Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Do not imagine that art or anything else is other than high magic! - is a system of holy hieroglyph. The artist, the initiate, thus frames his mysteries. The rest of the world scoff, or seek to understand, or pretend to understand; some few obtain the truth.
Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!
Oh, how superior is the Eye of Horus to the Mouth of Isis!
The intention of this Book of The Law is perfectly simple. Whatever your sexual predilections may be, you are free, by the Law of Thelema, to the the star you are, to go your own way rejoicing.
I cling unto the burning Æthyr like Lucifer that fell through the Abyss, and by the fury of his flight kindled the air. And I am Belial, for having seen the Rose upon thy breast, I have denied God. And I am Satan! I am Satan! I am cast out upon a burning crag! And the sea boils about the desolation thereof. And already the vultures gather, and feast upon my flesh.
Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately, and interpret intelligently; in which case we shall be unable to outwit and outfight them.
The pious pretense that evil does not exist only makes it vague, enormous and menacing.
Further, an excess of legislation defeats its own ends. It makes the whole population criminals, and turns them all into police and police spies. The moral health of such a people is ruined for ever; only revolution can save it.
I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.
Unspeakable is the variety of form and immeasurable the diversity of beauty, but in all is the seal of unity.
Sit still. Stop thinking. Shut up. Get out! The first two of these instructions comprise the whole of the technique of Yoga. The last two are of a sublimity which it would be improper to expound in this present elementary stage.
Modern morality and manners suppress all natural instincts, keep people ignorant of the facts of nature and make them fighting drunk on bogey tales.
I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.
Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty.
The Holy Guardian Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept.
Every incarnation that we remember must increase our comprehension of ourselves as who we are.
To use legal or financial constraint to compel either abstention or submission, is entirely horrible, unnatural and absurd.
Man has the right . . . to play as he will . . . to think what he will: to speak what he will: to write what he will: to draw, paint, carve, etch, mould, build as he will: to dress as he will.
I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?
I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my soul
For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.
A burnt child dreads the fire.
There is no part of me that is not of the Gods.
Indubitably, magic is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgment and practice than in any other branch of physics.
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