QUOTES

“When you consider the plight of your own existence as an individual, you have to take things a little more seriously.  This means that it would be wise to invoke the means by which you can release yourself of your own toxicity.  This includes your toxicity on the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual planes of existence.  Such activity requires sacrifice, a word that actually means “to make sacred.”  It does not mean you have to kill your pet.  You make your body sacred by clearing it of its impurities.  One can also clear themselves of emotional, mental and spiritual impurities.”

― Peter Moon, The Montauk Book of the Living

“Be careful, lest in casting out your demon you exorcise the best thing in you.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruits, but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit; neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. “Wherefore by their fruits, ye shall know them.”

— Matthew 7:15–20

“For I am I: ergo, the truth of myself; my own sphinx, conflict, chaos, vortex—asymmetric to all rhythms, oblique to all paths. I am the prism between black and white: mine own unison in duality.”

— Austin Osman Spare

“Darken your room, shut the door, empty your mind. Yet you are still in great company - the Numen and your Genius with all their media, and your host of elementals and ghosts of your dead loves — are there! They need no light by which to see, no words to speak, no motive to enact except through your own purely formed desire.”

— Austin Osman Spare

“The idea of the supernatural as being something over and above the natural is a killing idea”. In the Middle Ages this was the idea that finally turned that world into something like a wasteland, a land where people were living inauthentic lives, never doing a think they truly wanted to because the supernatural laws required them to live as directed by their clergy. In a wasteland, people are fulfilling purposes that are not properly theirs but have been put upon them as inescapable laws. This is a killer.... The spirit is really the bouquet of life. It is not something breathed into life, it comes out of life. This is one of the glorious things about the mother-goddess religions, where the world is the body of the Goddess, divine in itself, and divinity isn't something ruling over and above a fallen nature.... Our story of the fall in the Garden sees nature as corrupt; and that myth corrupts the whole world for us. Because nature is thought of as corrupt, every spontaneous act is sinful and must not be yielded to. You get a totally different civilization and a totally different way of living according to whether your myth presents nature as fallen or whether nature is in itself a manifestation of divinity, and the spirit is the revelation of the divinity that is inherent in nature.”

― Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

“And remember, you shall suffer all things and again suffer: until you have sufficient sufferance to accept all things.”

— Austin Osman Spare

“The more Chaotic I am, the more complete I am.”

— Austin Osman Spare

“That larger perspective, experiencing it, it pulls you loose from your trauma, it works it and reworks you, and how would you come out? How would I describe that? The wound may always be there, because serious things happen to us, and they’re dreadful, and you can’t fall back on ‘good comes out of evil.’ It’s not enough. So, the wound may always be there. The wound may always be bleedable. It’s not all healed up, scabbed over. It may be, and it may be healed, but it may not be. But we no longer live in the wound of trauma. The wound of trauma lives in us. That’s the difference. So that we’re not defined as a trauma. We can suffer it, we’ll go on suffering it, but it has its place. And its place is limited. It is in us, we are not engulfed in it."

— Ann Belford Ulanov 

"The Beast, the Dragon, the terrible monster, is the disguise of the beloved; the horror to be overcome itself is, or contains, the Reward’ Beauty and the Beast must be conjoined’ The old tag that a serpent becomes not a Dragon save by devouring another serpent, has an Alchemical sense: These are the two Dragons, male and female: they destroy one another, or one destroys the other and a new and mightier one is born, a fiery wonder: A Phoenix (traditionally depicted as having red and gold plumage*), a leaping glory, a STAR of dream ascending to the throne of the world. This was the Transmutation, the Great Work of the hidden glory of perfection".

— Arthur Machen, Fr.GD. (Frater of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn)

"Everything that was magic to the ears, and all that was fresh air to the subjugated, became denounced [by the Roman Church] as sinister and occult. The great enlightenment of the Grail Code of service was condemned in a series of brutal Inquisitions from 1203, and anything remotely connected with the female ethic was dubbed Witchcraft."

— Laurence Gardner

"The tenets of the Grail and Dragon traditions are implicit in defining that we should be at one with the earth, and cannot, therefore, presume dominion over it."

— Nicholas de Vere

"Kingship was founded upon the ideal that all people were adherents of the earth, and that the earth bestowed sovereignty upon its firstborn people, the Elven Tribes. They were represented by a Dragon Queen, and she empowered the Grail King, who could not be a king without her. In this environment, the right to kingship emanated from the female, since Mother Earth was herself deemed to be female. The overriding function of a king and queen was to maintain a spiritually transcendent intelligence within the realm, thereby enabling the organism (the kingdom) to function and develop in symbiosis with its surrounding environment."

— Nicholas de Vere

"The orthodox church likes to make an emphatic distinction between Jesus and the Christian God, the only true savior, and all other gods who either proceeded him or were contemporary to him, which they curse vehemently and label as "demonic," "pagan" and "heathen." The fact is that Jesus was part of that mystery tradition and identified himself closely with those so-called heathen gods and this is so evident in the canonical and apocryphal Gospels of his followers that in order to hide his true identity, the early Church would either have had to completely rewrite the scriptures, or throw them out all together and start again from scratch."

— Nicholas de Vere

"The search for reality is the most dangerous of all undertakings, for it destroys the world in which you live."

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

"In pagan thought, the earth and heavens were a reflection of the majesty of Nature, of which the people were themselves a part. But to the Jews and Christians, Nature as a whole (including the sun and the heavens) was seen to be a servant of God, who was said to have created everything: 'The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament sheweth his handiwork' (Psalm 19:1). Jehovah was said to transcend even Nature herself and, because of this, the true harmony between humankind and Nature was forfeit. In contrast, the pagan believers maintained that the inexplicable divine was manifest within Nature, which enveloped both the gods and society. The belief was shattered for all time by the orthodox establishment when natural harmony was discarded in favor of subservience."

— Laurence Gardner

"People enter relationships that serve their own interests or the interests of the "extended self." In the end, therefore, all human endeavor is self-centered, and all is "egotism." Beyond the facile exterior, there may be something of greater merit dwelling in the depths of silence, but it is often not evident."

― Nicholas De Vere

"Man aptly named himself: Homo = Mediocre + sapiens = cunning."

― Nicholas De Vere

In Jesus' case the Roman Church, as do all outsiders who know they are on to a good thing, sanitised his rituals and concealed his descent. All those who continued to follow Jesus' original teachings—like the Witches—they burned as “heretics”. This notwithstanding, the Wiccan apologists still try to tell us that Witchcraft has nothing to do with Christianity but is a preChristian fertility religion.

However, the word “heretic” was only used by the Inquisitors to specifically define those heterodox Christian beliefs which were at variance with the Roman Church's orthodox teachings. To call a Witch a heretic meant that the Witch was a heterodox Christian. The Inquisitors—whatever we may think of them—were nobody's fools.

They were aware of whom they were targeting. They also knew that Witches were “original Christians” whose knowledge of the true, Druidic nature of Jesus' liberating Christianity had to be quashed at any cost if the Church were to achieve the political and pecuniary supremacy they desired by replacing it with their own enslaving dogma.

All the time Witches existed, they were a testament to the fact that Roman Catholicism was nothing like Christianity, and was nothing more than a pack of usurping lies made fragrant with the incense of the suffering of the Dragons, whom the Roman Church had murdered in their pursuit of ultimate world power.

— Nicholas De Vere