Raymond Buckland > Quotes

“I could understand how such stories of horror can spread, like a wild fire. Such was the nature of rumor. People seemed to love to be frightened especially when, in their heart of hearts, they knew that they were safe. How many truly believed in vampires, I pondered? How many truly believed that they were risking their life by sitting up in the gods to watch a stage performance?”
― Raymond Buckland, A Mistake Through the Heart

“Complete destruction,” agreed the inspector. “And all because of some hothead – appropriate term, we’re thinking – getting hysterical and setting fire to just one house in the street.” “At least it has allayed your reports of vampires,” said Stoker. The inspector snorted. “Vampires! We knew there was no such thing right from the start.” “And yet you were not prepared to enter the house and prove it,” I said.”
― Raymond Buckland, A Mistake Through the Heart

“Mead Dissolve four pounds of honey in a gallon of water, and add an ounce of hops, half an ounce of root ginger, and the pared rind of two lemons. Boil this for threequarters of an hour, pour it into a cask to the brim, and when it is still lukewarm add an ounce of yeast. Leave the mead to ferment, and when this has ended, put in a quarter of an ounce of isinglass and bung the cask tightly. In six months it should be bottled.”
― Raymond Buckland, Buckland's Book of Saxon Witchcraft

“there are no hard and fast rules, no laws carved into stone. You work with what is right for you, as an individual.”
― Raymond Buckland, Wicca for One: The Path of Solitary Witchcraft

“powerful, positive energies flowing into you from the deities.”
― Raymond Buckland, Wicca for One: The Path of Solitary Witchcraft

“You could well end up with something you can’t get rid of!”
― Raymond Buckland, Wicca for One: The Path of Solitary Witchcraft

“a religion of initiation”
― Raymond Buckland, Wicca for One: The Path of Solitary Witchcraft

“religion as “a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man, which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life.”
― Raymond Buckland, Wicca for One: The Path of Solitary Witchcraft

“Four types of candles are used in the rituals: altar candles, offertory candles, astral candles, and day candles.”
― Raymond Buckland, Practical Candle Burning: Spells & Rituals for Every Purpose

“To dress a candle you anoint it with the oil, rubbing it into the candle from the center toward the end…Always rub in the same direction; from the center out to one end, then from the center out to the other end. While dressing the candle you should be thinking—concentrating—hard on the subject, problem, or question at hand.”
― Raymond Buckland, Practical Candle Burning: Spells & Rituals for Every Purpose

“Certainly there has been a long history of people fooled by con artists pretending to be mediums, and bilking the bereaved of large sums of money on the pretext of putting them in contact with their deceased loved ones. Yet there has also been a large number of fraudulent insurance salesmen, television evangelist preachers, investment consultants, bankers, politicians, etc.”
― Raymond Buckland, Llewellyn's Truth About Spirit Contact

“Wicca as an accepted everyday practice around the world. Today it is the fastest growing religious movement in America.”
― Raymond Buckland, Wicca for One: The Path of Solitary Witchcraft

“Sympathetic magic is based on the principle that like attracts like.”
― Raymond Buckland, Practical Candle Burning: Spells & Rituals for Every Purpose

“you can still draw down the Goddess into you.”
― Raymond Buckland, Wicca for One: The Path of Solitary Witchcraft

“All worship the same deities”
― Raymond Buckland, Wicca for One: The Path of Solitary Witchcraft