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 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.

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.

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

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.

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 spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.