MARSYAS: Beware! Easily trips the big word "dare."Each man's an Œdipus, that thinksHe hath the four powers of the Sphinx,Will, Courage, Knowledge, Silence. Son,Even the adepts scarce win to one!The Thoughts—they fall like rotten fruits.But to destroy the power that makesThese thoughts—thy Self? A man it takesTo tear his soul up by the roots!This is the mandrake fable, boy!
-Aleister Crowley
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