“Assimilated by the deceit of its divine origin, its tenets are reward for obedience, punishment for transgression, both holding good for all time (this world and another). This moral code is a dramatised burlesque of the conceptive faculty, but is… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“a process of self-deception to satisfy and summarily persuade yourself of righteousness. What one among us has any excuse but self-love? We do not create or confess a morality that is convenient, that lends itself to growth, and remains simple,… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“Others praise ceremonial Magic, and are supposed to suffer much Ecstasy! Our asylums are crowded, the stage is over-run! Is it by symbolizing we… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“Oh, God, thou art the stagnant environment." All is quackery: these religions whose very existence depend on their failure, are so full of misery… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“If you could truly believe, we should realise the virtue of it. We are not free to believe . . . . however much… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“There is no illusion but consciousness! This consciousness is ever the smiling monument commemorating "Whether you ever really enjoyed Life"! ” — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“Sigils are the means of guiding and uniting the partially free belief[27] with an organic desire, its carriage and retention till its purpose served… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“Something is causing Pain and something energizes the Agony: may it not be caused through the latent Idea of Supreme Bliss? And this eternal… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“Belief well earns the terrible hatred of the vitality. Belief is not freedom. Belief creates its necessary experience, progress germinates in retrogression. Consider the… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“The difference between good and evil is a matter of profundity. Which is nearer you, self-love and its immorality or love and morals? Not… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“The law of Kia is its ever original purpose, undetermined, without change the emanations, through our conception they materialize and are of that duality,… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“The "I" principle has reached the "Does not matter- need not be" state, and is not related to form. Save and beyond it, there… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image
“Man in the misery of his illusions and unsatisfied desires, wings his flight to different religions, and doctrines, seeks redeception, a hypnotic, a palliative… — Austin Osman, Spare Copy Share Image