Leo Holmes > Quotes

“Because the Shadow only receives punishment from social interactions, this is the only way it learns to interact. Pain, violence, retribution, punishment, torture: this is the language of the Shadow. It speaks in wounds.”
― Leo Holmes, The Abyss

“That the Tree of Life is doubtlessly a sky chart is something clear to every magician who had attempted to study it. However, it traditionally focuses much more on religious concepts and morals, and on the planetary correspondences than on its stellar knowledge. It almost neglects the stars (paths), relegating them to second plane and actually only twelve of the twenty-two paths are related to the constellations. When such a relationship is established, it is usually in an astrologically rather than astronomically manner. However, if we want to review concepts in order to identify the Tree of Life’s stellar roots, we have to retrace its basic associations and principles.”
― Leo Holmes, LeMULgeton - Goetia and the Stellar Tradition

“The Arabian stellar Gnosis was assimilated by the western occult traditions probably as a consequence of the Crusades. Ironically, the
wars against the pagans and heretics of the Levant ended up with much of their mysticism being successively absorbed by the crusaders and templars themselves. And it happened right under the nose of the church, so much that the arrests, charges and subsequent dissolution only took place three centuries later.”
― Leo Holmes, LeMULgeton - Goetia and the Stellar Tradition

“Meaning is necessary, living is not.”
― Leo Holmes, The Abyss