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

Their false compassion is called compassion and their false understanding is called understanding, for this is their most potent spell.

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)

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

When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual.

It is necessary that we stop, once for all, this ignorant meddling with other people's business. Each individual must be left free to follow his own path.

One must find out for oneself, and make sure beyond doubt, 'who' one is, 'what' one is, 'why' one is... Being thus conscious of the proper course to pursue, the next thing is to understand the conditions necessary to following it out. After that, one must eliminate from oneself every element alien or hostile to success, and develop those parts of oneself which are specially needed to control the aforesaid conditions.