It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
The sin which is unpardonable is knowingly and wilfully to reject truth, to fear knowledge lest that knowledge pander not to thy prejudices.
If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.
A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.
The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn’t pay to tell him so.
Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.
Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.
The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.
I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it.
Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one’s conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.
Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man’s brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn’t understand you at all.
Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self.
What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein.
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.
Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It’s worth it.
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
Every man and every woman is a star.