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.

Do you believe in an invisible reality behind appearances?

In varying degrees and and upon different levels all gods and goddesses represent aspects of One God Which is both 'male' and 'female'.

There is no essential difference between sticking pins into a wax image of an enemy and burning candles in front of a wax image of the Virgin. You may think that both these practices are gross superstition, but you can hardly think that one is real and potent and deny reality and potency to the other.

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.

The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and the Gnostics...Its studies were only kept alive during the Dark Ages among the Jews who were the chief exponents of its Cabalistic aspect...and it is still alive today.

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