One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.

Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers.

We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do not perceive at all, though we may be profoundly affected by them.

The Door Without a Key is the Door of Dreams; it is the door by which the sensitive escape into insanity when life is too hard for them, and artists use it as a window in a watch-tower. Psychologists call it a psychological mechanism; magicians call it magic, and the man in the street calls it illusion or charlatanry according to taste. It does not matter to me what it is called, for it is effectual.

What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness.

The driving forces of the universe, the framework upon which it is built up in all its parts, belong to another phase of manifestation than our physical plane, having other dimensions than the three to which we are habituated, and perceived by other modes of consciousness than those to which we are accustomed.

One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.