[There is] one principle of all things, of which there has always been one and the same knowledge among all peoples.

Magic is a powerful faculty, full of mystery and comprising a profound knowledge of the most secret thing, their nature, power, quality, substance and effects.. It is a philosophical science; it is physics, mathematics, and theology.

Religion is the most mysterious thing and one about which one should keep silent... it would be an offense to religion to confide it to the profane multitude.

Though man is not an immortal animal, like the universe, he is nonetheless reasonable, and with his intelligence, his imagination and his soul, he can act upon and transform the whole world.

Natural Magick is the chief power of all the natural Sciences; the top, perfection, and active part of Natural Philosophy; which by the assistance of natural forces and faculties, through their mutual & opportune application, performs those things that are above Human Reason.

No one who is not utterly blind can fail to see that God gathered all the beauty of which the whole world is capable of in woman. Woman far excels Man. Woman was not composed of any inanimate or vile dirt, but of a more refined and purified substance, enlivened and actuated by a Rational Soul, whose operations speak it a beam, or bright ray of Divinity.

The meaning we have dispersed in various places and gathered again; what we have concealed in one place we have disclosed in another, that it may be understood by your wisdom.

All sciences are only the ordinances and opinions of men, as injurious as profitable, as pestilent as wholesome, as ill as good, in no part perfect, but doubtful and full of error and contention.

The world within worlds within it dissolved.

In the time of the philosophers, as at every other period, there existed some of these fervent mystics. God does not deprive this world of them, for they are its sustainers.

If the thought that he is effaced from self occurs to one with a realization of fans ['no-mind'], that is a defect. The highest state is to be effaced from effacement.

I have poked into every dark recess, I have made an assault on every problem, I have plunged into every abyss, I have scrutinized the creed of every sect, I have tried to lay bare the inmost doctrines of every community. All this have I done that I might distinguish between true and false, between sound tradition and heretical innovation.

To get what you love, you must first be patient with what you hate.

Desire makes slaves out of kings, and patience makes kings out of slaves.

As I look back on my life, I realize that every time I thought I was being rejected from something good; I was actually being redirected to something better.

Soft words soften the hearts that are harder than rock, harsh words harden hearts that are softer than silk.

Those who look for seashells will find seashells; those who open them will find pearls.

All of a man’s happiness is in his being the master of his ego, while all his suffering is in his ego being his master.

Whosoever complains of the bad character of another man has revealed the badness of his own character.

Know that thankfulness is from the highest of stations, and it is higher than patience, fear, and detachment of the world.