I am certainly of opinion that genius can be acquired, or, in the alternative, that it is an almost universal possession.

The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

The priestess of Artemis took hold of her almost with the violence of a lover, and whisked her away into a languid ecstasy of reverie. She communicated her own enthusiasm to the girl, and kept her mind occupied with dreams, faery-fervid, of uncharted seas of glory on which her galleon might sail, undiscovered countries of spice and sweetness, Eldorado and Utopia and the City of God.

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

I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.

I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.

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