There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The Supreme and Complete Ritual is therefore the Invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel; or, in the language of Mysticism, Union with God.
The Gods are but names for the forces of Nature themselves.
Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with will.
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
Every man and every woman is a star.
There are no "standards of Right". Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with "moral principle"; there is no such thing.
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
Intolerance is evidence of impotence.
To train the mind to move with the maximum speed and energy, with the utmost possible accuracy in the chosen direction, and with the minimum of disturbance or friction. That is Magick. To stop the mind altogether. That is Yoga.
Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.
The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.
I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.
This Universe is a wild revel of atoms, men, and stars, each one a Soul of Light and Mirth, horsed on Eternity.
A single ego is an absurdly narrow vantage point from which to view the world.
We must conquer life by living it to the full, and then we can go to meet death with a certain prestige.
Ever man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.
This serpent, SATAN, is not the enemy of Man, but He who made Gods of our race, knowing Good and Evil; He bade 'Know Thyself!' and taught Initiation.
To me, every dirty act was simply a sacrament of sin, a passionately religious protest against Christianity, which was for me the symbol of all vileness, meanness, treachery, falsehood and oppression.
A white male child of perfect innocence and intelligence makes the most suitable victim.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
The ordinary man looking at a mountain is like an illiterate person confronted with a Greek manuscript.
She knew that she belonged to this man, body and soul. Every trace of shame departed; it was burnt out by the fire that consumed her. She gave him a thousand opportunities; she fought to turn his words to serious things. He baffled her with his shallow smile and ready tongue, that twisted all topics to triviality. By six o'clock she was morally on her knees before him; she was imploring him to stay to dinner with her. He refused.
I slept with faith and found a corpse in my arms on awakening; I drank and danced all night with doubt and found her a virgin in the morning.
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