The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept.

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

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.

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!

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage until you have succeeded in the Operation. More, unless you mean to perform it, and are prepared to go to any length to do so, you are a fool to have the book in your possession at all. Those squares are liable to get loose and do things on their own initiative; and you won't like it.

This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency.