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

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.

To knot a sentence up properly, it has to be thought out carefully, and revised. New phrases have to be put in; sudden changes of subject must be introducted; verbs must be shifted to unsuspected localities; short words must be excised with ruthless hand; archaisms must be sprinkled like sugar-plums upon the concoction; the fatal human tendency to say things straightforwardly must be detected and defeated by adroit reversals; and, if a glimmer of meaning yet remain under close scrutiny, it must be removed by replacing all the principal verbs by paraphrases in some dead language.

Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.

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.

Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!

We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.