We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do not perceive at all, though we may be profoundly affected by them.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A ritual lodge is no place for the well-meaning ineffectual.

There is no essential difference between sticking pins into a wax image of an enemy and burning candles in front of a wax image of the Virgin. You may think that both these practices are gross superstition, but you can hardly think that one is real and potent and deny reality and potency to the other.

There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.

What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.

The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.

What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness.

One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.

All gods are one God, and all goddesses are one Goddess, and there is one Initiator.

Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which underlies all things and whence all things derive their substance and draw their life.

It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

The driving forces of the universe, the framework upon which it is built up in all its parts, belong to another phase of manifestation than our physical plane, having other dimensions than the three to which we are habituated, and perceived by other modes of consciousness than those to which we are accustomed.