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==Occultists==
==[[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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* "The message is that all things are connected."
* "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]]===
===[[Dion Fortune]]===
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* "If you're going to be a sinner, be the best sinner on the block."
* "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]]===
===[[Samuel L. MacGregor Mathers]]===
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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==
==[[Witch]]es==
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* "There is no distinction between the occult and the scientific: they are both sciences."
* "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==
==[[Saint]]s==
===[[Joan of Arc]]===
===[[Joan of Arc]]===
* "Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!"
* "Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!"
* "Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said."


* "Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well."
* "Go forward bravely. Fear nothing. Trust in God; all will be well."


* "All battles are first won or lost, in the mind."
* "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]]===
===[[Eva Perón]]===
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* "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."
* "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."


==Other==
==Others==
* "Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel." ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
===[[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."


* "I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them." ~ Yoko Ono


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