Petr Uspensky

To hope to find in the world of causes anything logical from our standpoint is just as useless as to think that the world of things can exist in accordance with the laws of a world of shadows or stereometry according to the laws of …

The absurdity of both these propositions shows that they cannot refer to our world.

They are not the axioms of higher logic, they are merely attempts to express the axioms of this logic in concepts. In reality the ideas of higher logic are inexpressible in concepts.

The axioms which Tertium Organum embraces cannot be formulated in our language.

We know that with the very first awakening of knowledge, man is confronted with two obvious facts: The existence of the world in which he lives; and the existence of psychic life in himself. Neither of these can he prove or disprove, but …

Knowledge must start from some foundation, something must be recognized as known; otherwise we shall be obliged always to define one unknown by means of another.

The most difficult thing is to know what we do know, and what we do not know.

He knows that it is he who stands before an altar with magic symbols, and reaches from earth to heaven; that he also walks on a dusty road under a scorching sun to a precipice where a crocodile awaits him

And then I saw a man in terrible suffering, hung by one leg, head downward, to a high tree.

When I possessed the keys, read the book and understood the symbols, I was permitted to lift the curtain of the Temple and enter.

Learn to see it in thyself and thou wilt understand the infinite essence, hidden in all illusory forms. Understand that the world which thou knowest is only one of the aspects of the infinite world, and things and phenomena are merely …

An unexpected vision appeared to me. A circle not unlike a wreath woven from rainbow and lightnings, whirled from heaven to earth with a stupendous, velocity, blinding me by its brilliance.

The fool always carries them, although he has long since forgotten what they mean. Nevertheless they belong to him, even though he does not know their use.

And I saw another man. Tired and lame he dragged himself along the dusty road, across the deserted plain under the scorching rays of the sun.

With his hands he unites heaven and earth, and the four elements that form the world are controlled by him.

I saw myself reflected in him as in a mirror and in his eyes I seemed to look upon myself. And I heard a voice saying: —"Look, this is the Great Magician!

I Saw the Man. His figure reached from earth to heaven and was clad in a purple mantle.

In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.

Generally speaking, the significance of the indirect results may very often be of more importance than the significance of direct ones.