Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.

Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations

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.

You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage until you have succeeded in the Operation. More, unless you mean to perform it, and are prepared to go to any length to do so, you are a fool to have the book in your possession at all. Those squares are liable to get loose and do things on their own initiative; and you won't like it.

It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.

Magick is the Science of understanding oneself and one's conditions. It is the Art of applying that understanding in action.