Making Personality Passive (Nicoll)

 

from Psychological Commentaries on the Teaching of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky Vol. 3 (Maurice Nicoll) p. 878

Solve et Coagula (Crowley)

There are only two operations possible in the Universe: Analysis and Synthesis. To divide, and to unite. Solve et coagula, said the Alchemists. If anything is to be changed, either one must divide one object into two parts or add another unit to it. This principle lies at the basis of all scientific thought.

-- Crowley, from The Book of Thoth