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“We thought that replacing the singular, authoritative voice of the twentieth century newscaster with the digitally-enabled vox populi of the internet would forever change the narrative. All it did was ruin the spelling.”
― Pieces of Eight: Chaos Magic Essays and Enchantments
― Pieces of Eight: Chaos Magic Essays and Enchantments
“Civilisation is the tobacco of river spirits. They seem to crave it, to will it into being up and down their banks, even though the relationship appears damaging over the long term.”
― Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
― Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
“History may well be written by the victors, but victors change and if we do not unwrite history then the propaganda from the previous regime still stands.”
― Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
― Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
“When Michael Cremo visited Ukraine’s Dnepropetrovsk Historical Museum, the head of the archaeology collection, Dr Larisa Churilova, showed him artefacts that indicated an early Stone Age belief in reincarnation. Her reason for not publishing her findings was that the editors of journals are uncomfortable with cultural interpretations. They just want to print things like ‘a stone flake two centimetres long was found at a depth of one metre in the excavation.”
― Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
― Star.Ships: A Prehistory of the Spirits
“The Magician should devise for himself a definite technique for destroying "evil." The essence of such a practice will consist in training the mind and the body to confront things which case fear, pain, disgust, shame and the like. He must learn to endure them, then to become indifferent to them, then to become indifferent to them, then to analyze them until they give pleasure and instruction, and finally to appreciate them for their own sake, as aspects of Truth. When this has been done, he should abandon them, if they are really harmful in relation to health and comfort.”
― Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4
― Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4
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