∽ Summits Of Eternal Night ∼ Occultic Quotes & Excerpts

Below, is an ongoing thread of occult-related quotes and passages that I have found either personally enlightening, or uniquely inspirational in my journey as a practitioner of these Arts, thus far.  They may be sourced from various occult works and grimoires I have studied, other practicing occultists, philosophers, or seekers of truth (modern or historical)... including inspirational characters from film, or even from my own personal communion with various Spirits themselves. ✦ Esoteric enlightenment, is wherever you dare to find it.

⬩ I hope you enjoy them, however they speak to you...

♦“[In] the legendary wonder-world of Theurgy... all paradoxes seem to obtain actually, contradictions coexist logically, the effect is greater than the cause and the shadow more than the substance.  Therein the visible melts into the unseen, the invisible is manifested openly, motion from place to place is accomplished without traversing the intervening distance, matter passes through matter.  There, two straight lines may enclose a space; space has a fourth dimension, and untrodden fields beyond it; without metaphor and without evasion, the circle is mathematically squared.  There, life is prolonged, youth renewed, physical immortality secured.  There, earth becomes gold, and gold earth.  There, words and wishes possess creative power, thoughts are things, desire realizes its object.  There, also, the dead live and the hierarchies of extra-mundane intelligence are within easy communication, and become ministers or tormentors, guides or destroyers, of man.”♦

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♦“However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them.”♦

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♦“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.  To trace the remote in the immediate; the eternal in the ephemeral; the past in the present; the infinite in the finite; these are to me the springs of delight and beauty.”♦

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♦“For each of man's evils, a special demon exists.  You're looking at vengeance.

...Cruel, devious, pure-as-venom Vengeance.”♦

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♦“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.”♦

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♦“All philosophy and all truths espoused by philosophers, must be tested against their knowledge and ability to practice the Black Arts, for there remain convictions of transcendent Magickal experience that are beyond flowery affirmations and egghead argumentation.”♦

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♦“...So for magick to be successful, emotion must push a link outwards into the magickal universe, imagination must aim it towards the desired goal, and feeling must affirm the reality of that which is sought.  Full success will not come on the first try; for some people, not even on the fiftieth. It takes time to condition the mind to the proper performance of these practices.  But once a single success is attained, additional successes follow at more frequent intervals.”♦

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♦“The power of faith can be a strong force, but the power of knowing is even stronger.”♦

♦“The deepest of powers are often the most subtle.  Something that most fail to realize...”♦

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♦“We were not, as I have said, in any sense childishly superstitious, but scientific study and  reflection had taught us that the known universe of three dimensions embraces the merest fraction of the whole cosmos of substance and energy.  In this case, an overwhelming preponderance of evidence from numerous authentic sources pointed to the tenacious existence of certain forces of great power and, so far as the human point of view is concerned, exceptional malignancy.”♦

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♦“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s.  I will not reason and compare; my business is to create.”♦

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♦“Don’t only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.”♦

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♦“Everything is energy and that's all there is to it.  Match the frequency of the reality you want, and you cannot help but get that reality.”♦

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♦“Think less, my pretty... and know more.”♦

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♦“The fundamental principle underlying all justifications of war, from the point of view of human personality, is ‘heroism’.  War, it is said, offers man the opportunity to awaken the hero who sleeps within him.  War breaks the routine of comfortable life; by means of its severe ordeals, it offers a transfiguring knowledge of life, life according to death.  The moment the individual succeeds in living as a hero, even if it is the final moment of his earthly life, weighs infinitely more on the scale of values than a protracted existence spent consuming monotonously among the trivialities of cities.  From a spiritual point of view, these possibilities make up for the negative and destructive tendencies of war, which are one-sidedly and tendentiously highlighted by pacifist materialism.  War makes one realize the relativity of human life and therefore also the law of a ‘more-than-life’, and thus war has always an anti-materialist value, a spiritual value.”♦

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♦“Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.”♦

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♦“Real esotericism was not just dressing up in handsome robes and manipulating symbols for the sake of so doing.  It was knowing how to apply the meaning of such symbols to Life itself, for the purpose of altering or directing its energy in accordance with intention.  For example, a Magical Sword was not the physical symbol one handles in Temple practice, but its qualities as applied to the human being.  - Flexibility, sharpness, keenness, brightness, pointedness of action, and everything else to be thought of in connection with a well-balanced blade.”♦

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♦“Your mind will answer most questions, if you learn to relax... and wait for the answer.”♦

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♦“A trained occultist, especially if of high grade, has an exceedingly magnetic personality, and this is apt to prove disturbing to those who are unaccustomed to high-tension psychic forces. For whereas the person who is ripe for development will unfold rapidly in the presence of a high-grade initiate, the person who is not ready may find these influences profoundly disturbing.”♦

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♦“Chance favors the prepared mind, but providence favors the prepared heart.”♦

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[Father Karras: “If you're the Devil, why not make the straps disappear?”]

♦“That's much too vulgar a display of power, Karras.”♦

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♦“At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet an hour.  No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.”♦

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♦“Emptiness which is conceptually liable to be mistaken for sheer nothingness, is in fact the reservoir of infinite possibilities.”♦

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♦“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience.  We are spiritual beings having a human experience.”♦

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[Who are you?!]

♦“...Explorers, in the further regions of experience.

Demons to some, angels to others.”♦

♦“...It is not hands that call us.  It is Desire!”♦

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