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

The best models of English writing are Shakespeare and the Old Testament.

Initiation means the Journey Inwards: nothing is changed or can be changed; but all is trulier understood with every step.

There are hardly half a dozen writers in England today who have not sold out to the enemy. Even when their good work has been a success, Mammon grips them and whispers: More money for more work.

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!

We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.

Must not understanding lie open unto wisdom as the pyramids lie open to the stars? (6:2)