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But it so happens that everything on this planet is, ultimately, irrational; there is not, and cannot be, any reason for the causal connexion of thing...more

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To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death.

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Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Mystic, can never rest

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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,...more

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Those, therefore, who effect to despise "profane" Science are themselves despicable. It is their own incapacity for true Thought of any serious kind, ...more

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On the Path of the Wise there is probably no danger more deadly, no poison more pernicious, no seduction more subtle than Spiritual Pride; it strikes,...more

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It is impossible to exaggerate the importance of performing these small ceremonies regularly, and being as nearly accurate as possible with regard to ...more

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The two seem, at first glance, to be opposed, but when you have advanced a little in both, you find that concentration learned in Yoga is of immense u...more

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The mystic's idea of deliberately stupefying and stultifying himself is an "abomination unto the Lord." This, by the way, does not conflict with the r...more

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In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or ma...more

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The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requi...more

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Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth to lofty ends, the advanc...more

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There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.Love is the law, love under will.

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Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.