Quotes

The greatest magic act of all – the unrecognized king of all sigils – was the creation of the dollar itself. We support the reality of this symbol whether we’re going after dollars or complaining about lack of opportunity to accumulate them. By taking the very real values of wealth and prosperity and assigning them to the symbol of money, we dissociated our labor from the real. Sure, if we had some authority over that symbol we might be in business, but we don’t; it’s the most protected and inaccessible set of mythology around. No cut and paste permitted, William.

So we take a guy like that – a meathead with no more knowledge of psychology or anthropology or sociology or medicine or history or ethics or logic than he has of nuclear physics – and we give him a gun and a club and a can of mace and turn him lose, my God, to ‘police’ the rest of us. Total insanity.

A myth is something that in some way happened once but which also happens all the time

There is a famous line by Karl Marx, which I am sure many of you know: the task is not just to understand the world, but to change it. And there is a variant of that which should also be kept in mind. If you want to change the world in a constructive direction, you better try to understand it first. And understanding it doesn’t mean just listening to a talk or reading a book, although that’s helpful sometimes. It means learning. And you learn through participation. You learn from others. You learn from the people you are trying to organize. And you have to gain the experience and understanding which will make it possible to maybe implement ideas like that as a tactic.

If you want to understand a society, take a good look at the drugs it uses. Except for pharmaceutical poison, there are essentially only two drugs that Western civilization tolerates: caffeine from Monday to Friday to energize you enough to make you a productive member of society, and alcohol from Friday to Monday to keep you too stupid to figure out the prison you are living in.

There are only two worlds — your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are worlds of the human imagination: their reality, or lack of reality, is not important. What is important is that they are there. These worlds provide an alternative. Provide an escape. Provide a threat. Provide a dream, and power; provide refuge, and pain. They give your world meaning. They do not exist; and thus they are all that matters.

I ask again: When did a wand become a stick with crystals and assorted other kindergarten craft shit glued to it? Somewhere it went from ‘sever a branch from a virgin hazel tree at the hour of Mercury’ to ‘Glue some shit on a stick.’ If your ritual tools look like they belong on a late night Snuggie Commercial, you have failed so very completely.

Magic is an art rather than a science in that all such laws or axioms must be viewed purely as rules of thumb to be used or discarded with discretion. Keep in mind the most basic of all laws of magic:
Magic always works! If what you’re doing doesn’t work, you’re not doing the right thing.

The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God’s infinite love. That’s the message we’re brought up with, isn’t it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options.

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?