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

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.

The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.

Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.

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.

What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.