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

This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

I'm a poet, and I like my lies the way my mother used to make them.

Genuine recollections almost invariably explain oneself to oneself. Suppose, for example, that you feel an instinctive aversion to some particular kind of wine. Try as you will, you can find no reason for it. Suppose when you explore a previous incarnation, you remember you died by a poisoned administered in a wine of that kind, your aversion is explained by the proverb: 'A burnt child dreads the fire.'

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.