" I am the old dragon, present everywhere on earth. I am father and mother, young and old, strong and weak, living and dead, visible and invisible, hard and soft, descending into earth and ascending into heaven, very big and very small, very light and very heavy. The order of nature often changes in me in color, number, weight, and measure. I contain natural light. I am clear and dark. I am known and I am nothing."
Basil Valentine from Azoth