Occultism Quotes

“When you start to notice the mystical, the mystical will start to notice you.”
― Dacha Avelin

“Fear is dangerous, not the tarot. The tarot represents the spectrum of the human condition, the good, the evil, the light, and the dark. Do not fear the darker aspects of the human condition. Understand them. The tarot is a storybook about life, about the greatness of human accomplishment, and also the ugliness we are each capable of.”
― Benebell Wen, Holistic Tarot: An Integrative Approach to Using Tarot for Personal Growth

“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.”
― Dacha Avelin

“There is nothing more powerful than a witch who knows how to contain her power.
Standing comfortably within its mystery
and allure.”
― Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

“Mysticism is like pure science; it has no use. Mysticism is just the human longing to know… Occult is not science. Occult is just technology.”
― Jaggi Vasudev, Of Mystics & Mistakes

“Remember that unbalanced force is evil; that unbalanced severity is but cruelty and oppression; but that also unbalanced mercy is but weakness which would allow and abet Evil. Act passionately; think rationally; be Thyself.”
― Aleister Crowley, Magick: Liber ABA: Book 4

“An experienced witch does not rely on karma. She relies on magickal justice.”
― Dacha Avelin

“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

“I devotedly believe that the essence of my being - my spirit - is not truly a part of the universe, it is a part of Chaos. My spirit is a fragment of the Hidden God beyond the nutshell we call the cosmos; thus being trapped in a human body is only a prison in my eyes.”
― Vexior 218

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

“Witchcraft is the magick of the Earth itself. It is the essence that can bind life together.”
― Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

“You alone are Earth, Air, Fire, Water, and Spirit.”
― Dacha Avelin, Old World Witchcraft: Pathway To Effective Magick

“Witchcraft is more than just a practice, it is a way of life. A way of looking at the physical and spiritual as a collaborative source of manifestation.
We are in tune with nature, in tune with ourselves and in alignment with our all-knowing inner witch.”
― Dacha Avelin, Embracing Your Inner Witch: The Maidens Guide to Old World Witchcraft

“Our deepest fear is NOT that we are incompetent women. Our deepest fear
is that we are powerful beyond physical measure.
It is our radiated spiritual strength
that most frightens us…
And empowers us!”
― Dacha Avelin

“I must learn to let go, let it all go, center myself and open my mind. The ideals, concepts and ideas of the self being separate from the whole of all consciousness must change. We are one large family, you are I, and I am you.”
― Brandon Garic Notch

“Lucifer is the hero of the Bible, and the most misunderstood being in its narrative. He is not Satan, but the Light Bearer!”
― J.Adam Snyder

“Petty fortune telling was the field of the wishful. Witches dealt in blood and bones.”
― Ginn Hale, The Rifter Book One: The Shattered Gates

“Everything changes in the fall- the light, the air, the colors...even the tick of the clock. Grant yourself a moment to discover the glory of autumn and listen to the Earth. Heal your soul by letting things go and fill your heart with joy and happiness by dancing with the leaves in the crisp air. Radiate your magnificence and celebrate your inner witch".”
― Natasha Helvin

“Behind the veil of all the hieratic and mystical
allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the darkness and strange ordeals of all initiations, under the seal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of Nineveh or Thebes, on the crumbling stones of old temples and on the blackened visage of the Assyrian or Egyptian sphinx, in the monstrous or marvelous paintings which interpret to the faithful of India the inspired pages of the Vedas, in the cryptic emblems of our old books on alchemy, in the ceremonies practiced at reception by all secret societies, there are found indications of a doctrine which is everywhere the same and everywhere carefully concealed.”
― Eliphas Lévi

“Those who wander are always objects of suspicion and sometimes even of fear.”
― Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor

“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 rising waters from invading the upper floors when flooding occurs. In the event of storms or blocked drains, the cellar acts as a regulatory overflow.

The weather was fine: no risk of drowning or any sudden emergency. There were five of us: Hubert, Gerard the painter, two regulars and myself. Old Marteau, the local builder, was upstairs with his gear, ready to repair the damage. We made a hole.

Our exploration took us sixty metres down a laboriously-faced vaulted corridor (it must have been an old thoroughfare). We were wading through a disgusting sludge. At the far
end, an impassable barrier of iron bars. The corridor continued beyond it, plunging downwards. In short, it was a kind of drain-trap.

That’s all. Nothing else. Disappointed, we retraced our steps. Old Hubert scanned the walls with his electric torch. Look! An opening. No, an alcove, with some wooden object that looks like a black statuette. I pick the thing up: it’s easily removable. I stick it under my arm. I told Hubert, ‘It’s of no interest...’ and kept this treasure for myself.

I gazed at it for hours on end, in private. So my deductions, my hunches were not mistaken: the Bièvre-Seine confluence was once the site where sorcerers and satanists must surely have gathered. And this kind of primitive magic, which the blacks of Central Africa practise today, was known here several centuries ago. The statuette had miraculously survived the onslaught of time: the well-known virtues of the waters of the Bièvre, so rich in tannin, had protected the wood from rotting, actually hardened, almost fossilized it. The object answered a purpose that was anything but aesthetic. Crudely carved, probably from heart of oak. The legs were slightly set apart, the arms detached from the body. No indication of gender. Four nails set in a triangle were planted in its chest. Two of them, corroded with rust, broke off at the wood’s surface all on their own. There was a spike sunk in each eye. The skull, like a salt cellar, had twenty-four holes in which little tufts of brown hair had been planted, fixed in place with wax, of which there were still some vestiges. I’ve kept quiet about my find. I’m biding my time.”
― Jacques Yonnet, Paris Noir: The Secret History of a City

“The process of dying is falling asleep. The process of death is waking up.”
― J.Adam Snyder

“Conventional, organized religion, in its most decadent form, is an inert parody of the genuine religious experience as much as modern occult organizations are degenerate parodies of forgotten religions.”
― Zeena Schreck, The Zaum of Zeena: A Collection of Interviews, Essays, Quotes and Images by Zeena Schreck

“I became aware that there is no accessible high quality training that is freely available, free of dogmatic styles, agendas or commercial interest.
Magical training that is heavily tied to profits, fashions, and group politics cannot flourish properly, nor can an individual fully grow in such an environment.
True magical development is dying under the weight of heavy commercialization and group factions: it is time to look at a different way of ensuring that the integrity of magic continues for future generations.”
― Josephine McCarthy, Magic of the Northgate

“تُستغَلُّ غرابةُ وقوعِ الأحداثِ الاستثنائية من قِبَل المنجّمين و قارئي الطالع. إنهم بمضاعفة توقعاتهم ينجحون في معاينة تحقق بعضها ، و يعتمدون على ذاكرتنا الانتقائية للاحتفاظ بهذه الأخيرة فقط”
― Elise Janvresse, قانون تسلسل الأحداث.. هل هو صدفة أم حتمية؟

“The other New Age bullshit bullet to dodge is the constant
aggressive sale of ‘wonder nature cures.’
Some are no better than snake oil, but others are true healing substances taken out of context, refined, and made into a supplement that you are told you must take every day (at great expense).
Don’t get sucked into the bullshit.
Learn about your own body, learn about substances and how they work, and do not get trapped in the endless New Age loop of pseudoscience.”
― Josephine McCarthy, Magical Healing: A Health Survival Guide for Magicians and Healers

“It is a well-worn saying but one nonetheless true and nonetheless worthy of repetition, inasmuch as it expresses peculiarly the situation now widely prevalent, that" where there is no vision the people perish. "Mankind as a whole, or more particularly the Western element, has lost in some incomprehensible way its spiritual vision. An heretical barrier has been erected separating itself from that current of life and vitality which even now, despite willful impediment and obstacle, pulses and vibrates passionately in the blood, pervading the whole of universal form and structure. The anomalies presented today are due to this rank absurdity. Mankind is slowly accomplishing its own suicide. A self-strangulation is being effected through a suppression of all individuality, in the spiritual sense, and all that made it human. It continues to withhold the spiritual atmosphere from its lungs, so to speak. And having severed itself from the eternal and never-ceasing sources of light and life and inspiration, it has deliberately blinded itself to the fact— than which no other could compare in importance—that there is a dynamic principle both within and without from which it has accomplished a divorce. The result is inner lethargy, chaos, and the disintegration of all that formerly was held to be ideal and sacred.”
― Israel Regardie, The Tree of Life: An Illustrated Study in Magic

“If you cannot do great things, do small things consistently in a great way.”
― Krishna Mohan Avancha

“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.”
― William G. Gray, Letters of Light: The Magical Letters of William G. Gray to Alan Richardson

“The use of visionary methods to aid the body in the healing
and cleansing process is an important skill for the magician
to learn.
Any human can use the mind in order to trigger
a healing or cleansing response, and this action engages the
consciousness in an active conversation with the body.
However,when such work is done by a magician who is trained or skilled in visionary magic, something very special happens: the consciousness becomes an active participant in an action that goes beyond the individual—it initiates a conversation not only with the body, but with the spiritual beings that flow all around us in the constant universal dance of creation and destruction.”
― Josephine McCarthy, Magical Healing: A Health Survival Guide for Magicians and Healers