“Man has to pick up the use of his functions as he goes along- especially the function of Love.”

“Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light.”

“a samurai is a total human being, whereas a man who is completely absorbed in his technical skill has degenerated into a ‘function’, one cog in a machine.”

“For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.”

“The especial genius of women I believe to be electrical in movement, intuitive in function, spiritual in tendency.”

“Function and man appear synonymous because the function can only be pointed toward by being the function. There is no being except in a mode of being. [...] Both scholar and Christian are functioning in identical ways, just under different metaphor, and both are evading the mechanics of being.”