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.
Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.
To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.
Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith.
There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.
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.