Don Webb > Quotes

“The nature and purpose of Xeper is hidden in the myth of the contendings of Set and Horus. In the Temple there are two views of Xeper. One is the Nietzschian view that Xeper is the process of becoming who you are. That is to say, becoming reflects being. The second view is that Xeper is free willed; you can become anything you want to. Neither of these ideas is actually exclusive. Let’s see why.”
― Don Webb, Overthrowing the Old Gods: Aleister Crowley and the Book of the Law

“Crowley’s self submitting not to a god but to his Self, the Left-Hand Path was remanifested in the West. The roots of this had been developing in the words of Friedrich Nietzsche and the magick of Paschal Beverly Randolph and the yoga-tantra blend that Pierre Bernard had brought to the American West Coast,”
― Don Webb, Overthrowing the Old Gods: Aleister Crowley and the Book of the Law

“Most people create their first Selves to deal with a bad situation, the death of a parent, the loss of a home, or the loss of their first boyfriend or girlfriend. These Selves aren't usually very well made, but they are the forces that awaken us to the need to create ourselves out of the materials of our life.”
― Don Webb

“John had written that normal fantasy ("normal" in the T.S. Kuhn sense) was written for the moderately educated class from suffering ennui. It was for folks stuck doing dull, repetitive work, growing old while not getting laid half often or variously enough, watching other, less deserving people (the privileged and the crooks) scoop up your share of fun. So then the fantasy generates the exciting world where you're given a heroic purpose and an opportunity to use those very powers you have suspected that you had but never have been able to locate and use, except in destructive ways when shit-faced.”
― Don Webb, The Double: An Investigation

“John had written that normal fantasy ("normal" in the T.S. Kuhn sense) was written for the moderately educated class suffering from ennui. It was for folks stuck doing dull, repetitive work, growing old while not getting laid half often or variously enough, watching other, less deserving people (the privileged and the crooks) scoop up your share of fun. So then the fantasy generates the exciting world where you're given a heroic purpose and an opportunity to use those very powers you have suspected that you had but never have been able to locate and use, except in destructive ways when shit-faced.”
― Don Webb, The Double: An Investigation