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.

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

There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.

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

To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making faculty, is a very important part of our mental functioning. An image formed by the imagination is a reality from the point of view of psychology; it is quite true that it has no physical existence, but are we going to limit reality to that which is material? We shall be far out of our reckoning if we do, for mental images are potent things, and although they do not actually exist on the physical plane, they influence it far more than most people suspect.

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.

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