“Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as The Arte. I believe this is completely literal… Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change people’s consciousness…. In latter times I believe artists and writers have allowed themselves to be sold down the river. They have accepted the prevailing belief that art and writing are merely forms of entertainment… they’re not seen as transformative forces that can change a human being… they are seen as simple entertainment. Things with which we can fill twenty minutes, half an hour, while we’re waiting to die.”
– Alan MooreFrater 440.’.
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“All things are precipitated by the nature of existence. Nothing, therefore, is unnatural, be it the bee-hive or termite mound, or all our shining poisoned cities.
Everything is Universe.
Everything is holy, Life and Consciousness, Creation’s rarest embers.”
Alan Moore, Promethea
“Indeed to cast a spell is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change peoples consciousness, and this is why I believe that an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world to a shaman.”
– Alan Moore
Frater 440.’.
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“The more I look at most of the art movements, it’s all occultism, when you get down to it. The Surrealists were openly talking about being magicians.”
– Alan Moore: The Gnostic 4: Including Alan Moore on the Occult
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