Tag: quotes

magnumopus777:

“We have the truth still with us. But it is not found in books, to any great extent. It has been passed along from Master to Student; from Initiate to Hierophant; from lip to ear. When it was written down at all, its meaning was veiled in terms of alchemy and astrology, so that only those possessing the key could read it right.”

– The Kybalion

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metapsykhe:

“The Hidden Domain Because our physical senses and instruments cannot detect phenomena outside our three-dimensional universe, we are limited in our access to other levels. This does not mean, however, that we do not experience the hidden domain or that access to it is impossible. We reach it not with instruments but by going outside our usual sensory pathways.”

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The Hidden Domain by Norman Friedman

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vulturehooligan:

“Yet art, in its true and vital sense, is an instrument, a magical machine, a means of occult exploration which can project the seer into the realm of the Unseen, and launch the waking mind into the seas of subconsciousness. The power of seeing the unseen, the unnoticed, of knowing the unknown, is the supreme gift of art. Art is an instrument of such delicate construction that its hypersenstive and delicate antennae can detect the light ‘that shineth in darkness’, the light that ‘never was on sea or land’. It is a well known occult maxim that the Seer assumes the form of that which is seen; he is that which is seen, because the art of seeing is an act of reification, a projection of subject as object; and it is because the artist responds to infinitely tenuous vibrations that he is capable of capturing the most elusive, the most remote and ethereal impulses that thrill through space. He can read the runes of reality incised in vivid vevers upon the wastes of void.”

— Kenneth Grant, Outside the Circles of Time.

iseesigils:

‘the goat on the frontispiece carries the sign of the pentagram on the forehead, with one point at the top, a symbol of light, his two hands forming the sign of occultism, the one pointing up to the white moon of Chesed, the other pointing down to the black one of Geburah. This sign expresses the perfect harmony of mercy with justice. His one arm is female, the other male like the ones of the androgyne of Khunrath, the attributes of which we had to unite with those of our goat because he is one and the same symbol. The flame of intelligence shining between his horns is the magic light of the universal balance, the image of the soul elevated above matter, as the flame, whilst being tied to matter, shines above it. The beast’s head expresses the horror of the sinner, whose materially acting, solely responsible part has to bear the punishment exclusively; because the soul is insensitive according to its nature and can only suffer when it materializes. The rod standing instead of genitals symbolizes eternal life, the body covered with scales the water, the semi-circle above it the atmosphere, the feathers following above the volatile. Humanity is represented by the two breasts and the androgyne arms of this sphinx of the occult sciences.’

– eliphas levi.  

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