{"quotes":[{"text":"The world of “magick” is, nine times out of ten, a world where people can hide their deep-set insecurity and personal damage behind illusion, constructed identities and claims to privileged knowledge, power or spiritual status. A gaudy carnival magic show, conducted with props that have long since begun to disintegrate with age, that seems to function only to distract people from the real magic that is occurring all around them, in every facet of their lives, every day of their lives. While the rituals and magical techniques of the Temple seem overly simplistic in comparison with the loftier Qabalahs, tables of correspondences and secret formulae of “high” magick, they have one thing which high magick quite often forgets: a concrete function.","author":"Jason Louv","tags":["magic","magick"],"id":3383,"author_id":"Jason+Louv"},{"text":"Becoming a Witch isn't something we acquire. The Witch is already within us. She is someone we become ready and willing to embrace. Someone we realize we ARE.","author":"Dacha Avelin","tags":["magick","occult","old-world-witchcraft","self-development","self-empowerment","self-love","witch","witchcraft"],"id":7222,"author_id":"Dacha+Avelin"},{"text":"Sometimes the dim veil between sanity and insanity is perception.","author":"Luis Marques","tags":["ak","asetian-bible","asetianists","asetians","asetka","book-of-orion","inspirational","kemet","knowledge","magic","magical","magick","occult","power","science","teachings","wisdom"],"id":9061,"author_id":"Luis+Marques"},{"text":"One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice.","author":"Phil Hine","tags":["chaos","lesson","magic","magick"],"id":9328,"author_id":"Phil+Hine"},{"text":"Witchcraft involves being willing to understand and embrace your true self. It is about exploring your light and learning to celebrate your darkness.","author":"Dacha Avelin","tags":["back-to-nature","darkness","inner-witch","magick","occult","old-world-witchcraft","self-development","self-improvement","self-love","witch","witchcraft"],"id":10106,"author_id":"Dacha+Avelin"},{"text":"In Demons of the Flesh, Zeena describes how Shiva and Shakti are actually ‘two sides of the same deity’. The goal of the initiate on the left-hand path is to become ‘this bisexual twin godhead’ and activate a state of perceptual sexual ecstasy within one's own consciousness. Zeena points out that a corresponding symbolism is found in the western hermeticism in the idea of ‘the inner androgyne.’--About Zeena Schreck by Malin Fitger 'Contemporary notions of Kundalini, its background and role within new Western religiosity,' University of Stockholm, 2004.","author":"Zeena Schreck","tags":["action","buddhism","dissident","initiation","jivanmukti","left-hand-path","liberation","magic","magick","magick-and-faith","materialism-versus-spiritualism","outcasts","revolutionary","self-examination","shamanism","sorcery","spiritual-journey","spiritual-transformation","spirituality","subversion","taboo-breaking","taboos","taking-action","tantra","tantric-buddhism","theology","vamamarga","women-warriors","zeena-schreck"],"id":11967,"author_id":"Zeena+Schreck"},{"text":"Desire creates a starting point. Without it, no magic can be put into action.","author":"Lawren Leo","tags":["creation","desire","magic","magick","wicca"],"id":21380,"author_id":"Lawren+Leo"},{"text":"Indubitably, Magick is one of the subtlest and most difficult of the sciences and arts. There is more opportunity for errors of comprehension, judgement and practice than in any other branch of physics.","author":"Aleister Crowley","tags":["1929","art","judgement","magick","opportunity","physics","practice","science"],"id":27719,"author_id":"Aleister+Crowley"},{"text":"There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.Love is the law, love under will.","author":"Aleister Crowley","tags":["aleister-crowley","book-of-the-law","law","magick","occult"],"id":34255,"author_id":"Aleister+Crowley"},{"text":"In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them.","author":"Aleister Crowley","tags":["magick","reality"],"id":34414,"author_id":"Aleister+Crowley"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":163,"pages":17,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}