doubt is a good servant but a bad master; a perfect mistress, but a nagging wife. - Aleister Crowley

But to understand English is one thing; to understand an Englishman who talks is another.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

By such methods, the A∴A∴ intends to make occult science as systematic and scientific as chemistry; to rescue it from the ill repute which, thanks both to the ignorant and dishonest quacks that have prostituted its name, and to the fanatical and narrow-minded enthusiasts that have turned it into a fetish, has made it an object of aversion to those very minds whose enthusiasm and integrity make them most in needs of its benefits, and most fit to obtain them.