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

When we speak of the Path we mean much more than a course of study. The Path is a way of life and on it the whole being must co-operate if the heights are to be won.

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.

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

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.

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