Doreen Valiente > Quotes

“Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices,
for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals.
Therefore, let there be beauty and strength,
power and compassion, honor and humility,
mirth and reverence within you.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“Let My worship be in the
heart that rejoices, for behold,
all acts of love and pleasure
are My rituals.”
― Doreen Valiente

“An it harm none, do what ye will.”
― Doreen Valiente

“And you who seek to know me,
know that the seeking and yearning will avail you not,
unless you know the Mystery:
For if that which you seek,
you find not within yourself, you will never find it without.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“And thou who thinkest to seek for me, know thy seeking and yearning shall avail thee not, unless thou know this mystery: that if that which thou seekest thou findest not within thee, thou wilt never find it without thee”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“Let my worship be within the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are my rituals. Therefore, let there be beauty and strength, power and compassion, honor and humility, mirth and reverence within you.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“Some religious people need the concept of the devil; it comes in extremely useful.”
― Doreen Valiente, An ABC of Witchcraft: Past and Present

“…witchcraft today is the product of a long period of evolution, in the course of which there have been many changes and accretions.”
― Doreen Valiente, Rebirth of Witchcraft

“Before people set out to reform the world, they need to take a good look at their own defects.”
― Doreen Valiente, An ABC of Witchcraft: Past and Present

“A better way to learn to interpret dreams is to study dream symbolism for yourself, with reference to the findings of modern psychology.”
― Doreen Valiente, Natural Magic

“The date [the beginning of the Age of Aquarius] thus arrived at is A.D. 2010.”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“The basic hallmark of the Pickingill covens was that they were led by a priestess, who could and did conduct the rites.”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“Well, I suppose one can really regard this sort of thing as a kind of back-handed compliment…”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“Save us, O Pan, and mostly from ourselves”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“Four times in the year the Great Sabbat
Returns, and the witches are seen
At Lammas and Candlemas dancing,
On May Eve and old Halloween.

When day-time and night-time are equal,
When Sun is at greatest and least,
The four lesser are summoned,
Again witches gather in feast.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“Doreen Valiente wrote the Charge Of The Goddess…Gerald Gardner's books of rites show the Charge developing in the 1940s and early 1950s from a pastiche of Crowley's writing to one of Charles Godfrey Leland and Crowley. What Doreen did was to keep the Leland, which she thought more authentic, put in a new framework, and write the “White Moon Charge”, which is wholly original in its words, although its basic form, of a universal nature goddess identified with the moon and addressing her devotees, is based on Apuleius's "Metamorphoses", from ancient Rome.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“With words we spin love,
With words we spin hate,
And twenty-six letters
Are weavers of fate.”
― Doreen Valiente, Charge of the Goddess

“The sign of the pentagram or five-pointed star, is potent to control elementals.”
― Doreen Valiente, An ABC of Witchcraft: Past and Present

“Witchcraft does not need to apologize for involving sex magic. It is other religions which need to apologize for the miseries of puritanical repression they have inflicted on humanity.”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“Witches were the descendants of the Wild Women who had sacrificed the Divine King, when his term of office was fulfilled, so that his blood might fertilise [sic] the land.”
― Doreen Valiente, An ABC of Witchcraft: Past and Present

“The only time I can see merit in forgiving an enemy is when you have your foot on his neck.”
― Doreen Valiente, Rebirth of Witchcraft

“The waxing moon is the time of growth and invoking for the things you want. The full moon is the time of integration and perfection, the high tide of psychic matters. The waning moon is the time of decrease and of banishing the things you want to get rid of. The dark of the moon is the time when dark forces are abroad, and not a good period to venture into the psychic realms.”
― Doreen Valiente, Natural Magic

“Records show that the curse which works with the deadliest effect is that which is addressed to the powers of fate and justice, in vengeance for a wrong that human law cannot or will not right.”
― Doreen Valiente, An ABC of Witchcraft: Past and Present

“These spirits of the elements should not be confused with the semi-intelligent entities called artificial elementals. The latter are formed from the elemental essence of the astral plane, by the power of human thought and desire acting upon that essence.”
― Doreen Valiente, An ABC of Witchcraft: Past and Present

“Crowley may have been a brilliant writer and a splendid poet but as a person he was simply a nasty piece of work.”
― Doreen Valiente, Rebirth of Witchcraft

“The god of the old religion becomes the devil of the new,”
― Doreen Valiente, Rebirth of Witchcraft

“Satanism, however, by its very nature, can only be an offshoot of Christianity; because before you can worship Satan you have to believe in him. Before you can celebrate a Black Mass, the essential act of which is to defile the sacred host, you have to believe in the real Mass. And if you believe in the real Mass, you are a Christian!”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“The circle of the coven is between the worlds; and what takes place between the worlds is no concern of either world.”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“For my part. I’ve never been able to see any sense in the teaching which requires people to forgive wrongs whether or not the wrong-doer has shown any signs of repentance. As I see it, this is simply encouraging the evil-doer to go and do it again to someone else. I have always thought that this is one of the major weaknesses of Christianity….”
― Doreen Valiente, Rebirth of Witchcraft