The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

The most delicious sensation of all is the re-birth of healthy human love. Spring coming back to Earth!

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.

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.

It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.

He shall fall down into a pit called Because, and there he shall perish with the dogs of reason.

Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.