Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations

The average man cannot believe that an artist may be as serious and highminded an observer of life as the professed man of science.

Men and women are not free to love decently until they have analyzed themselves completely and swept away every mystery from sex; and this means the acquisition of a profound philosophical theory based on wide reading of anthropology and enlightened practice.

There is no part of me that is not of the Gods.

The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

The Quest of the Holy Grail, the Search for the Stone of the Philosophers-by whatever name we choose to call the Great Work-is therefore endless. Success only opens up new avenues of brilliant possibility.