Death is the great Teacher, stern, cold, inexorable, irresistible; whom the collected might of the world cannot stay or ward off.

Albert Pike, Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

After Hieronymus Bosch
Saint Anthony (?), circa 1550

Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.

Aleister Crowley