And straight I knew him for the mystic one
That is the brother, born of human dream,
Of man rebellious at an unknown rod;
The minds ideal, and the spirit’s sun;
A column of clear flame, in lands extreme,
Set opposite the darkness that is God.

Clark Ashton Smith, A Vision of Lucifer

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For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.

Austin Osman Spare (via rosesandmore)