Preface

vi

Foreword

xi

PARADOX

I.

Religion is magic, sanctioned by authority

1

II.

Liberty is obedience to the Law

16

III.

Love is the realisation of the impossible

32

IV.

Knowledge is the ignorance or negation of Evil

41

V.

Reason is God

57

VI.

The Imagination realises what it invents

74

VII.

The Will accomplishes everything which it does not desire

88

Synthetic Recapitulation--Magic--Magism

98

The Unalterable Principles

135

The Great Secret

159