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

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.

All gods are one God, and all goddesses are one Goddess, and there is one Initiator.

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

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

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.