Hermetics Quotes

“He who grasps the truth of the Mental Nature of the Universe is well advanced on The Path to Mastery.”
― Three Initiates, The Kybalion: A Study of the Hermetic Philosophy of Ancient Egypt and Greece

“No one can successfully tell me that material things cannot bring happiness. For as the spirit is medicine to the bones; so is the happiness of the bones a medicine to the spirit. Without a soul, the body is dust; but without a body, the soul cannot fulfil destiny. Neither one is more important than the other; both are equally important. One will last longer than the other, yes, but while we are on this Earth, both are equally important. Surely money itself cannot make one happy; but it is what one does with money that makes one happy! If you do not know what to do with it, then it will not bring you happiness! But if you know what to do with it; there is no reason why it cannot bring you happiness. People think I am a very spiritual person; yes, this is true; but I have not achieved it through denial of the flesh. I have a new vision. I take pleasure in the pleasures of this world and I seek fulfilment in the answers of the spirit. I find happiness in the material and the physical things of this nature and I find joy in the connections I have with what is divine. Do I imagine myself on top of a mountain, detached from all the things I want to buy and to own? Never. My spirituality is not one of negative righteousness; my spirituality is one of the rose. It is whole and it is above as it is below.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“All people want to belong to some sort of hierarchy. Allow me to explain. The rich want to be the richest; the poor want to be the smartest; those who are both rich and smart want to be the better persons; the better persons want to go to heaven; those who are in heaven will look down upon those who are in hell... there is always some kind of hierarchy desired by everyone; even by those who claim the opposite of this. So how do you find true divinity? Divinity is found in those who reach down low; because it is those who are above who must reach down low, while it is those who are below who must constantly reach for what is above! And this is divinity. What is divine, is what will have a curiosity in what is below. There is no fear of becoming "tainted"; because what is lesser can never really taint what is greater. it is what is greater that is able to transform what is lesser. The alchemist must first find the mud, pick it up, before she is able to transform it into diamond. She must first reach into the swamp, in order to pull out roses.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“As above in consciousness, so below in matter”
― Michael Sharp, The Book of Light: The Nature of God, the Structure of Consciousness, and the Universe Within You

“Treating others with kindness is the first magical act the magician learns and the last one he masters.”
― Virgil*

“Many philosophers and theologians have grappled with the question of whether reality is a dream, or whether we are the dreamer or the dreamed. In Hermetic philosophy, the answer is both. We are but the dreams and thoughts of the Infinite Mind, but as microcosms of the Infinite Mind, we are also the dreamers.”
― Mat Auryn, Psychic Witch: A Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick & Manifestation

“Magic is knowledge suitable for a craft-guild, the expectation of the malignant or benign through the name of God, both through the names themselves and certainly through the names of things. Whence it follows that magic is knowledge about to be interpreted, because all a name is to be when a word should be a word, through each thing which a language is transmitted, if the magician might be able to write the letters down. Much is said, the knowledge is of words,... "

'Height of Sacred Magic', Berengario Ganell, 1346'.”
― Maxwell Lewis Latham