Your Friends Will Notice At Once That

The Sot Drinks, And Is Drunken: The Coward Drinks Not, And Shivers: The Wise Man, Brave And Free, Drinks, And Gives Glory To The Most High God.

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.

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.

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.

When You Have Proved That God Is Merely A Name For The Sex Instinct, It Appears To Me Not Far To The Perception That The Sex Instinct Is God.