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

There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing.

Every one interprets everything in terms of his own experience. If you say anything which does not touch a precisely similar spot in another man's brain, he either misunderstands you, or doesn't understand you at all.

A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.

But neither Europe nor Africa can show any such desolation as America. The proudest, stubbornest, bitterest peasant of deserted Spain, the most primitive and superstitious Arab of the remotest oases, are a little more than kin and never less than kind at their worst; whereas in the United States one is almost always conscious of an instinctive lack of sympathy and understanding with even the most charming and cultured people.