A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.

Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.

What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.

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

Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

Astrology has no more useful function than this, to discover the inmost nature of a man and to bring it out into his consciousness, that he may fulfil it according to the law of light.