Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
Balance every thought with its opposition. Because the marriage of them is the destruction of illusion.
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept.
Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.
Repeal all laws which assume that mankind is a herd of cattle.
You can only accomplish your object in life by complete disregard of the opinions of other people.
Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!
I’ve often thought that there isn’t any “I” at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.
The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!
I do not want to father a flock, to be the fetish of fools and fanatics or the founder of a faith whose followers are content to echo my opinions. I want each man to cut his own way through the jungle.
The word of Sin is Restriction.
To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga.
I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul.
It will be seen that the formula – ‘Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law’ has nothing to do with ‘Do as you please.’ It is much more difficult to comply with the Law of Thelema than to follow out slavishly a set of dead regulations.
May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early!
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.