Are you troubled by the many faiths that Mankind professes? Are you lost in the valley of conflicting beliefs? Do you think that the freedom of heresy is less burdensome than the yoke of submission, and the liberty of dissent safer than the stronghold of acquiescence?
If such be the case, then make Beauty your religion, and worship her as your godhead; for she is the visible, manifest and prfect handiwork of God. Cast off those who have toyed with godliness as if it were a sham, joining together greed and arrogrance; but believe instead in the divinity of beauty that is at once the beginning of your worship of Life, and the source of your hunger for Happiness.
Do penance before Beauty, and atone for your sins, for Beauty brings your heart closer to the throne of woman, who is the mirror of your affections and the teacher of your heart in the ways of Nature, which is your life's home.WM-ST-33
Only our spirits can understand beauty, or live and grow with it. It puzzles our minds; we are unable to describe it in words; it is a sensation that our eyes cannot see, derived from both the one who observes and the one who is looked upon. Real beauty is a ray which emanates from teh holy of holies of the spirit, and illuminates the body, as life comes from the depths of the earth and gives color and scent to a flower. BW-ST-34.
beauty is that harmony between joy and sorrow which begins in our holy of holies and ends beyond the scope of our imagination. KG-P-93
Life takes us up and bears us from one place to another; Fate moves us from one point to another. And we, caught up between these twain, hear dreadful voices and see only that which stands as a hindrance and obstacle in our path. WM-ST-46
Dying for Freedom is nobleer than living in
The shadow ofweak submission, for
He who embraces death with the sword
Of Truth in his hand will eternalizse
With the Eternity of Truth, for Life
Is weaker than Death and Death is
Weaker than Truth.SHT-342
The free on earth builds of his strife
A prison for his own duress,
When he is freed from his own kin,
Is slave to thought and love's caress.
Life without Freedom is like a body without a soul, and Freedom without Thought is like a confused spirit... Life, Freedom and Thought are three-in-one, and are everlasting and never pass away. TM-ST-62
Freedom bids us to her table where we may partake of her savory food and rich wine; but when we sit down at her board, we eat ravenously and glut ourselves.WM-ST-47
You may chain my hands and shackle my feet; you may even throw me into a dark prison, but you shall not enslave my thinking because it is free.S