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“There's no such thing as a mistake, really. It's just an opportunity to do something else.”
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“True magic therefore is the high knowledge of the more subtle powers that have not yet been acknowledged by science up to this date because the methods of scrutiny that have been applied so far do not suffice for their grasping, understanding and utilization, although the laws of magic are analogous to all official sciences of the world.”
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“A relationship can push us into having to confront certain areas of life, even if natally we are neither predisposed nor well equipped to cope in that area.”
― Relationships and How to Survive Them
― Relationships and How to Survive Them
“Osiris became the type and symbol of resurrection among the Egyptians of all periods, because he was a god who had been originally a mortal and had risen from the dead.”
― The Book of the Dead
― The Book of the Dead
“For the history of left-hand-path ideas, the all-important figure of Odin underwent a radical, yet predictable, splitting of image. He was—like all the other gods—portrayed as the epitome of evil. In parts of Germany, the speaking of his name was forbidden. It is for this reason that the modern German name for the day of the week usually called after him was renamed Mittwoch, “Mid-Week,” while Thor (German Donar) keeps his weekday name, Donnerstag. The original name survives in some German dialects as Wodenestag or Godensdach.28 However, even after Christian conversion he still retained his patronage over the ruling elite. All the Anglo-Saxon kings continued to claim descent from Woden,29 and in the English language he retains his weekday name, Wednesday (Woden’s day).”
― Lords of the Left-Hand Path: Forbidden Practices and Spiritual Heresies
― Lords of the Left-Hand Path: Forbidden Practices and Spiritual Heresies
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