Quotes about magick

Peter J. Carroll - Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick

Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing?Have you declared yourself enlightened?Damn your weak philosophies a pox and a pestilence your despicable sloth and arrogance.

H.S. Crow - Lunora and the Monster King

Let my sight end. Let the dark tides of Nyx ebb away beneath the white sands of null. Let our pale mother spread once more!

Lawren Leo - Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

The earth is a mosaic, and most fail to notice the gossamer tesserae floating down from the realm of the mind that form its images of beauty and horror.

Anthon St. Maarten - Divine Living: The Essential Guide To Your True Destiny

In this lifetime we are like Superman who must remain disguised as the nerdy newspaper journalist Clark Kent, or Harry Potter and his friends who are not allowed to do magic while they are on holiday, away from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry... but even Harry Potter and Clark Kent get to tap into their ‘special powers’ once in a while, especially when the going gets tough.

Chris Dee - Cat-Tales Book 3

Well then, take this thought with you for the dark hours to come: It is a ludicrous fiction that love conquers all, but it can, in fact, conquer quite a lot. I am Iason of the Blood, Knight of Arthur, King of the Britons, reborn into dark service in the year of Our Lord five hundred and sixty. My power is vast, and for none to arrogate but by my will and decree. My services are engaged, Selina. Tell me what you need to ease your pain in this, and it is yours.

Charbel Tadros -

Magick is not a supernatural power granted by spirits or demons. True magick is a natural power which exists in every person, and we have neglected it because of misguided principles.

Amit Ray - Mindfulness Living in the Moment - Living in the Breath

Every moment is auspicious. There is always some magic in it.

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

Every spoken sentence beginning with ‘I Am’ is a powerful spell exhaled into action. Describe yourself wisely.

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

You are the most powerful tool in your life. Use your energy, your thoughts and your magick wisely!

Robin Sacredfire -

The law of manifestation operates like a triangle: First, know what you want and visualize it as if you already had it; Second, see it behind the illusion of reality, practice it in your decisions, choose the people you hang out with, etc; Third, believe, have faith and work on your emotions to be at the right frequency. This triangle of manifestation is one of the secrets of many religions: Christianity, Scientology, and Freemasonry. In Masonry is seen as "heart, mind and desire"; in Scientolog

Lawren Leo - Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

Jagged needle, wicked liesFrom under the skin, pluck evil eyes.Destiny change from pain and coldNow that you pay in blood and soul.

Jan Fries - Visual Magick: A Manual of Freestyle Shamanism

All art moves between the extremes.

Aleister Crowley -

Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Mystic, can never rest

Roger Zelazny - Lord of Light

Then every man would be as a god, you see. The result of this, of course, would be that there would no longer be any gods, only men. We would give them knowledge of the sciences and the arts, which we possess, and in so doing we would destroy their simple faith and remove all basis for their hoping that things will be better—for the best way to destroy faith or hope is to let it be realized.

Frank L. DeSilva - and All Ways

She was remembering His gaze, those deep pools of blue, crystalline in nature, peering deep into her soul. She remembered the first night she had looked into that darkness – no, into that light in his eyes – they were level and straight, kind and compassionate, without any ado, Her hands in His, offerings of comfort and concern for Her station, the concern she felt for those close to Her, each to their own heaven or hell, and the law of attraction began to build.

Luis Marques - Book of Orion - Liber Aeternus

There is no greater power than the one others do not believe you possess.

Johnny Worthen - Beatrysel

The perplexity, the potential— God’s own crucible was not for angels.

Aleister Crowley - Diary of a Drug Fiend

I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.

Peter J. Carroll -

There is no part of one’s beliefs about oneself which cannot be modified by sufficiently powerful psychological techniques. There is nothing about oneself which cannot be taken away or changed. The proper stimuli can, if correctly applied, turn communists into fascists, saints into devils, the meek into heroes, and vice-versa. There is no sovereign sanctuary within ourseles which represents our real nature. There is nobody at home in the internal fortress. Everything we cherish as our ego, every

Solange nicole -

Life should be full of- Compassion, Peace, Companionship, Honor, Love, Honesty, Joy, Rapture, Euphoria, Friendship, Family, Spiritual Enrichment, Enlightenment, Trust, Truth, Loyalty, Passion, Cultural Enrichment, Unity, Serenity, Zen, Wonder, Respect, Beauty of All Kinds, Balance of all Creation, Philosophy, Adventure, Art, Happiness, Bliss, Serendipity, Kismet, Fantasy, Positivity, Yin, Yang, Color, Variety, Excitement, Sharing, Fun, Sound, Paradise, Magick, Tenderness, Strength, Devotion, Cou

Alan Moore - Watchmen

The disciplines of physical exercise, meditation and study aren't terribly esoteric. The means to attain a capability far beyond that of the so-called ordinary person are within the reach of everyone, if their desire and their will are strong enough. I have studied science, art, religion and a hundred different philosophies. Anyone could do as much. By applying what you learn and ordering your thoughts in an intelligent manner it is possible to accomplish almost anything. Possible for an 'ordina

Dion Fortune - Esoteric Orders and Their Work and The Training and Work of the Initiate

The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet—medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in critical cases there is no time to wait for the slow processes of dietetics, so it must be either medicines or nothing. Nevertheless, drugs are no substitute for right diet and wholesome regime, and although magic enables a speedy and potent result to be attained, is is only by means of right understanding and right ethics that the positi

H.S. Crow -

You deny the existence of magic. It's tragic. Aren't you a child born from the ashes of stars? Born from light to decide a life?

Rue - An Average Curse

The only thing you must do, flesh-child, is die. The rest is but a trick of light in the foam on the waves.

Kenneth Grant - Outside the Circles Of Time

The twin aspects of genius, the passive and the active, are possessed by the fully realized artist; they also form the necessary equipment of the Adept. Yet in very few people are these twin aspects manifested. Nearly everyone has a capacity for the passive aspect, which involves some sort of appreciation of aesthetic values. There are few people totally unresponsive to the beauties of nature, and none at all that is not responsive to its ferocious manifestations.Fewer are able to respond profou

Lawren Leo - Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

On any given night the stars are endless losses or endless gains. One for the love you experience and one for the love you lose. One for the unfulfilled wish and one for the wish yet to come.

Phil Hine - Rebels and Devils: The Psychology of Liberation

The system loves resistance. Resistance is often creative and it feeds on creativity until the subversive becomes just another pre-packaged lifestyle on special offer. So Cease to Resist. Relax and enjoy the PandaemonAeon. Believe everything and anything. Seek not proof, but take pleasure in your choice of belief. Wipe that superior sneer of your face and try smiling (if only inwardly) at the people/institutions/beliefs that you've waged your personal war against. Wouldn't it be more fun if you

Johnny Worthen - Beatrysel

There can be no light without shadow.

Jacob Nordby -

We wait, starving for moments of high magic to inspire us, but life is full of common enchantment waiting for our alchemists eyes to notice.

D.A. Henneman - Sea of Dreams

If only they could live in the twilight of their dreams, in the tiny moment before the harsh light of reality found them, perhaps they could be happy.

Anthon St. Maarten -

Dare to dream! If you did not have the capability to make your wildest wishes come true, your mind would not have the capacity to conjure such ideas in the first place. There is no limitation on what you can potentially achieve, except for the limitation you choose to impose on your own imagination. What you believe to be possible will always come to pass - to the extent that you deem it possible. It really is as simple as that.

Aleister Crowley - The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography

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.

Peter J. Carroll - Psybermagick: Advanced Ideas in Chaos Magick

As belief in one's capabilities self-evidently leads to increasing capabilities, magicians consider it worthwhile to believe in their ability to accomplish the impossible, even if they only succeed at this occasionally.

Aleister Crowley - Magick in Theory and Practice

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.

Thomm Quackenbush - Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

I honor the divine on a daily basis, but I want to know that the greatest magick in my life is living authentically with what I have and can do.

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

Witchcraft involves being willing to understand and embrace your true self. It is about exploring your light and learning to celebrate your darkness.

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

When a woman embraces her inner witch, she finds new strength. She is overtaken by true serenity. She creates order where there was none before. Her eyes have now been opened.

Thomm Quackenbush - Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

There is a theory that men do not need Paganism because they have endless avenues of societal power available. Why use spells when one can get a bank loan with little trouble? The world already bends over backward to accommodate men, so why perfect the art of magickally shaping it?

C. JoyBell C. -

Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science.

C. JoyBell C. -

Walking under Dusk, Moonlit leaf shadows were cast on my skin from the trees above, every step I took was taking a step deeper into magic. Silent whispers of mystical mouthes pulling me in deeper. Then the lights from inside the house turned on. A few seconds later, the fence lights went on. Just like that, the leafy ghosts on my skin ran away and the faery voices ran home. It seems like the creations of man kill magic in so many ways— even the light bulb does this! Oh to be a race of people des

Thomm Quackenbush - Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Most magick I have experienced can be written off as a stew of psychology and coincidence, and I truly believe this is where magick is best worked.

Thomm Quackenbush - Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Magick need not be a crutch, but it is hard to argue that anything you lean on in lieu of building your own strength weakens resolve.

Thomm Quackenbush - We Shadows

Sex was this primal connection like no magick she had ever known, even separated by a millimeter of latex. She knew that some combined the two and, while she could see how this would improve the magick, it would dilute the sex.

Aleister Crowley - Magick Without Tears

The mystic's idea of deliberately stupefying and stultifying himself is an "abomination unto the Lord." This, by the way, does not conflict with the rules of Yoga. That kind of suppression is comparable to the restrictions in athletic training, or diet in sickness.

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

Witchcraft is a path of personal freedom.

Jacques Yonnet - Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City

Old Hubert must have had a premonition of his squalid demise. In October he said to me, ‘Forty-two years I’ve had this place. I’d really like to go back home, but I ain’t got the energy since my old girl died. And I can’t sell it the way it is now. But anyway before I hang my hat up I’d be curious to know what’s in that third cellar of mine.’The third cellar has been walled up by order of the civil defence authorities after the floods of 1910. A double barrier of cemented bricks prevents the ris

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

A witch does not need to fix problems. She fixes the energy AROUND problems. Then the problems fix themselves…

Aleister Crowley - The Book of the Law

There is no law beyond Do what thou wilt.Love is the law, love under will.

Lawren Leo - and Visualization

For a thought to manifest on the earth realm, a sacrifice must occur.

Jason G. Miller - Financial Sorcery: Magical Strategies to Create Real and Lasting Wealth

Those who seek only the rapture of divine union and quiescence of the mystic state are likewise not on our path. Such navel gazers lose the script for why they are even incarnated in the first place. To the sorcerer there is not much point in moments of primordial awareness if it does not carry over into the living levels of consciousness; no purpose to receiving the uncreated and clear light, if one cannot reflect it outward through world and deed; and no purpose in being a sovereign if you can

Thomm Quackenbush - Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

The witch who claims to forbear her magick for fear of causing the next Indian tsunami is really saying that she is powerful enough to kill thousands of innocent strangers when all she meant to do was water her mugwort. She can't be challenged to produce evidence of this, because doing could provoke earthquakes and Africanized bee attacks.

J.Adam Snyder -

Magick is the manipulation of the Laws of Cause-and-Effect in accordance with one's Will, via states of Higher Consciousness.

Dacha Avelin -

Witches are liberated from their own fears and limited thinking. In turn, their presence has the power to liberate and consciously expand others.

Peter J. Carroll - Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic

Many scientific disciplines begin by not observing any sort of vital spark or consciousness in material events and proceed to deny that these things exist in living things, including themselves. Because consciousness does not fit into their mechanistic schemes they declare it illusory. Magicians make exactly the reverse argument. Observing consciousness in themselves and animals, they are magnanimous enough to extend it to all things to some degree—trees, amulets, planetary bodies, and all. This

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

Magick happens when you step into who you truly are and embrace that which fulfills your soul.

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

When a witch embodies self-love, her energy becomes magnetic and her sense of possibility becomes contagious.

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

A Witch awakens within herself qualities of the elements and forces of nature.

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

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.

Dacha Avelin - Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

Our inner Witch isn't something we acquire.It's already within us. It's something we become ready and willing to experience. Something we realize we ARE.

Dacha Avelin -

For centuries we have been ripped apart by the hands of others as well as ourselves. Our personalities have been conditioned to become disconnected from our most Earthly ancestral knowledge. The days of disconnectedness are over. We must begin anew.

Dacha Avelin -

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.

Penny Reilly - Book 1 Spinning Colours Darkly

...where your mind goes...energy flows

Lady Svetlana -

Under the mystichood ofNameless Bride, we grope in Her Sacred Darkness for plasmatic encounter, the fifth ionized state of matter. Our mundane sight of differentation and separation recedes into the magickal Abyss of Blackness where all is touch. We feel each other as tactile presences whose extended dimension stretches to the stars only to coalesce beyond galactic expanses in the white and worm-holes of Her ever spiraling Gown of Worlds beyond Worlds. Let us feel Her concrescence as we stroke e

S.R. Hardy -

The self may be extinguished, but there are many selves and the Will creates them.

Peter Redgrove - The Black Goddess and the Unseen Real: Our Uncommon Senses and Their Common Sense

The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them.

Philip Carr-Gomm - The Book of English Magic

The risks involved in the pursuit of magic are--put simply--either getting frightened by unpleasant perceptions or becoming deluded. Unfortunately it is possible to suffer from both symptoms at the same time.

Hermann Hesse -

If a night-moth were to concentrate its will on flying to a star or some equally unattainable object, it wouldn't succeed. Only, it wouldn't even try in the first place. A moth confines its search to what has sense and value for it, what it needs, what is indispensable to its life... if I imagined that I wanted under all circumstances to get to the North Pole, then to achieve it I would have to desire it strongly enough that my whole being was ruled by it. But if I were to decide to will that th

Aleister Crowley - Moonchild

The nails from a suicide's coffin, and the skull of the parricide, were of course no trouble; for Vesquit never traveled without these household requisites.

Lita Burke - Forever Boy

Wizard’s work was a pleasure and a madness. No wonder the university magicians rambled at times like daft bastards.

Lawren Leo - Love's Shadow: Nine Crooked Paths

Every spell is a journey.

Zeena Schreck -

The core practice of magic is: The execution of a willed intent to create change in the material world, which either defies, hastens or purifies the consequences of natural cause and effect.

Michael W. Ford - Adamu - Luciferian Tantra and Sex Magick

Black Magick is the process of self-transformation through an antinomian initiatory structure, Black meaning the hidden wisdom, power of darkness, dreams and staging the reality you wish and Magick being the process to ascend, become immortal in spirit.

Phil Hine - Condensed Chaos: An Introduction to Chaos Magic

One cannot shape the world without being reshaped in the process. Each gain of power requires its own sacrifice.

D.A. Henneman - Sea of Dreams

He understood her affinity to the water, inspiring as it was beautiful, and soothing to the soul. Standing there that morning, he realized he would never be able to look at the ocean again without thinking of her, and somehow he was still comforted by that thought.

D.A. Henneman - Sea of Dreams

I like to believe magic is all around us, finding its way into everyday life one miracle at a time.

Thomm Quackenbush - Flies to Wanton Boys

[H]e had heard of, but given little credence to, magic. There was always someone talking of folk remedies and charms, but it seemed to him the inclination of fools misunderstanding chance.

Karen Foxlee - Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy

The problem with magic was that it made her feel very alone.

Karen Foxlee - Ophelia and the Marvelous Boy

Ophelia,' said the boy. He said it very quietly. She didn't like the way he said that at all. He sounded sad and as though he expected more from her.'And how do you know my name anyways?' she said. 'I never told you it, not once.''I heard it once, a long time ago.'He was full of mysterious sentences like that.

Dianna Hardy - The Spell of Summer

Then, things get hard, because once you know magic exists, you have to decide whether to be the bystander, or the magician … and we were all born to be magicians.

Thomm Quackenbush - Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

I do not want to credit my life to spells and rituals, cushioning me from the consequences of living.

Thomm Quackenbush - Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

I reserve magick for necessities, a bit like the good china. It has a time and a place, but eating peanut butter sandwiches off it each morning chips and devalues it.

C. JoyBell C. -

The most fundamental, basic need in magick, is the development of the will. The magus says, “I will, and not heaven nor hell can stop me.” It is in this forming and growing, creating, of the will, where heaven and hell learns to follow the will of the magus. A person who wants to develop the soul must never say, “Maybe” or “If I see a sign” because the master creates his own signs. If you need a star to align in front of a tree because that to you would be a sign, then you make the star align wi

Lawren Leo - and Visualization

Desire creates a starting point. Without it, no magic can be put into action.

Jason Louv - Thee Psychick Bible: Thee Apocryphal Scriptures ov Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Thee Third Mind ov Thee Temple ov Ps

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

L.H. -

Some do magic, some are god. Most seems a lie, yet most is true. It all depends on the definitions of words within ones illusion of the world.

The Silver Elves - a Healthy Body and a Magical Life

My cooking spoon,My magic wand, Of this dish,You will be fond.

Bangambiki Habyarimana - Book of Wisdom

You can only make magic if you act at the right time when the right conditions are in place

Robin Sacredfire -

Very few are brave enough to look at the portals to higher dimensions of conscience that open before their eyes, either they’re confronting them from one perspective or another. These portals represent amazing opportunities for the ones with the courage to see them and cross them. But only a very powerful person possesses the power to open one for others. And if you think that person is what it seems, you will neglect the magician hiding behind the illusion.

Dennis Wheatley - The Devil Rides Out

Take that absurd fool Elipas Levi who was supposed to be the Grand High Whatnot in Victorian times. Did you ever read his book, The Doctrine and Ritual of Magic? In his introduction he professes that he is going to tell you all about the game and that he’s written a really practical book, by the aid of which anybody who likes can raise the devil, and perform all sorts of monkey tricks. He drools on for hundreds of pages about fiery swords and tetragrams and the terrible aqua poffana, but does he

Luis Marques - Asetian Bible

To become an Asetian is to die and be reborn. To forget all you have learned and learn all you have forgotten. ☥

Luis Marques -

In darkness lies a mystery that has the power to shine brighter than true light. ☥

Luis Marques -

It is safer to face a strong enemy in the field of battle, than to fight a war by the side of a weak friend.

Luis Marques -

When fully united, without ego or weakness, we become the greatest invisible force this world has ever witnessed.

Luis Marques - Asetian Bible

An Asetian never tries to talk louder than the crowd surrounding him. An Asetian becomes that crowd.

Luis Marques - Asetian Bible

You don't find Truth, but Truth finds you. ☥

Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Reign of Terror Volume 2: Great Victorian Horror Stories

You will remember that Albertus Magnus, after describing minutely the process by which spirits may be invoked and commanded, adds emphatically that the process will instruct and avail only to the few - that a man must be born a magician! - that is, born with a peculiar physical temperament, as a man is born a poet. Rarely are men in whose constitution lurks this occult power of the highest order of intellect - usually in the intellect there is some twist, perversity, or disease.' ("The House And

Lita Burke -

His harmonic words could weave the fabric of time or spin matter from nothingness if the mood suited him.

Lita Burke - Forever Boy

Observing the wizard’s high magic was his biggest privilege as Kadmeion’s assistant.

Mary Faulkner - Complete Idiot's Guide to Women's Spirituality

The logic behind magic is that we create what we are imagining.

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