Do you believe in an invisible reality behind appearances?

The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.

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

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.

The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony as between Good and Evil, but only balance between two extremes, each of which is evil when carried to excess, both of which give rise to evil if insufficient for equipoise.

Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.

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