May the New Year bring you courage to break your resolutions early! My own plan is to swear off every kind of virtue, so that I triumph even when I fall!

The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept.

Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.

I cling unto the burning Æthyr like Lucifer that fell through the Abyss, and by the fury of his flight kindled the air. And I am Belial, for having seen the Rose upon thy breast, I have denied God. And I am Satan! I am Satan! I am cast out upon a burning crag! And the sea boils about the desolation thereof. And already the vultures gather, and feast upon my flesh.

It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.

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.

The man who denounces life merely defines himself as the man who is unequal to it.