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“The danger of delusion was made worse, by the love of delusion. What's best for me and what is worst for me, the thing I most ought to do and the thing I most ought not to do, look very much alike. In my heart of hearts I may know which is which - but then a spirit of perversity makes me want to choose wrongly. Great psychic perturbation always surrounds great beauty”
― Mark Booth, The Secret History of the World

“Man is under the illusion that thoughts are enclosed in his skull, but they are only reflected there.” Rudolf Steiner”
― Mark Booth, The Sacred History: How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our World

“On the plane of illusion the divine fire is the divine wrath.” Rudolf Steiner”
― Mark Booth, The Sacred History: How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our World

“Whole dimensions lie glistening on the dark side of even the most dull and commonplace thought.”
― Mark Booth, The Secret History of the World

“The unlucky fact that our current mechanistic materialism rests on muddled, outdated notions of matter isn’t often mentioned today. We can’t approach important mind-body topics such as consciousness or the origins of life while we still treat matter in 17th century style as if it were dead, inert stuff . . . We need a new mind-body paradigm.”
― Mark Booth, The Sacred History: How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our World

“The danger of delusion was made worse, by the love of delusion. What is best for me and what is worst for me, the thing I most ought to do and the thing I most ought not to do, look very much alike. In my heart of hearts I may know which is which - but then a spirit of perversity makes me want to choose wrongly. Great psychic perturbation always surrounds great beauty.”
― Mark Booth, The Secret History of the World

“There is something horrible in life. We don’t know what it is, but it is coming toward us whether fast or slow, from in front or behind, from inside or out, or in a strange knight’s move through a dimension we do not know.”
― Mark Booth, The Sacred History: How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our World

“The world, then, is a place of mutating paradoxes. Just when we feel certain, we are met by the opposite of what we expected. The Chinese sage Lieh Tzu, who lived shortly after Jesus Christ, said: When the eye can make out the pointed tip of a single hair, it is about to go blind. When an ear can make out the beating wings of a gnat, it is about to go deaf. When the tongue can distinguish between the taste of the water from one river and the water of another, it is about to lose the sense of taste. When the nose can tell the difference between the smell of burning silk and that of burning linen, it is about to lose the ability to smell. When the body takes special pleasure in sprinting, its limbs are about to stiffen. When the mind distinguishes very acutely between right and wrong, it is about to make a mistake.”
― Mark Booth, The Sacred History: How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our World

“God then made Abraham a promise: “Look now toward heaven and see the stars. Thy seed shall be like them.” (Genesis 15:5) As with the Melchizedek passage, there is a secret meaning to this promise. God doesn’t just mean that Abraham’s descendants will be as numerous as the stars, but also that they will be ordered like the stars. They will be ordered into twelve tribes, as the stars are ordered in the twelve constellations of the zodiac, and their destiny will be mapped out according to the movements of the angels of the stars and the planets—according to a unified plan and pattern.”
― Mark Booth, The Sacred History: How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our World

“… O mother wilderness”
― Mark Booth, The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies

“1 Corinthians 8.5: “Even though there be so called gods whether in heaven or on earth—and indeed there are such gods—yet for us there is one God.”
― Mark Booth, The Sacred History: How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our World

“Noah’s ark. Legend has it that the only animal that missed the ark was the unicorn, which therefore became extinct. This is an obvious depiction of the diminishing of the powers of the Third Eye. As the waters of the deluge closed over Atlantis, the era of Imagination ended. The subconscious was formed.”
― Mark Booth, The Secret History of the World

“Abraham was the founder of monotheism because he intuited a great Cosmic Mind behind everything, planning everything. Monotheism did not mean that there were no other gods or spiritual beings but that there was a unified plan in the world and—crucially—that humankind would have to develop the faculty of intelligence in order to discover that plan. Because of monotheism humankind would be enabled to make sense of the whole of life and the cosmos, and in order to be able to do that, would develop the faculty for sustained abstract intellectual thought.”
― Mark Booth, The Sacred History: How Angels, Mystics and Higher Intelligence Made Our World