Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers.

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

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

We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do not perceive at all, though we may be profoundly affected by them.

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

The man who is an initiate of one of the great Mystery Schools never fears to let his pupils outdistance him, because he knows that it stands him in good stead with his superiors if he is constantly sending up to them aspirants who 'make good.' He therefore never tries to hold back a promising pupil, because he has no need to fear that pupil, if allowed to penetrate into the Mysteries, would spy out the nakedness of the land; he will rather bring back a report of its exceeding richness, and thereby confirm the statements of his teacher and spur his fellow pupils to yet greater eagerness.