Every intentional act is a magical act.

This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.

To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.

The student, if he attains any success in the following practices, will find himself confronted by things too glorious or dreadful to be described. It is essential that he remain the master of all he beholds, hears or conceives; otherwise he will be the slave of illusion, and the prey of madness.

To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression.

Happiness lies within one's self, and the way to dig it out is cocaine.

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