This will, I hope, be an ongoing series of quotations from Josephin Peladan’s How to become a Mage (Comment on devient Mage). Perhaps there is still a chance to form young men with a free mind, not stuck in useless propaganda hoary with age.

The art of life doesn’t consist in living large, but rather in living consciously.
L’art de la vie ne consiste pas a beaucoup vivre, mais a vivre consciemment. (p 151)

Love inseminates, that is, it awakens in us, multiple impressions, only by imagination and desire; it is therefore evil to do the carnal act, and the least is the best. For sensual pleasure is not in the spasm, but in the prior excitable progression.

L’amour ne feconde, c’est-a-dire n’eveille en nous de multiples impressions, que par l’imagination et le desir ; il est donc mauvais de perpetrer l’oeuvre de chair, et le moins c’est le mieux. Car la volupte n’est pas dans le spasme, mais dans la progression nerveuse anterieure. (p 111)