What is necessary is not to seek after some fantastic ideal, utterly unsuited to our real needs, but to discover the true nature of those needs, to fulfill them, and rejoice therein.

Love is the law, love under will.

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.

The True Will is thus both determined by its equations, and free because those equation are simply its own name, spelt out fully.

Magic is real. And reality... it is magical.

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 more necessary anything appears to my mind, the most certain it is that I only assert a limitation.