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-<center>This page serves as a curated list of quotes that have been featured as the [[Occult Encyclopedia]]'s '''Featured Quote''', formerly known as the '''Quote of the Week''' section on the main page.
+<center>This page serves as a curated list of quotes that have been featured as the [[Occult:About|Occult Encyclopedia]]'s '''Featured Quote''' section on the main page.
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-==Occultists==
+==[[Occultist]]s==
 ===[[Aleister Crowley]]===
 * "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."
+===[[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]]===
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 ===[[Arthur Edward Waite]]===
-* ''The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs."
+* "The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs."
 * "Behind man is the Tree of Life, beating twelve fruits, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil is behind the woman."
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 * "We have now seen that there is no particle of evidence for the Egyptian origin of Tarot cards."
-===[[Dion Fortune]]===
+===[[Etteilla]]===
-* "Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will."
+* "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."
-* "What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with."
+==Others==
+===[[L. Ron Hubbard]]===
+* "Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow."
-* "We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive."
+* "When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul."
-* "A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism."
+===[[Marie Laveau]]===
+* "Here is the day, we must welcome it with a song."
-===[[Anton Szandor LaVey]]===
+* "Witch hunters is white women's worry."
-* "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."
+* "Voodoo doll belong in the house of voodoo."
-* "The Atheist complains about the wind. The Christian prays for it to change. The Satanist adjusts his sails."
+===[[Mary I of England]]===
+* "This natural life of ours is but a pilgrimage from this wandering world, and exile from our own country."
-* "If you're going to be a sinner, be the best sinner on the block."
+===George. L. Kittredge===
+* "Witch-hunting never flourishes unless the common people are eager for it."
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