Magick Is The Science Of Understanding Oneself

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.

Morality Can Muddle Mystical Understanding And Virtue Is Only Necessary In So Far As It Favours Success. All Wisdom Must Be Encompassed In Order To Achieve Enlightenment.

There Are Hardly Half A Dozen Writers In England Today Who Have Not Sold Out To The Enemy. Even When Their Good Work Has Been A Success, Mammon Grips Them And Whispers: More Money For More Work.

What Is It In Absinthe That Makes It A Separate Cult? The Effects Of Its Abuse Are Totally Distinct From Those Of Other Stimulants. Even In Ruin And In Degradation It Remains A Thing Apart: Its Victims Wear A Ghastly Aureole All Their Own, And In Their Peculiar Hell Yet Gloat With A Sinister Perversion Of Pride That They Are Not As Other Men.

The Affiliation Clause In Our Constitution Is A Privilege: A Courtesy To A Sympathetic Body. Were You Not A Mason, Or Co-mason, You Would Have To Be Proposed And Seconded, And Then Examined By Savage Inquisitors, And Then-probably-thrown Out On The Garbage Heap. Well, No, It's Not As Bad As That; But We Certainly Don't Want Anybody Who Chooses To Apply. Would You Do It Yourself, If You Were On The Committee Of A Club? The O.t.o. Is A Serious Body, Engaged On A Work Of Cosmic Scope. You Should Question Yourself: What Can I Contribute?