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

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.

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

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

The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and the Gnostics...Its studies were only kept alive during the Dark Ages among the Jews who were the chief exponents of its Cabalistic aspect...and it is still alive today.

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