I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.

Practically, Science is true; and Faith is foolish.

They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy which they honestly imagine to be moral indignation, patriotic passion or some equally allowable emotion, it may be an innocent Negro, a Jew like Leo Frank, a harmless half-witted German; a Christ-like idealist of the type of Debs, an enthusiastic reformer like Emma Goldman.

Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.

Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.

When you have proved that God is merely a name for the sex instinct, it appears to me not far to the perception that the sex instinct is God.