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== | ==[[Occultist]]s== | ||
===[[Aleister Crowley]]=== | ===[[Aleister Crowley]]=== | ||
* "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." | * "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." | ||
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* "Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness." | * "Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness." | ||
===[[ | ===[[John Dee]]=== | ||
* " | * "Who does not understand should either learn, or be silent." | ||
* "The message is that all things are connected." | |||
===[[Damien Echols]]=== | |||
* "Without books, I would have gone insane long ago." | |||
* "Ignorance breeds superstition." | |||
* "Sooner or later a person's physical appearance comes to resemble whatever is in their heart." | |||
* "You have to experience something for yourself or you never really comprehend it." | |||
===[[Dion Fortune]]=== | |||
* "Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will." | |||
* "What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with." | |||
* "We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive." | |||
* "A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism." | |||
===[[Anton Szandor LaVey]]=== | |||
* "Don't waste your time with people who will ultimately destroy you." | |||
* "Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity." | |||
* "The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails." | |||
* "If you're going to be a sinner, be the best sinner on the block." | |||
===[[Éliphas Lévi]]=== | |||
* "He who affirms the devil creates or makes the devil." | |||
* "An idle man will never become a magician. Magic is an exercise of all hours and all moments." | |||
* " | * "To preserve ourselves against evil influences, the first condition is to forbid excitement to the imagination." | ||
* " | * "Men think God has made them in His image because they have made Him in theirs." | ||
* " | * "Of all oracles, the Tarot is the most astounding in its answers." | ||
* " | ===[[Samuel L. MacGregor Mathers]]=== | ||
* "For the opinion of the ordinary literary critic who neither understands nor believes in Occultism, I care nothing." | |||
===[[Jack Parsons]]=== | ===[[Jack Parsons]]=== | ||
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* "We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards." | * "We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards." | ||
===[[ | ===[[Etteilla]]=== | ||
* " | * "If Heaven governs the Earth, God governs Heaven." | ||
* "If you veil the truth, let it never be with the curtain of lies, but with the veil required by a truth that can offend or cause bitterness." | |||
==[[Witch]]es== | |||
===[[Sybil Leek]]=== | |||
* "None of us ''consider'' ourselves witches. We ''ARE'' witches." | |||
* "It would be immodest of me to say I am one of the world's greatest astrologers, but why shouldn't I say I am." | |||
* "No one wants a witch's body." | |||
* "I'm not anti-religion, I'm anti-hypocrisy." | |||
* "If you're a witch, be a good witch." | |||
===[[Rebecca Nurse]]=== | |||
* "I am innocent as the child unborn." | |||
* "I have got nobody to look to but God." | |||
===[[Frederick Santee]]=== | |||
* "No good witch fails to have a familiar." | |||
* "The concept of sacrifice is probably present in witchcraft, but mainly in the manner of living one's life." | |||
* "There is no distinction between the occult and the scientific: they are both sciences." | |||
* "Every complete language is an intricate maze of overlapping symbols." | |||
* "Religion as a spiritual force is not dead, but keeps cropping up outside the traditional pale." | |||
===[[Gerald Gardner]]=== | |||
* "Witches are firm believers in reincarnation, and they say that 'once a witch, always a witch.'" | |||
* "Witchcraft is, and was not, for everyone." | |||
==[[Saint]]s== | |||
===[[Joan of Arc]]=== | |||
* "Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!" | |||
* "Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well." | |||
* "All battles are first won or lost, in the mind." | |||
===[[Constantine I]]=== | |||
* "Thinking is the great enemy of perfection." | |||
* "Let love bind us together, for it is the greatest force in the world." | |||
===[[Eva Perón]]=== | |||
* "Shadows cannot see themselves in the mirror of the sun." | |||
* "Time is my greatest enemy." | |||
* "I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves." | |||
* " | ==Others== | ||
===[[L. Ron Hubbard]]=== | |||
* "Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow." | |||
* " | * "When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul." | ||
* " | ===[[Marie Laveau]]=== | ||
* "Here is the day, we must welcome it with a song." | |||
* "Witch hunters is white women's worry." | |||
* " | |||
* " | * "Voodoo doll belong in the house of voodoo." | ||
* " | ===[[Mary I of England]]=== | ||
* "This natural life of ours is but a pilgrimage from this wandering world, and exile from our own country." | |||
* " | ===George. L. Kittredge=== | ||
* "Witch-hunting never flourishes unless the common people are eager for it." | |||
[[Category:The Occult Encyclopedia]] | [[Category:The Occult Encyclopedia]] | ||