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

What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.

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

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

The supreme satisfaction is to be able to despise one's neighbor and this fact goes far to account for religious intolerance. It is evidently consoling to reflect that the people next door are headed for hell.

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

To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga.