There is a great difference between a good physician and a bad one; yet very little between a good one and none at all.
Religion controls inner space; inner space controls outer space.
The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside us, the collective unconscious, the many lives, the divine eternal parts, the senses and parts of the brain that have been ignored.
Mythology is the mother of religions, and grandmother of history.
Casting a spell, in self-defense or in self-interest is not selfish, but positive, life-affirming. You have been given powers, the very same powers that society devalues. . . What if it comes back tenfold? Well, don't be a fool. Never use your magick to attack the innocent. Then you have nothing to fear. . . Don't be frivolous or cowardly. If your course is righteous, and your tools ready, go to it.
The Goddess is Alive. Magic is afoot.
Pleasure is a manifestation of self-re-creation. Pleasure is worship because it replenishes the soul.
This is the most immediate fruit of exile, of uprooting: the prevalence of the unreal over the real. Everyone dreamed past and future dreams, of slavery and redemption, of improbable paradises, of equally mythical and improbable enemies; cosmic enemies, perverse and subtle, who pervade everything like the air.
Illusions. . . are simple facts, but they have been created by the mind, by the spirit, and they are one of the justifications of the new spatial configuration.
Abuse and respect are diametric opposites: You do not respect someone whom you abuse, and you do not abuse someone whom you respect.
A person himself believes that all the other portraits are good likenesses except the one of himself.