Harri Linnera

“What difference is there, after all, between the narrative we find in fiction and that which we find in the myths and legends that make up scriptures and Tantras? If a story works - if it conveys a truth, elicits an emotional response, tells us something we did not know before and allows us to own that something - then it has much the same function as a scriptural text. The first dramas were religious in nature; the first theatrical performances were rituals.”
― Peter Levenda, The Dark Lord: H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, and the Typhonian Tradition in Magic

“Science fiction authors have made contributions to science, such as Arthur C. Clarke and his invention of geosynchronous satellite, among other ideas. Fantasy and horror authors make (unconscious) contributions to occultism and magic by identifying information at deep levels of the human psyche. By focusing on fear and horror, these authors directly address our most hidden nature, which is another way of saying that they open a Gate into the Mauve Zone.”
― Peter Levenda, The Dark Lord: H.P. Lovecraft, Kenneth Grant, and the Typhonian Tradition in Magic

“Lopuksi haluan kertoa eräästä viisaasta miehestä, jonka tunsin mutta joka on ikävä kyllä kuollut. Hän kysyi, uskonko että maailmaa voi muuttaa sillä tavalla, että kourallinen ihmisiä taistelee jonkin asian puolesta. Hän vastasi itse kysymykseensä, ja vastaus on yhtä yksinkertainen kuin tosi: Sillä tavalla maailmaa on aina muutettu.”
― Lotte Hammer, The Konrad Simonsen Collection

“Rather than a cognitive procedure of the intellect alone, Gnostic knowledge is experience, a lived experience of spiritual regeneration. It is a transforming knowledge, whose immediate effect is salvation.”
― Giovanni Filoramo, A History of Gnosticism