Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!
All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed.
Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.
Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan.
A madhouse of frenzied moneymaking and frenzied pleasure-seeking, with none of the corners chipped off. It is beautifully situatedand the air reminds one curiously of Edinburgh.
Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.
The old spelling MAGICK has been adopted throughout in order to distinguish the Science of the Magi from all its counterfeits.
Acts which are essentially dishonourable must not be done; they would be justified only by calm contemplation of their correctness in abstract cases.
Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one’s neighbor is superior to oneself.
I am alone. There is no God where I am.
How right politicians are to look upon their constituents as cattle! Anyone who has any experience of dealing with any class as such knows the futility of appealing to intelligence, indeed to any other qualities than those of brutes.
Black magic is not a myth. It is a totally unscientific and emotional form of magic, but it does get results – of an extremely temporary nature.
Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.
There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.
There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.
Sanity is a compromise.
For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.
It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one’s environment.
Don’t talk for five minutes, there’s a good chap! I’ve a strange feeling come over me – almost as if I were going to think!
30. If Will stops and cries Why, invoking Because, then Will stops an does naught. 31. If power asks why, then power is weakness.