Practically, Science Is True; And Faith Is

I Believe In One Gnostic And Catholic Church Of Light, Life, Love And Liberty, The Word Of Whose Law Is Thelema .

It Would Be Unwise To Condemn As Irrational The Practice Of Devouring The Heart And Liver Of An Adversary While Yet Warm. For The Highest Spiritual Working One Must Choose That Victim Which Contains The Greatest And Purest Force; A Male Child Of Perfect Innocence And High Intelligence Is The Most Satisfactory.

Every One Interprets Everything In Terms Of His Own Experience. If You Say Anything Which Does Not Touch A Precisely Similar Spot In Another Man's Brain, He Either Misunderstands You, Or Doesn't Understand You At All.

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.

The Few Love Affairs Which Had Come My Way Had Been Rather Silly And Sordid. They Had Not Revealed The Possibilities Of Love; In Fact I Had Thought It A Somewhat Overrated Pleasure, A Brief And Brutal Blindness With Boredom And Disgust Hard On Its Heels.