There is a splendour in my name hidden and glorious, as the sun of midnight is ever the son.

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

In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.

There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: DO WHAT THOU WILT!

It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be done with it; or fulfil it, and get it out of the system; but do not allow it to remain there and putrefy. The suppression of the normal sex instinct, for example, is responsible for a thousand ills. In Puritan countries one inevitably finds a morbid preoccupation with sex coupled with every form of perversion and degeneracy.

This formula of Love is universal; all the laws of Nature are its servitors. Thus, gravitation, chemical affinity, electrical potential, and the rest - and these are alike mere aspects of the general law - are so many differently-observed statements of the unique tendency.

Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.