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.

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 best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

Love is the law, love under will.

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!

To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression.