The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade ‘Know Thyself!’ and taught Initiation.
We place no reliance On virgin or pigeon; Our Method is Science, Our Aim is Religion.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
Invoke often! Inflame thyself with prayer!
The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!
The people who have really made history are the martyrs.
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
I’m a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.
The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.
Every intentional act is a magical act.
It’s no good trying to teach people who need to be taught.
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.