The most important truths always appear first as blasphemies or obscenities. That's why every great innovator is persecuted. And the sacraments look obscene, too, to an outsider. The eucharist is just sublimated cannibalism, to the unawakened. When the Pope kisses the feet of the laity, he looks like an old toe-queen to some people. The rites of Pan look like a suburban orgy.

There's a seeker born every minute.

The path up is the path down. The way forward is the way back. The universe inside is outside but the universe outside is inside.

If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.

Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can fully grasp its abstractedness, especially in the computer age, it becomes quite clear that no group can monopolize this abstraction, except through a series of swindle. If the usurers had been bolder, they might have monopolized language as well as currency, and people would be saying we can't write more books because we don't have enough words, the way they now say we can't build starships, because we don't have enough money.

An Enlightened Master is ideal only if your goal is to become a Benighted Slave.

Magick has many aspects, but primarily it acts as a dramatized system of “psychology