• “I am alone: there is no God where I am.” –Liber AL I:23
• “Into my loneliness comes—” –Liber VII, Prologue of the Unborn, line 1
• “‘Loneliness‘, i.e. of Babe of Abyss.” -Commentary on Liber VII line 1
• “There was a maiden that strayed among the corn, and sighed; then grew a new birth, a narcissus, and therein she forgot her sighing and her loneliness.” –Liber LXV, I:47
• “Thou art like a lonely pillar in the midst of the sea; there is none to behold Thee, 0 Thou who beholdest all!” –Liber LXV IV:58
• “The “lonely pillar” represents Chokmah, the Creative Word, the Phallic Mercury, the Wisdom by which the worlds were created.” -Commentary to Liber LXV, I:47
• “He may at any moment withdraw from his association with the A:. A:., simply notifying the Practicus who introduced him. Yet let him remember that being entered thus far upon the Path, he cannot escape it, and return to the world, but must ultimate either in the City of the Pyramids or the lonely towers of the Abyss.” –Liber 185, Task of the Zelator