I was not content to just believe in Satan. I wanted to be his chief or staff.

The Devil' is, historically, the God of any people that one personally dislikes... 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. He is 'The Devil' of the Book of Thoth, and His emblem is BAPHOMET, the Androgyne who is the hieroglyph of arcane perfection... He is therefore Life, and Love.

Every intentional act is a magical act.

We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.

I was asked to memorise what I did not understand; and, my memory being so good, it refused to be insulted in that manner.

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

Fortunately we have learnt to combine these ideas, not in the mutual toleration of sub-contraries, but in the affirmation of contraries, that transcending of the laws of intellect which is madness in the ordinary man, genius in the Overman who hath arrived to strike off more fetters from our understanding.