“A witch is, actually, a successful (in the sense of surviving) deviant. You have a cultural, ideological, social, what-not pattern which is, for that society in question, normal (and, importantly, this is understood as a synonym for natural). Most people survive because they conform to these patterns, because they behave normally. […] But then suddenly you get a deviant which survives, and since it does not draw its support from the normal pattern, […] that deviant is understood as drawing its support from “unknown,” “supernatural” sources. […] If we cannot survive without our order, how can she [the witch] survive in solitude? Hers must be indeed a very powerful order to exist so independently, without all the inter cooperation and individual compromise which we have to go through to survive. And if it is so powerful, then it could destroy us. We must try to destroy it first.”
— Maya Deren, “From the Notebook of Maya Deren”, c.October 1947, vol. 14: pages 21–45.
The outer edge of the universe
Is where the spirits of creation reside
And from the deep corners of the mind
The space of consciousness
They are astral and physical beings
Pieces of us and separate from us
They show us all types of illumination: Light, wisdom, sacred flames, halos Geometric formation, colors
Pychedelia, even visions of the galaxy.
Often it is through birds
Where receive such illumination:
From our dreams and gnosis
And sources such as Ra, Horus and Thoth An owl, perhaps of Minerva for example With energy of the light bringer
Carries a light above their head
Symbolic of enlightenment, of the third eye And of crown chakra
And he comes to this plane
Entering through a green glow
His illuminating aura points to center: Freedom, nirvana, moksha, enlightenment Which we strive to consciously
And subconsciously reach
Primarily through our own will
Focus on your center
Travel through the path of green light
To heal your heart
Occult Aspects 