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

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

People think that talking is a sign of thinking. It isn't, for the most part' on the contrary, it's a mechanical dodge of the body to relieve oneself of the strain of thinking, just as exercising the muscles helps the body to become temporarily unconscious of its weight, its pain, its weariness, and the foreknowledge of its doom.

The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.

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.

The conscience of the world is so guilty that it always assumes that people who investigate heresies must be heretics; just as if a doctor who studies leprosy must be a leper. Indeed, it is only recently that science has been allowed to study anything without reproach.