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“Matter is essentially multiplicity and division; and this, be it said in passing, is why all that proceeds from matter can beget only strife and all manner of conflicts between peoples and between individuals. The deeper one sinks into matter, the more the elements of division and opposition gain force and scope; and, on the other hand, the more one rises towards pure spirituality, the nearer one approaches to that unity which can only be fully realized by consciousness of the universal principles.”

Source: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 50

“It is, however, only in the nineteenth century that one sees men beginning to glory in their ignorance—for to proclaim oneself an agnostic means nothing else—and claiming to forbid others any knowledge to which they themselves have no access; and this marked one stage further in the intellectual decline of the West.”

Source: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 59

“The truth is that there is really no "profane realm" that could in any way be opposed to a "sacred realm"; there is only a "profane point of view", which is really none other than the point of view of ignorance.”

Initiation et réalisation spirituelle (Initiation And Spiritual Realization) (1952)

“There can be only one way out of the chaos, in the social domain as in all others: the restoration of intellectuality, which would result in the formation once more of an elect.”

Source: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 99

“A philosopher's renown is increased more by inventing a new error than by repeating a truth that has already been expressed by others.”

Source: The Crisis of the Modern World (1927), p. 56

“From the social point of view as from all others, instability is as it were at its maximum, disorder and confusion are everywhere, and humanity has surely never been further from the 'Terrestrial Paradise' and from primordial spirituality.”

Source: Spiritual Authority and Temporal Power (1929), pp. 77–78