Love is the only principle which makes life tolerable.
I believe in one secret and ineffable Lord; and in one Star in the Company of Stars of whose fire we are created, and to which we shall return; and in one Father of Life, Mystery of Mystery, in His name Chaos, the sole viceregent of the Sun upon the Earth; and in one Air the nourisher of all that breathes. And I believe in one Earth, the Mother of us all, and in one Womb wherein all men are begotten, and wherein they shall rest, Mystery of Mystery, in Her name Babalon.
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 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.
I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
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.
The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not in a position to transcend them.
Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.
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.
The customer is usually wrong, but statistics indicate that it doesn't pay to tell him so
Tell the truth, but lead so improbable a life that the truth will never be believed.
What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.
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.
The essence of independence has been to think and act according to standards from within, not without.
Every man and every woman is a star.
Your friends will notice at once that glib vacuities fail to impress, and hate you, and tell lies about you. It's worth it.
To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
I did not hate God or Christ, but merely the God and Christ of the people whom I hated.
It is necessary, in this world, to be made of harder stuff than one's environment.
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.
Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.
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.
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