{"quotes":[{"text":"Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!","author":"Aleister Crowley","tags":["life","occultism","the-occult","universe"],"id":13081,"author_id":"Aleister+Crowley"},{"text":"The cool enchantment of evening has arrived after the prostrating heat of summer's day and we lie quietly in anticipation of Your luminous appearance - Mysterious Selene, Whose Lunar Orb relieves the dark of night.","author":"Lady Svetlana","tags":["luna","moon","occult","occultism","witchcraft","witches"],"id":25116,"author_id":"Lady+Svetlana"},{"text":"If a palmist grasp my palm, and look into it, without seeing a single line, what would he read?","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["abnormal","confusion","decipher","empathy","lies","lines","michael-bassey-johnson","mystic","mystical","occultism","palm-reading","palmistry","paranormal","prediction","prognostication","psychic","psycopath","quest","question","questions","seer","strange"],"id":46220,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"A witch is wise. She has earned her wisdom. She has learned to love her shadows and has grown more beautiful because of it. She has proven she can stand comfortably within her powers. She has become the true embodiment of a witch.","author":"Dacha Avelin","tags":["magick","occult","occultism","old-world-witchcraft","self-development","self-empowerment","self-love","spellwork","witch","witchcraft"],"id":55854,"author_id":"Dacha+Avelin"},{"text":"Oh! Dione of Opalescent Skin Ethereal. Your oospheric containment disperses argentous streams of velvety rays that cradle recesses of soul in gossamer of beatific visions.La Luna! Your enigmatic smile. Your watery countenance stirs the imagination and bestows inspiration on those receptive to Your Sacred Gifts.","author":"Lady Svetlana","tags":["goddess","invocation","luna","magick","moon","occult","occultism","sisterhood","witchcraft","witches"],"id":64431,"author_id":"Lady+Svetlana"},{"text":"Quinn seemed to have become one of a jaded philosophical society, a group of arcane deviates. Their raison d'etre was a kind of mystical masochism, forcing initiates toward feats of occult daredevilry - 'glimpsing the inferno with eyes of ice', to take from the notebook a phrase that was repeated often and seemed a sort of chant of power. As I suspected, hallucinogenic drugs were used by the sect, and there was no doubt that they believed themselves communing with strange metaphysical venues. Their chief aim, in true mystical fashion, was to transcend common reality in the search for higher states of being, but their stratagem was highly unorthodox, a strange detour along the usual path toward positive illumination. Instead, they maintained a kind of blasphemous fatalism, a doomed determinism which brought them face to face with realms of obscure horror. Perhaps it was this very obscurity that allowed them the excitement of their central purpose, which seemed to be a precarious flirting with personal apocalypse, the striving for horrific dominion over horror itself.('The Dreaming In Nortown').","author":"Thomas Ligotti","tags":["apocalypse","arcane","blasphemous","blasphemy","fatalism","fear","hallucinogenic","hallucinogenic-drugs","higher-consciousness","horror","magick","metaphysical","mystical","mystical-encounter","mysticism","mystics","occult","occult-horror","occultism","philosophical-inquiry","sect","sects","terror","transcend"],"id":65926,"author_id":"Thomas+Ligotti"},{"text":"Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["astral","astral-projection","chakra","cosmic","death","dream","dreaming","dreamy","ethereal","etheric","extrasensory-perception","flesh","fly","flying","hypnotism","innermind","intuition","magic","mantra","meditation","medium","michael-bassey-johnson","mind","mystic","mystical","obe","occult","occultism","otherworld","out-of-body","paranormal","psychic","silver-cord","soul-travel","superhuman","supernatural","telepathic","telepathy","trance","transcendence","unworldly"],"id":99425,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Like the moon shining bright Up high with all its grace,I can only show you at night And hide half of my face.","author":"Ana Claudia Antunes","tags":["ambiguities","ambiguous-ending","amorous","betrayal","cheating-in-relationships","dark","dark-fiction","deceive","deceiving","decifer","enamorated","half-truths","hide","hide-feelings","illumination","illusion","in-love","lies","light","love","mischievous","moon","mysterious","mystery","mystical","mysticism","night","occult","occultism","optical-illusions","perceived-reality","romantic-love","shade","shadows","shining-bright","telling-lies","telling-stories","telling-the-truth","version","version-of-reality","versions-of-love","way"],"id":104833,"author_id":"Ana+Claudia+Antunes"},{"text":"This mundus tenebrosus, this shaddowy world of Mankind, is sunk into Night; there is not a Field without its Spirits, nor a City without its Daemons, and the Lunaticks speak Prophesies while the Wise men fall into the Pitte. We are all in the Dark, one with another. And, as the Inke stains the Paper on which it is spilt and slowly spreads to Blot out the Characters, so the Contagion of darkness and malefaction grows apace until all becomes unrecognizable. Thus it was with the Witches who were tryed by Swimming not long before, since once the Prosecution had commenced no Stop could be put to the raving Women who came forward: the number of Afflicted and Accused began to encrease and, upon Examination, more confess'd themselves guilty of Crimes than were suspected of. And so it went, till the Evil revealed was so great that it threatened to bring all into Confusion.And yet in the way of that Philosophie much cryed up in London and elsewhere, there are those like Sir Chris. Who speak only of what is Rational and what is Demonstrated, of Propriety and Plainness. Religion Not Mysterious is their Motto, but if they would wish the Godhead to be Reasonable why was it that when Adam heard that Voice in the Garden he was afraid unto Death? The Mysteries must become easy and familiar, it is said, and it has now reached such a Pitch that there are those who wish to bring their mathematicall Calculations into Morality, viz. The Quantity of Publick Good produced by any Agent is a compound Ratio of his Benevolence and Abilities, and such like Excrement. They build Edifices which they call Systems by laying their Foundacions in the Air and, when they think they are come to sollid Ground, the Building disappears and the Architects tumble down from the Clowds. Men that are fixed upon matter, experiment, secondary causes and the like have forgot there is such a thing in the World which they cannot see nor touch nor measure: it is the Praecipice into which they will surely fall.","author":"Peter Ackroyd","tags":["contagion","corruption","darkness","malefaction","morality","occult","occult-philosophy","occultism","rationality","witch","witch-trials","witches"],"id":105407,"author_id":"Peter+Ackroyd"},{"text":"When the devil wants to punish his worshippers, he uses the trick of karma.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["blame","danger","dangerous","death","decree","dying","end","evil","fiend","heartless","hurt","judgement","justice","karma","karmic","maim","nemesis","occultism","punish","satan","satanic","satanist","trial","worshippers-of-satan"],"id":137995,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":31,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}