I have been accused of being a ‘black magician.’ No more foolish statement was ever made about me. I despise the thing to such an extent that I can hardly believe in the existence of people so debased and idiotic as to practice it.

I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul

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.

Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.

Magick is the Art of Life itself.

There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing.

Anything which throws light upon the Universe, anything which reveals us to ourselves, should be welcome in this world of riddles.