If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil.

Fear is nothing but idleness of the will.

Order is never observed; it is disorder which attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.

Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings.

Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith.