I've Written This To Keep

I Am Certainly Of Opinion That Genius Can Be Acquired, Or, In The Alternative, That It Is An Almost Universal Possession.

To Knot A Sentence Up Properly, It Has To Be Thought Out Carefully, And Revised. New Phrases Have To Be Put In; Sudden Changes Of Subject Must Be Introducted; Verbs Must Be Shifted To Unsuspected Localities; Short Words Must Be Excised With Ruthless Hand; Archaisms Must Be Sprinkled Like Sugar-plums Upon The Concoction; The Fatal Human Tendency To Say Things Straightforwardly Must Be Detected And Defeated By Adroit Reversals; And, If A Glimmer Of Meaning Yet Remain Under Close Scrutiny, It Must Be Removed By Replacing All The Principal Verbs By Paraphrases In Some Dead Language.

People Think That Talking Is A Sign Of Thinking. It Isn't, For The Most Part' On The Contrary, It's A Mechanical Dodge Of The Body To Relieve Oneself Of The Strain Of Thinking, Just As Exercising The Muscles Helps The Body To Become Temporarily Unconscious Of Its Weight, Its Pain, Its Weariness, And The Foreknowledge Of Its Doom.

To Me A Book Is A Message From The Gods To Mankind; Or, If Not, Should Never Be Published At All.

It Will Be Seen That The Formula - 'do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law' Has Nothing To Do With 'do As You Please.' It Is Much More Difficult To Comply With The Law Of Thelema Than To Follow Out Slavishly A Set Of Dead Regulations.