Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

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.

Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.

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.

The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.

Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self.

There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.