Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

Alas the Master; so he sinks in death. But whoso knows the mystery of man Sees life and death as curves of the same plan

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

I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?

The word of Sin is Restriction

May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

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.