“Know all ritual, ceremony, conditions, as arbitrary (you have yourself to please), a hindrance and confusion; their origin was for amusement, later for the purpose of deceiving other from knowing the truth and inducing ignorance; and as always happens their high priests were the more deceived themselves. He who deceives another deceives himself much more. Therefore know the Charlatans by their love of rich robes, ceremony, ritual, magical retirements, absurd conditions, and other stupidity, too numerous to relate. Their entire doctrine a boastful display, a cowardice hungering for notoriety; their standard everything unnecessary, their certain failure assured. Hence it is that those with some natural ability quickly lose it by their teaching. They can only dogmatise, implant and multiply that which is entirely superficial. Were I a teacher I should not act as master, as knowing more, the pupil could lay no claim to discipleship. Assimilating slowly, he would not be conscious of his learning, he would not repeat the vital mistake; without fear he would accomplish with ease. The only teaching possible is to show a man how to learn from his own wisdom, and to utilise his ignorance and mistakes. Not by obscuring his vision and intention by righteousness.”
— Austin Osman Spare, The Psychology of Ecstasy
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“Believing without associating ye are spurious and know not the way of virtue. There is no virtue in truth, nor truth in righteousness. Law becomes of desire’s necessity. Corrupt is the teacher, for they who speak have only spent words to give.”
— Austin Osman Spare, Anathema of Zos
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“According to the universal laws, the magician will form his own point of view about the universe which henceforth will be his true religion.”
— Franz Bardon, “Initiation into Hermetics”
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“ Ignorance of ignorance, then, is that self-satisfied state of unawareness in which man, knowing nothing outside the limited area of his physical senses, bumptiously declares there is nothing more to know! He who knows no life save the physical is merely ignorant; but he who declares physical life to be all-important and elevates it to the position of supreme reality—such a one is ignorant of his own ignorance. “
– Manly Palmer Hall
You and I are not two. In the identity of form, in the origin and in the end, we are one. I am responsible for your evil and your good , for your truth and your falsehood. I can do nothing to change you now, but I can improve you by improving myself.
– R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz
“Synchronicity is an ever present reality for those who have eyes to see.”
— Carl Jung
“One useful magical model will be outlined next. It is the shamanic theory which views the ecosystem as a single, living entity composed of myriads of different life forms, all of which depend on each other. Over the last decades, biology began to discover that living beings cannot be seen outside of the context in which they exist, and that in each and every ecological system all participants are connected with each other. In this sense we may consider a biosphere as a single living entity and the hypothesis that the biosphere of this planet is also a single, living entity, is but an extension of this idea.”
— Jan Fries, Visual Magick – A manual of Freestyle Shamanism; A Practical Guide to Trance, Sigils & Visualisation Techniques
“If the world is a living being we are as much part of it as are the beasts, the plants, the fungi, trees and stones. Whichever life form we encounter can be seen as an extension of ourselves (and vice versa), aspects of a vast, multi-personal self that includes all participants in a single Gestalt. This makes all living beings close relations, and considering the DNA coding, this claim is not religion but biology. Thus, the interaction of one life form with another can be understood as communication of self with self.”
— Jan Fries, Visual Magick – A manual of Freestyle Shamanism; A Practical Guide to Trance, Sigils & Visualisation Techniques
“To the shaman the natural world (outside) and the mental world (inside) are closely connected. They are organized in similar ways, they include the same items, and they can influence each other … When the outside world is considered a reflection of the deep mind, life will be full of messages and secret meanings.”
— Jan Fries, Visual Magick – A manual of Freestyle Shamanism; A Practical Guide to Trance, Sigils & Visualisation Techniques
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