Quotes by Miguel Serrano

“The love talked and written about so much in novels, poetry and magazines, the love of ones neighbour, the universal love of the churches, love of humanity, has nothing whatsoever to do with loveless love, which is a harsh discipline, cold as ice, as cutting as a sword, and which aspires to overcome the human condition in order to reach the Kingdom of the Immortals.”

“For me Esoteric Hitlerism is being possessed by the archetypes of the collective unconscious which the Greeks used to call gods.”

“We believe that if the world doesnt go quickly to an end, it will be only because Hitlerism transformed itself into a new religious faith, able to change the materialistic man of today into a new idealistic hero where the beyond life is as important as life itself.”

As with men, it has always seemed to me that books have their own peculiar destinies. They go towards the people who are waiting for them and reach them at the right moment. They are made of living material and continue to cast light through the darkness long after the death of their authors.

Words are really a mask, he said. They rarely express the true meaning; in fact they tend to hide it. If you can live in fantasy, then you dont need religion, since with fantasy you can understand that after death, man is reincorporated in the Universe. Once again I will say that it is not important to know whether there is something beyond this life. What counts is having done the right sort of work; if that is right, then everything else will be all right. The Universe, or Nature, is for me what God is for others. It is wrong to think that Nature is the enemy of man, something to be conquered. Rather, we should look upon Nature as a mother, and should peaceably surrender ourselves to it. If we take that attitude, we will simply feel that we are returning to the Universe as all other things do, all animals and plants. We are all just infinitesimal parts of the Whole. It is absurd to rebel; we must deliver ourselves up to the great current....