It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

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

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

Every man and every woman is a star.

In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them.

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.