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

Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.

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.

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

The Placer is an enemy who must necessarily become our lord or our slave; one doesn't enjoy if it's not defeated.

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.

To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.