Inevitably anyone with an independent mind must become 'one who resists or opposes authority or established conventions': a rebel. If enough people come to agree with, and follow, the Rebel, we now have a Devil. Until, of course, still more people agree. And then, finally, we have --- Greatness.

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

In every Magical, or similar system, it is invariably the first condition which the Aspirant must fulfill: he must once and for all and for ever put his family outside his magical circle.Even the Gospels insist clearly and weightily on this.Christ himself (i.e. whoever is meant by this name in this passage) callously disowns his mother and his brethren (Luke VIII, 19). And he repeatedly makes discipleship contingent on the total renunciation of all family ties. He would not even allow a man to attend his father's funeral!Is the magical tradition less rigid?Not on your life!

The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.

Sex is the sacred song of the soul; Sex is the sanctuary of Self.

The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.

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