I’ve written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won’t come.
This complaining rambling rubbish is the substitute which has taken the place of love.
I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.
What the eye doesn’t see, the heart doesn’t grieve over.
Love is the law, love under will.
A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.
Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.
I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered – now I have only one doubt left – which of the twain was God?
The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.
Ever man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease – that of thinking.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.
There is no part of me that is not of the Gods.
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.