...the sole test of music is its power to exalt the soul. - Aleister Crowley

Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.

If Osiris, Christ, and Mahomet were mad, then indeed is madness the key to the door of the Temple.

Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.