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"Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers." --Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah

 

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"The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind." -- Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah

 

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"Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind." -- Violet M. Firth (Dion Fortune), The Machinery of the Mind.

 

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"The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast." --Dion Fortune, quoted in British esotericist and Fortune biographer Gareth Knight's Experience of the Inner Worlds

 

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"The driving forces of the universe, the framework upon which it is built up in all its parts, belong to another phase of manifestation than our physical plane, having other dimensions than the three to which we are habituated, and perceived by other modes of consciousness than those to which we are accustomed."--Dion Fortune, Psychic Self-Defense

 

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All the comics are sigils. "Sigil" as a word is out of date. All this magic stuff needs new terminology because it's not what people are being told it is at all. It's not all this wearying symbolic misdirection that's being dragged up from the Victorian Age, when no-one was allowed to talk plainly and everything was in coy poetic code. The world's at a crisis point and it's time to stop bullshitting around with Qabalah and Thelema and Chaos and Information and all the rest of the metaphoric smoke and mirrors designed to make the rubes think magicians are "special" people with special powers. It's not like that. Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. "Life" plus "significance" = magic.

 

Grant Morrison