Quotes

Come, O Golden Goddess, the singers chant
(for it is nourishment for the heart to dance the iba,
to shine over the feast at the hour of retiring
and to enjoy ha-dance at night)

Come! The procession takes place at the site of drunkenness,
This area where one wanders in the marshes.
Its routine is set, the rules are firm:
Nothing is left to be desired.

The royal children satisfy You with what You love
And the officials give offerings to You.
The lector priest exalts You singing a hymn,
And the wise men read the rituals.

The priest honors You with his basket,
And the drummers take their tambourines.
Ladies rejoice in Your honor with garlands
And girls do the same with wreaths.

Drunkards play tambourines for You in the cool night,
And those they wake up bless You.
The bedouin dance for You in their garments
And Asiatics dance with their sticks.

The griffins wrap their wings around You,
The hares stand on their hind legs for You.
The hippopotami adore with wide open mouths,
And their legs salute Your face

Light and Darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers of one another. They are inseparable. Because of this neither are the good good, nor evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death. For this reason each one will dissolve into its earliest origin. But those who are exalted above the world are indissoluble, eternal.

Putting it simply and briefly, let me say at the outset that Magic concerns itself in the main with that self-same world as does modern psychology. That is to say, it deals with that sphere of the psyche of which normally we are not conscious but which exerts an enormous influence upon our lives. Magic is a series of psychological techniques so devised as to enable us to probe more deeply into ourselves. To what end? First, that we shall understand ourselves more completely. Apart from the fact that such self-knowledge in itself is desirable, an understanding of the inner nature releases us from unconscious compulsions and motivations and confers a mastery over life. Second, that we may the more fully express that inner self in every-day activities. It is only when mankind as a whole has reached, or perhaps when the more advanced men and women in the world have evolved, some degree of inner realisation that we may ever hope for that ideal utopian condition of things—a wide tolerance, peace, and universal brotherhood. It is to ends such as these that Magic owes its raison d’etre.

What is magic?

Then there is the witches’ explanation, which comes in two forms, depending on the age of the witch. Older witches hardly put words to it at all, but may suspect in their hearts that the universe really doesn’t know what the hell is going on and consists of a zillion trillion billion possibilities, and could become any one of them if a trained mind rigid with quantum certainty was inserted in the crack and twisted; that, if you really had to make someone’s hat explode, all you needed to do was twist into that universe where a large number of hat molecules all decide at the same time to bounce off in different directions.

Younger witches, on the other hand, talk about it all the time and believe it involved crystals, mystic forces, and dancing about without yer drawers on.
Everyone may be right, all at the same time. That’s the thing about quantum.

The traditional formula is simple, kneeling with hair loose, praying aloud for his help. You do not need a book to tell you the words. They are within you. If you wish to place an intercessor between you and your desires, then a tradition already exists for you, it is called christianity.

From San Francisco to Chicago to Atlanta to New York, police conduct sweeps on the street, profiling people based on race and gender identity and using vague anti-prostitution laws against “loitering with intent” to justify their arrest. Federal law enforcement agencies monitor sex workers’ online advertisements and websites, in conjunction with local law enforcement, posing as customers to conduct surveillance. They say they’re investigating trafficking, but arrest many more adult sex workers than they file trafficking charges against those who may exploit them.

There is no truth. There is only perception.

I’m glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you know what happened to me? I laid in a field of green grass for four hours going, “My God! I love everything.” Yeah, now if that isn’t a hazard to our country … how are we gonna justify arms dealing when we realize that we’re all one?

Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission.

The most advanced shamanic techniques —such as Tibetan Tantra or Crowley’s system in the West— work by alternating faith and skepticism until you get beyond the ordinary limits of both. With such systems, one learns how arbitrary are the reality-maps that can be coded into laryngeal grunts by hominids or visualized by a mammalian nervous system. We can’t even visualize the size of the local galaxy except in special High states.