EsotericElucidations

“If you think you don't have a sacred duty in life, you are profoundly mistaken. No matter what your life circumstances are, there is a job that must be done, a need that must be filled, a role that must be played in the grand comedy/drama of existence that can be done/filled/acted out only by you and you alone.”

“It might appear to the casual observer that my magick effects changes in the outside world. But ultimately, my outside world is one and the same as my inside world.

"He that is so foolish as not to follow his own Will, how shall he be so wise as to pursue that of another?"

“Tarot is a telescope through which we can gaze at the great macrocosmic world of deity; and it’s a microscope by which we can dissect the tiniest secrets of nature and our own souls.”

“Magic is art, and imagination is the lifeblood of the artist. Every artist is a magician, and every magician is an artist. The painter's creation is a painting; the composer's creation is the score; but the magician's creation is the magician—nothing else. Ultimately, the only thing the magician can directly change with magic is the magician.”

“In practice, magic is performance art staged for an audience of one—a lavishly costumed and meticulously choreographed meditation projected externally upon the screen of the magician's own objective reality.”

“The fundamental operating principle of evocation is to give outward substance to inner realities. The sooner you rid yourself of preconceived ideas of how all of this is going to manifest, the sooner you’ll be able to recognize it when it really does start to manifest.” “Just as no two people see and react to a play in the same exact way, so too no two magicians will have identical experiences in evocation.”

"Look around. You are smack dab in the middle of a ribbon of repeating patterns stretching infinitely toward macrocosmic immensity in one direction, and infinitely toward microcosmic smallness in the other. As above, so below. If we study the tiny subject, we simultaneously study its giant counterpart and vice versa."

KING OF WANDS / KNIGHT OF WANDS

“Were the world understood. Ye would see it as good. A dance to a delicate measure.”

"Humble thyself before thy Self, yet fear neither man nor spirit. Fear is failure, and the forerunner of failure: and courage is the beginning of virtue."

"The secrecy observed by the alchemists was made necessary by the power of persecuting Churches. Bitterly as bigots fought among themselves, they were all equally concerned to destroy the infant Science, which, as they instinctively recognized, would put an end to the ignorance and faith on which their power and wealth depended."

"Is Magick real, or is it all just in your head?"

"Their faces and their shapes are terrible and strange. These devils by my might to angels I will change. These nameless horrors I address without affright; On them will I impose my Will, the law of light."

"Are angels, demons, spirits, and other magical phenomena objective or subjective realities? Do they exist outside of us or are they just in our heads?"

"If the Bible leaves a bad taste in your mouth, welcome to the club. But before you throw old King James out the window, I'd like to point out that the Bible is holy—but so are the phonebook, Webster's Dictionary, Robert's Rules of Order and the menu at McDonalds." "...Everything is holy and anything is capable of being the vehicle of divine revelation."