Jason Louv > Quotes

“The image of the “self-destructive artist” is a culturally implanted kill switch. Ignore it. Imagination is a weapon; you have been indoctrinated with these images so that if you discover the weapon, you will use it on yourself and save them the trouble.”
― Jason Louv, Hyperworlds, Underworlds

“My observation of the Universe convinces me that there are beings of intelligence and power of a far higher quality than anything we can conceive of as human; that they are not necessarily based on the cerebral and nervous structures that we know; and that the one and only chance for mankind to advance as a whole is for individuals to make contact with such Beings.”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire

“We are weighted with the outmoded dreams of dead men and dead systems, walking-corpse institutions and undead, blood-sucking ideologies long past their expiration date which yet haunt the planet, entrapping the joy of the living within the dead ribcage walls of their rotting, false order, and which direly need a stake through the heart simply because they are no longer relevant.”
― Jason Louv, Hyperworlds, Underworlds

“The story of who you are, were, will be: you don’t have to accept any of this. If you want, bypass selective editing and let the whole thing go. All of it. Stay on the blank page as long as you want; then write a new story if you like. Just remember that you’ll have to write in roles for other people that they like if you want others to play along.”
― Jason Louv, Hyperworlds, Underworlds

“Ask yourself where you’re complicit in other people’s stories. If you like them, stay in those stories. If you don’t, don’t. You’re not bound to any of it, though remember that if you want to get rid of the bad aspects of something you’ll probably have to lose the good aspects, too.”
― Jason Louv, Hyperworlds, Underworlds

“Paradoxically, the occult can often become the concern, in different modes, of both the least intelligent and also the most aberrantly intelligent human beings, with those soundly in the middle of the bell curve often unable to tell the difference between genuine intellectual exploration of the universe’s unfathomable and mysterious structure and pre-literate superstition.”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire

“The world of “magick” is, nine times out of ten, a world where people can hide their deep-set insecurity and personal damage behind illusion, constructed identities and claims to privileged knowledge, power or spiritual status. A gaudy carnival magic show, conducted with props that have long since begun to disintegrate with age, that seems to function only to distract people from the real magic that is occurring all around them, in every facet of their lives, every day of their lives. While the rituals and magical techniques of the Temple seem overly simplistic in comparison with the loftier Qabalahs, tables of correspondences and secret formulae of “high” magick, they have one thing which high magick quite often forgets: a concrete function.”
― Jason Louv, Thee Psychick Bible: Thee Apocryphal Scriptures ov Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Thee Third Mind ov Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth

“If the Protestant Reformation sought to remove the Catholic Church as an mediator between the individual and God, Hermetic magic sought to go one further, and provide techniques to directly plug an individual into the mind of God itself, not just handing over the right of individual interpretation of scripture but a direct connection to the source of scripture.”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire

“Faced with a totally controlled, monitored and owned online world, in which every utterance is immediately scanned and filed away, many have yet to make the connection that the best solution may not be running Tor and eighteen proxies, but writing things down on paper and talking face-to-face. Remember the mail? Remember conversations? Yeah, those still exist. Want to shake somebody out of their online trance? Send them a letter. Send them art. Want to record something that will last longer than a few seconds on Facebook or Twitter? Write a book. The physical world didn’t go anywhere. In fact, physical artifacts and experiences have only grown in totemic power the more we’ve pushed them away.”
― Jason Louv, Hyperworlds, Underworlds

“Dee and his contemporaries quested for nothing less than Total Knowledge—and all sciences were thought to be reflections of, and ways to ascend back to, the mind of God.”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire

“For the Hermeticist, the universe is a holographic unity, and understanding any aspect of it can aid in understanding all other aspects.”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire

“Within this underground occulture, the reception of channeled documents recapitulates the end of adolescence and parent/child split within the student/teacher relationship—such channeled books, regardless of their valid provenance, are social markers allowing occult students to split with their symbolic parents (teachers) and families (occult orders) and their metaphors for reality, establish their own metaphors for reality, and thereafter “reproduce” and start their own “families” in the form of new occult groups established around the new channeled documents.”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire

“When Elizabeth ascended to the throne, however, Dee ascended with her, becoming her astrological and scientific advisor; he was soon considered one of the most learned men in England, and certainly had the largest library—his private collection of manuscripts at Mortlake, which he assembled at high personal cost and from which he generously loaned, was substantially larger than the collections of both Oxford and Cambridge. (To briefly note how much our access to information has increased in the last several centuries, consider that during Dee’s life, Cambridge possessed only 451 books and manuscripts; Oxford, 379. Dee had 2,500 books and 170 manuscripts at Mortlake.)”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire

“On March 28, 2013, President Barack Obama signed the short-term spending bill HR 933 into law to prevent the government from shutting down. Discreetly slipped inside the bill, however, was an additional rider—section 735, dubbed the Farmer Assurance Provision.   Environmental activists had their own nickname for it: the “Monsanto Protection Act.” Outraged, they argued that the rider—which had been written by Senator Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), in collaboration with Monsanto itself[1]—would provide big agribusiness with immunity from judicial oversight. In effect, it would allow the US Department of Agriculture to approve of the planting of genetically modified crops even if the judiciary had declared them unsafe.”
― Jason Louv, Monsanto vs. the World: The Monsanto Protection Act, GMOs and Our Genetically Modified Future

“Biroco cites Trithemius’s own statement in the third book of the Steganographia: “This I did that to men of learning and men deeply engaged in the study of magic, it might, by the Grace of God, be in some degree intelligible, while on the other hand, to the thick-skinned turnip-eater it might for all time remain a hidden secret, and be to their dull intellects a sealed book forever.”28”
― Jason Louv, John Dee and the Empire of Angels: Enochian Magick and the Occult Roots of the Modern World

“Whether or not Enochian represents a valid system for causing “magical” change in consciousness, there is no question that Enochian is at the very heart of the 20th century occult and neopagan revival—Dee and Kelley’s work is still detonating long past their deaths. It is possible, in fact, that we completely lack the ability to gauge their otherworldly work as a success or failure—as it seems to be unfolding on a millennial timespan, “outside the circles of time.”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire

“Sir Walter Raleigh once remarked, “the art of magic is the art of worshipping God.”
― Jason Louv, The Angelic Reformation: John Dee, Enochian Magick & the Occult Roots of Empire