As belief in one’s capabilities self-evidently leads to increasing capabilities, magicians consider it worthwhile to believe in their ability to accomplish the impossible, even if they only succeed at this occasionally.
He who is doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe.
Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.
As a great master once observed: “There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse.” Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water .
In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.
All Philosophy is Biography.
If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.
Space, time, mass, and energy originate from Chaos, have their being in Chaos, and through th agency of the aether are moved by Chaos into the multiple forms of existence.
Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.
Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.
It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.
Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.
We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.
It is a mistake to consider any belief more liberated than another. It is the possibility of change which is important. Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents. There is no freedom from duality on this plane of existence, but one may at least aspire to choice of duality.
Ideas about a person’s place in society, his role, lifestyle, and ego qualities will lose their hold as the cohesive forces in society disintegrate. Subculture values will proliferate to such a bewildering extent that a whole new class of professionals will arise to control them. Such a Transmutation Technology will deal in fashions, in ways of being. Lifestyle consultants will become the new priests of our civilizations. They will be the new magicians.
Half of the skill in magick consists of identifying probabilities worth enhancing.
The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment.
Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.
If in doubt, always attempt to force the hand of chance.
Never discard the negative roots of any equation; always look at the dark side of any enlightenment.