Never ridicule or cast criticism upon the form of religion professed by another, for what right have we to desecrate what is sacred in another’s eyes?
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Study well that Great Arcanum, the proper equilibrium of mercy and severity, for either unbalanced is not good. Unbalanced severity is cruelty and oppression; unbalanced mercy is but weakness, and would permit evil to exist unchecked, thus making itself as it were the accomplice of evil.
— Excerpt from the Hierus’ Address to a new Neophyte
Grand Temple of Horus Behdety 