"I sacrifice to no god save myself — And to my belly, greatest of deities."

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"A zealous soul without meekness is like a ship in a storm, in danger of wrecks. A meek soul without zeal, is like a ship in a calm, that moves not so fast as it ought."

— John M. Mason

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"Religions have always imputed the good to the active and the evil to the passive side. But fundamentally spoken, there are no such things as good or bad; they are nothing but human conceptions. In the…"

— Franz Bardon

alternative medicine1909–1958

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