“One ought to leave no form of energy to rust. Every particle of one’s personality is a necessary factor in the equation, and every impulse must be turned to account in the Great Work.“
“When Crowley first moved there [Boleskine House], he complained to the local council about the “prostitute problem” in the area. A mystified official was dispatched to investigate and reported there were no prostitutes. “That,” Crowley replied, “is the problem…”
There is some confusion as to what magic actually is. I think this can be cleared up if you just look at the very earliest descriptions of magic. Magic in its earliest form is often referred to as “the art”. I believe this is completely literal. I believe that magic is art and that art, whether it be writing, music, sculpture, or any other form is literally magic. Art is, like magic, the science of manipulating symbols, words, or images, to achieve changes in consciousness. The very language about magic seems to be talking as much about writing or art as it is about supernatural events. A grimmoir for example, the book of spells is simply a fancy way of saying grammar. Indeed, to cast a spell, is simply to spell, to manipulate words, to change people’s consciousness. And I believe that this is why an artist or writer is the closest thing in the contemporary world that you are likely to see to a Shaman.
“The individual must go knowing the truth more and more. Before he can be entrusted with the divine powers of mind and will, he has to accept knowledge as a responsibility to his Creator and to his world, rather than as an opportunity to improve his personal ambitions. ”
Manly P. Hall
The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Art: “The Devotion”
by Fletcher Sibthorpe
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“El individuo debe ir conociendo la verdad cada vez más. Antes de que se le puedan confiar los poderes divinos de la mente y la voluntad, tiene que aceptar el conocimiento como una responsabilidad hacia su Creador y hacia su mundo, más que como una oportunidad para mejorar sus ambiciones personales”.
Manly P. Hall
Las Enseñanzas Secretas de
Todos los Tiempos
Arte: “La Devoción”
por Fletcher Sibthorpe
“yet, none i know asks the mythic question; none tries to suggest a theory, and a praxis with it, derived from an archetypal approach to the whole business of dreams. others have seen myths in dreams and have used myths for amplifying dream motifs. it is, however, another vision altogether to look at dreams as phenomena that emerge from a specific archetypal ‘place’ and that correspond with a distinct mythic geography and then, further, to reflect this underworld in psychological theory.”
“The practice of magic consists in making what is not understood understandable in an incomprehensible manner. The magical way is not arbitrary, since that would be understandable, but it arises from incomprehensible grounds. Besides, to speak of grounds is incorrect, since grounds concur with reason. Nor can one speak of the groundless, since hardly anything further can be said about this. The magical way arises by itself. If one opens up chaos, magic also arises.”
“Aristotle taught that there was an immovable ‘entelechy’ in the universe that moves everything and the thought was its main attribute. I am also convinced that the whole universe is unified in both material and spiritual sense. Out there in the universe there is a nucleus that gives us all the power, all the inspiration; it draws us to itself eternally, I feel its mightiness and values it transmits throughout the universe; thus keeping it in harmony. I have not breached the secret of that core, still I am aware of its existence, and when wanting to give it any material attribute I imagine LIGHT, and when trying to conceive it spiritually I imagine BEAUTY and COMPASSION. The one who carries that belief inside feels strong, finds joy in his work, for he experiences himself as a single tone in the universal harmony.”
–Nikola Tesla
(From the text “Nikola Tesla, Our First Great Ambassador in the USA” of Vladislav Savic, published in ‘Tesla Magazine’ 1951.)
Occult Aspects 