Quotes

Changes and progress very rarely are gifts from above. They come out of struggles from below. And the answer to what’s next depends on people like you. Nobody else can answer it.

When we are doing the will of our true Self, we are inevitably doing the will of the Universe. In Magick these are seen as indistinguishable, that every Human Soul is in fact one Human Soul. It is the Soul of the Universe itself. And as long as you are doing the will of the Universe, then it is impossible to do anything wrong.

‘We who proudly make unto ourselves every graven image,
shall have great copulations and are allowed to love our Gods,
for we know the Sacred Alignments.’

‎But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?

I am suspicious of all the things that the average citizen believes.

“Labor flexibility” is a fancy way of saying that when you go to sleep at night, you don’t know if you have a job tomorrow morning. ..and that’s supposed to be a very good thing.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well-warmed, and well-fed.

The faster the enlightenment of the population, the more frequent the overthrow of the government.

‘It is sometimes found that self-initiates suddenly ‘invent’ a history for
their own legitimisation; curious tales of hereditary teaching or of
meetings with nameless strangers may occur. Instead of dismissing such
claims out-of-hand, we might be wiser to encourage such people to work with
their imaginations and discover what it is that is trying to manifest
through them. The ‘falsehoods’ may in some instances be adumbrations of
something more interior, but first such individuals must be made aware of
the inner process whereby phantasy assumes the guise of historical reality.
A refinement of method is required in order for us to recognise the imaginal
fore-shadowing of spiritual presence. As aforesaid, communicable inspiration
is the simplest sign of veracity…’

Life becomes self-organizing through the prolongation and resonance of an internal disparity, an out-of-phase-ness with itself that it shares with matter.