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

All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.

The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.

Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.

One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.

Fear is nothing but idleness of the will.