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.

Don't talk for five minutes, there's a good chap! I've a strange feeling come over me--almost as if I were going to think!

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

A man who is doing his True Will has the inertia of the Universe to assist him.

Since all things are God, in all things thou seest just so much of God as thy capacity affordeth thee.

I've written this to keep from crying. But I am crying, only the tears won't come.

Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth.