And thus, son of the worm, we part! All that I can tell thee to encourage, yet to warn and to guide, I have told thee in these lines.

Not from me, from thyself has come the gloomy trial from which I yet trust thou wilt emerge into peace.

Type of the knowledge that I serve, I withhold no lesson from the pure aspirant; I am a dark enigma to the general seeker.
As man's only indestructible possession is his memory, so it is not in mine art to crumble into matter the immaterial thoughts that have sprung up within thy breast.

The tyro might shatter this castle to the dust, and topple down the mountain to the plain.

The master has no power to say, 'Exist no more,' to one THOUGHT that his knowledge has inspired.
Thou mayst change the thoughts into new forms; thou mayst rarefy and sublimate it into a finer spirit,--but thou canst not annihilate that which has no home but in the memory, no substance but the idea.