Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.

Your kiss is bitter with cocaine.

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.

If you examine the highest poetry in the light of common sense, you can only say that it is rubbish; and in actual fact you cannot so examine it at all, because there is something in poetry which is not in the words themselves, which is not in the images suggested by the words 'O windy star blown sideways up the sky!' True poetry is itself a magic spell which is a key to the ineffable.

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

I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.