If one were to take the bible seriously one would go mad. But to take the bible seriously, one must be already mad.

I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.

For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Truth! Truth! Truth! crieth the Lord of the Abyss of Hallucinations

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

The greatest, like Rembrandt, paint a gallant, a hag, and a carcass with equal passion and rapture; they love the truth as it is. They do not admit that anything can be ugly or evil; its existence justifies itself. This is because they know themselves to be part of an harmonious unity; to disdain any item of it would be to blaspheme the whole. The Thelemite is able to revel in any experience soever; in each he recognizes the tokens of ultimate Truth. It is surely obvious, even intellectually, that all phenomena are interdependent, and therefore involve each other.