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  2. Ah! would that we could at once paint with the eyes!

  3. All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature.

  4. All life in this world belongs to the former, the unchanging element belongs to the latter.

  5. All things have darkness at their back and strive towards the light, and the flowing power gives them harmony.

  6. And God said, Let there be light, and there was light.

  7. And hark! how blithe the thristle sings!

  8. And she will open wide before thee the portals of her secret chambers, lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

  9. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

 10. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

 11. Art comes to you posing frankly to give nothing but the highest quality to your moments as they pass.

 12. Art does not reproduce the visible; rather it makes it visible.

 13. Art is a human activity having for its purpose the transmission to others of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.

 14. Art is a lie that makes us realize truth....The eternal vital power builds them in the likeness of older worlds, placing them on the Imperishable Centres.

 15. Art is a man's nature; nature is God's art. All art does but consist in the removal of surplusage. Art is not a thing; it is a way. A work of art is a corner of creation seen through a temperament.

 16. Art is difficult, transient is her reward.

 17. Art is like a border of flowers along the course of civilization.

 18. Art is living.

 19. Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude.

 20. Art is the effort of man to express the ideas which nature suggests to him of a power above nature, whether that power be within the recesses of his own being, or in the Great First Cause of which nature, like himself, is but the effect.... a first cause, eternal, all-wise, almighty and holy, is the origin and the centre of the whole universe, from whom gradually all beings emanated.

 21. Art is the great stimulus to life.

 22. Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men. Art is more godlike than science. Science discovers; art creates.

 23. Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.

 24. Art is unquestionably one of the purest and highest elements in human happiness.

 25. Art, as far as it is able, follows nature, as a pupil imitates his master; thus your art must be, as it were, God's grandchild.

 26. As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So from The Eternal arises everything here.

 27. As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.

 28. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousand times worse than nothing.

 29. Before God manifested Himself, when all things were still hidden in Him...He began by forming an imperceptible point; that was His own thought.

 30. Before the visible universe was formed its mold was cast.

 31. Beholding the Archetypes, the Supreme Mind become enamored with Its own thought; so, taking the Word as a mighty hammer, It gouged out caverns in primordial space and cast the form of the spheres in the Archetypical mold, at the same time sowing in the newly fashioned bodies the seeds of living things.

 32. But there is nothing, whatsoever it be, that is not according to nature. Now nature is not at variance with art, nor art with nature, they being both servants of his providence: art is the perfection of nature; were the world now as it was the sixth day, there were yet a chaos; nature hath made one world, and art another.

 33. But when the Creative acts upon the Receptive, itsenergy is gathered up and set to work.

 34. Casteth he his eye towards the clouds, findeth he not the heavens full of his wonders? looketh he down to the earth, doth not the worm proclaim "Less than omnipotence could not have formed me!"In the beginning the Golden Embryo arose.

 35. Comprehend this great wisdom, under-stand this knowledge, inquire into it and ponder on it, render it evident and lead the Creator back to His throne again.

 36. Darkness radiates light, and light drops one solitary ray into the mother-deep.

 37. Emanation is the Resulting displayed from the Unresulting, the Finite from the Infinite, the Manifold and Composite from the Perfect Single and Simple, Potentiality from the which is Infinite Power and Act, the mobile from that which is perennially permanent; and therefore in a more imperfect and diminished mode than His Infinite Perfection is.

 38. Every sphere of energy needs to receive the stimulus of an influx of energy at higher pressure, and to have an output into a sphere of lower pressure.

 39. Everything is created and conducted by the same Master: the root, the branch, the fruits - the principles, the consequences.

 40. Father-Mother spin a web whose upper end is fastened to spirit - the light of the one darkness - and the lower one to its shadowy end, matter; and this web is the universe spun out of the two substances made in one... The decade of existence out of nothing has its end linked to its beginning and its beginning linked to its end, just as the flame is wedded to the live coal; because the Lord is one and there is not a second one, and before one what wilt thou could? In wisdom and understanding we have the archetypal Positive and Negative, the primordial Maleness and Femaleness, established while "countenance beheld not countenance" and manifestation was incipient.

 41. First was manifested from the Deep (Chaos) cold luminous fire (gaseous light?) which formed the curds in Space. (Irresolvable nebulae, perhaps?)...These fought, and a great heat was developed by the encountering and colision, which produced rotation.

 42. For Art is Nature made by man To Man the interpreter of God.

 43. For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

 44. For what has made the sage or poet write But the fair paradise of Nature's light.

 45. From the ONE LIFE formless and Uncreate, proceeds the Universe of lives.

 46. From the spirit of the living God emanated air, from the air, water, from the water, fire or ether, from the ether, the height and the depth, the East and West, the North and South.

 47. God has made all things out of nothing: because...even though the world has been made of some material, that very same material has been made out of nothing.

 48. Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

 49. He held in place the earth and this sky.

 50. He makes balls of fire, runs through them, and round them, infusing life thereinto, then sets them into motion; some one way, some the other way. They are cold, he makes them hot. They are dry, he makes them moist. They shine, he fans and cools them. Thus he acts from one twilight to the other, during Seven Eternities.

 51. He who gives life, who gives strength, whose command all the gods, his own, obey; his shadow is immortal-ity - and death.

 52. He, too, is no mean preacher: Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.

 53. Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators and make obeisance.

 54. How does he build them? He collects the fiery dust.

 55. In brief, all things are artificial; for nature is the art of God. Nature imitates herself.

 56. In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.

 57. In order for a creation to be possible there must first be acontraction, a concentration of all energies at a center.

 58. In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth.

 59. In the long way, from the eye, through the arm to the pencil, how much is lost!

 60. In those vernal seasons of the year when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against nature not to go out and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.

 61. It is called the subtle and profound female. The gate of the subtle and profound female Is the root of Heaven and Earth.

 62. It is continuous, and seems to be always existing.

 63. It is from these primary Pairs of Opposites that the Pillars of the Universe spring, between which is woven the web of Manifestation.

 64. It trains the mind through the eye, and the eye through the mind.

 65. Let us permit nature to have her way; she understands her business better than we do.

 66. Light is the first of painters.

 67. Man's rich with little, were his judgement true; Nature is frugal, and her wants are few; These few wants answer'd bring sincere delights; But fools create themselves new appetites.

 68. Nature abhors annihilation.

 69. Nature goes on her way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.

 70. Nature has no principles.

 71. Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.'Tis to create, and in creating live A being more intense, that we endow With form our fancy, gaining as we give The life we image.

 72. Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same.

 73. Nature is but a name for an effect whose cause is God.

 74. Nature is the glass reflecting God, as by the sea reflected is the sun, too glorious to be gazed on in his sphere.

 75. Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

 76. Nature never breaks her own laws. The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection. When one is painting one does not think. We call that against nature which cometh against custom.

 77. Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

 78. Nature pleases, attracts, delights, merely because it is nature.

 79. Nature too unkind; That made no medicine for a troubled mind!

 80. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

 81. Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies.

 82. Nature, red in tooth and claw.

 83. Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed.

 84. Nothing is rich but the inexhaustible wealth of nature. She shows us only surfaces, but she is million fathoms deep.

 85. Nothing which we can imagine about Nature is incredible. The perfection of art is to conceal art. Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.

 86. Once he was born, he was the one lord of creation.

 87. Once, when the days were ages, And the old Earth was young, The high gods and the sages From Nature's golden pages Her open secrets wrung.

 88. Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks. A picture is a poem without words.

 89. Polarity is the principle that runs through the whole of creation, and is, in fact, the basis of manifestation.

 90. Polarity really means the flowing of force from a sphere of high pressure to a sphere of low pressure; high and low being always relative terms.

 91. Rather, it was the circle, traversed by the point.

 92. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected.

 93. Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, But looks through Nature up to Nature's God.

 94. Surely God causes the seed and the stone to sprout; He brings forth the living from the dead, and He is the bringer forth of the dead from the living.

 95. Surely there is something in the unruffled calm of nature that overawes our little anxieties and doubts: the sight of the deep-blue sky, and the clustering stars above, seem to impart a quiet in the mind.

 96. Ten are the numbers out of nothing, and not the number nine,ten and not eleven.

 97. The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

 98. The appearance of the ten spheres out of manifestation is like a flash of lightning, being with out an end, His word is in them, when they go and return; they run by His order like a whirlwind and humble themselves before His throne.

 99. The cosmos comes forth from The Eternal, and moves In Him.

100. The counterfeit and counterpart Of Nature reproduced in art.

101. The Creative is pure energy, limitless and tireless, but incapable of doing anything except radiate off into space if left to its own devices.

102. The Creative knows the great beginnings.

103. THE CREATIVE works sublime success, Furthering through perseverance.

104. The Creative, in a state of rest, is one, and in a state of motion it is straight;therefore it creates that which is great.

105. The darkness below, receiving the hammer of the Word, was fashioned into an orderly universe.

106. The double law of attraction and radiation or of sympathy and antipathy, of fixedness and movement, which is the principle of Creation, and the perpetual cause of life.

107. The Eternal generates the One. The One generates the Two. The Two generates the Three. The Three generates all things.

108. The highest problem of any art is to cause by appearance the illusion of a higher reality.

109. The ideal should never touch the real; When nature conquers, Art must then give way.

110. The last vibration of the seventh eternity thrills through infinitude.

111. The man, who has seen the rising moon break out of the clouds at midnight, has been present like an archangel at the creation of light and of the world.

112. The mother swells, expanding from within without, like the bud of the lotus.

113. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; The Named is the mother of all things. Therefore let there always be non-being so we may see their subtlety, And let there always be being so we may see their outcome. The two are the same, But after they are produced, they have different names. They both may be called deep and profound. Deeper and more profound, The door of all subtleties!

114. The object of art is to crystallize emotion into thought, and then fix it in form.

115. The ordinary true, or purely real, cannot be the object of the arts. - Illusion on a ground of truth, that is the secret of the fine arts.

116. The point appeared in the circle, yet wasn't.

117. The process of creation never stops, although, on a plane-tary scale, growth proceeds so slowly that if we reckon it in our time planetary conditions can be regarded as permanent for us.

118. The pure impulse of dynamic creation is formless; and being formless, the creation it gives rise to can assume any and every form.

119. The ray causes the eternal egg to thrill, and drop the non-eternal germ, which condenses into the world-egg...

120. The ray shoots through the virgin egg.

121. The Receptive completes the finished things.

122. The Receptive is all-potential, but inert.

123. The Receptive is closed in a state of rest, and in a state of motion it opens; therefore it creates that which is vast.

124. The soil, in return for her service, keeps the tree tied to her; the sky asks nothing and leaves it free.

125. The source of all energy is the Great Unmanifest,and it makes its own way down the levels, changing its form from one to the other, till it is finally "earthed" in matter.

126. The spirit of the valley never dies.

127. The vibration sweeps along, touching with its swift wing the whole universe and the germ that dwelleth in dark-ness: the darkness that breathes over the slumbering waters of life...

128. The whole world I said is His imagination, then I saw: His imagination is Himself.

129. Then came the first manifested MATERIAL...All beings return at the close of every cosmic cycle into the realm of Nature, which is a part of Me, and at the beginning of the next I send them forth again.

130. Then, an expansion must occur; the gathered energies must be sent forth in concentrated form as a ray or beam of energy.

131. There are two aspects in Nature: the perishable and the imperishable.

132. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

133. There is nothing but art.

134. These are the ten spheres of existence out of nothing.

135. This is the truth: As from a fire a flame thousands of sparks come forth, even so from the Creator an infinity of beings have life and to him return again.

136. This mold was called the Archetype, and the Archetype was inthe Supreme Mind long before the process of creation began.

137. Those who realize Him pass beyond the sway of death.

138. Thought, speech and action are an inseparable unity in the divine being.

139. To attempt to give an object of art life by dwelling on its historical, cultural, or archaeological association is senseless.

140. To one who has completed the circle, the point exists on the circumference.

141. Use it and you will never wear it out.

142. We recognize in it an Infinite Power.

143. What is art? Nature concentrated.

144. What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining, elusive element which is life itself.

145. Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent.

146. When the Receptive receives the impulse of the Creative, all her latent capacities are energized.

147. With His power it reverberates,Like thunder crashing in the sky.

148. With the help of Nature, again and again I pour forth the whole multitude of beings, whether they will or no, for they are ruled by My Will.

149. With this thought He then began to construct a mysterious and holy form...the Universe.

150. Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.