“Fascism is like Communism, and dishonest into the bargain. The dictators suppress all art, literature, theatre, music, news, that does not meet their requirements; yet the world only moves by the light of genius.”
“Under the appellations of the Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is concealed the Great Arcanum of antiquity… The mystery of equilibrium.
The Tree of Life represents the spiritual point of balance–the secret of immortality. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, as its name implies, represents polarity, or unbalance–the secret of mortality. The Qabbalists reveal this by assigning the central column of their Sephirothic diagram to the Tree of Life and the two side branches to the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
“Unbalanced forces perish in the void,” declares the secret work, and all is made known.”
“Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind.”
“Magic is the Highest, most Absolute, and most Divine Knowledge of Natural Philosophy, advanced in its works and wonderful operations by a right understanding of the inward and occult virtue of things; so that true Agents being applied to proper Patients, strange and admirable effects will thereby be produced.”
It has been a very long time since I created this, but a post on the Pagan tag today reminded me of it. I thought it was time to trot it out again and let people get a kick out of it.
In case The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy has become a bit saccharine for you this season, let chronarchy’s animation of The Dance of the Thelemites prove a balm for your soul.
Occult Aspects 