“Dreams are imperfections of sleep; even so is consciousness the imperfection of waking.
Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life.
Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness.
Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown”
― The Book of Lies
Dreams are impurities in the circulation of the blood; even so it's consciousness a disorder of life.
Dreams are without proportion, without good sense, without truth; so also is consciousness.
Awake from dream, the truth is known: awake from waking. The truth is: The Unknown”
― The Book of Lies
“It is the mark of the mind untrained to take its own processes as valid for all men, and its own judgments for absolute truth.”
― Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law
― Magical and Philosophical Commentaries on The Book of the Law
“We [of Thelema] are whole-hearted extroverts; the penalty of restricting oneself is anything from neurosis to down right lunacy; in particular, melancholia.”
― Magick Without Tears
― Magick Without Tears
“What if we choose not to do the things we are supposed to do? The principal gain is a sense of an authentic act – and an authentic life. It may be a short one, but it is an authentic one, and that's a lot better than those short lives full of boredom. The principal loss is security. Another is respect from the community. But you gain the respect of another community, the one that is worth having the respect of.”
― Myth & the Body - A colloquy with Joseph Campbell
― Myth & the Body - A colloquy with Joseph Campbell
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