What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A ritual lodge is no place for the well-meaning ineffectual.

The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence.

The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet—medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in critical cases there is no time to wait for the slow processes of dietetics, so it must be either medicines or nothing. Nevertheless, drugs are no substitute for right diet and wholesome regime, and although magic enables a speedy and potent result to be attained, is is only by means of right understanding and right ethics that the position which has been won can be held.

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.

I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives and right associates.