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.
Imagine listening to Beethoven with the prepossession that C is a good note and F a bad one; yet this is exactly the stand point from which all uninitiates contemplate the universe. Obviously, they miss the music.
By the power of truth, I, while living, have conquered the universe.
Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.
When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.
Magick is the Art of Life itself.
When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one’s physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual.
The absolute rule of the state shall be a function of the absolute liberty of each individual will.
All questions of the Law are to be decided only by appeal to my writings, each for himself.
I believe in one Gnostic and Catholic Church of Light, Life, Love and Liberty, the Word of whose Law is THELEMA .
I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.
I have never grown out of the infantile belief that the universe was made for me to suck.
It is only necessary to destroy in oneself the roots of those motives which determine a man’s course, in order to enjoy the omnipotence and immunity of a god.
Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.
There are no “standards of Right”. Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with “moral principle”; there is no such thing.
We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.
The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.