Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.

In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed—in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.

There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.

Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear YOU. Say to suffering, 'I will that you shall become a pleasure,' and it will prove to be such-- and even more than a pleasure, it will be a blessing.

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

Judge not; speak hardly at all; love and act.

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