Magic Is Real. And Reality... It Is

Balance Every Thought With Its Opposition. Because The Marriage Of Them Is The Destruction Of Illusion.

I Am The Blue-lidded Daughter Of Sunset; I Am The Naked Brilliance Of The Voluptuous Night-sky.

All Questions Of The Law Are To Be Decided Only By Appeal To My Writings, Each For Himself

I Must Make Magick The Essential Factor In The Life Of All. In Presenting This Book To The World, I Must Then Explain And Justify My Position By Formulating A Definition Of Magick And Setting Forth Its Main Principles In Such A Way That All May Understand Instantly That Their Souls, Their Lives, In Every Relation With Every Other Human Being And Every Circumstance, Depend Upon Magick And The Right Comprehension And Right Application Thereof.

The Greatest, Like Rembrandt, Paint A Gallant, A Hag, And A Carcass With Equal Passion And Rapture; They Love The Truth As It Is. They Do Not Admit That Anything Can Be Ugly Or Evil; Its Existence Justifies Itself. This Is Because They Know Themselves To Be Part Of An Harmonious Unity; To Disdain Any Item Of It Would Be To Blaspheme The Whole. The Thelemite Is Able To Revel In Any Experience Soever; In Each He Recognizes The Tokens Of Ultimate Truth. It Is Surely Obvious, Even Intellectually, That All Phenomena Are Interdependent, And Therefore Involve Each Other.