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

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

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.

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

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.

The automatic mind of the patient, the lowest level of subconsciousness which controls the etheric double, is manipulated and is the vehicle of the healing.

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