Occult Magic Quotes & Sayings

You may think you're not blind, but can you see in the dark? — Luis Marques

...More to the point, do their representatives and senators in Washington deliberately prioritize the stated requirement of the Pentagon and CIA above the most basic need of their constituents? Yes, if those legislators have developed the unfortunate tendency to go into a trance every time someone utter the magic phrase "national security." In truth, it happen often enough, and many times of the course of my career I saw Congress respond to that occult incantation like iron filing drawn to a magnet. p 64 — Mike Lofgren

Maths is at only one remove from magic. — Neel Burton

You don't find Truth, but Truth finds you. — Luis Marques

At first Silas liked the subjects simply because of their strangeness, but slowly he began to believe in the possibilities of what he was reading, in a world filled with secrets and magic. When he was younger, he'd suspected his father believed in many of these things too, so that made it easy for them to talk. As he grew older, Silas began to see the glimmers of hieroglyphic logic behind the occult. There was a reason for these oddities to exist, perhaps as strange connections between the mind and the things people feared or desired. Magic was a conversation. Ghosts were real, and they were watching because something had happened that necessitated their presence. — Ari Berk

We live in Secret. We live in Silence. And we live Forever ... — Luis Marques

Do not judge others, without first judging yourself. There is no strength without knowing thyself. — 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

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

The night is Ours. Rejoicing in the ethereal realms where We are kings. Blessed souls of forgotten immortality. They fear Us in every grasp. — Luis Marques

The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters. — Shawn Ashmore

Did you ever face Death and let it stare back at you right in the Eyes? — Luis Marques

I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983. — Deborah Harkness

Light and Darkness. One cannot exist without the other. There is no true Master, without the power of balance. — Luis Marques

Words are more dangerous than swords and guns. They reach further and hurt deeper. — Luis Marques

The hidden mist of forgotten truth is not for the mundane eye to see ... — Luis Marques

When you stop chasing your dreams, your dreams start chasing you. — Dez Del Rio

Knowledge is a sacred gem that must be conquered,wielded and empowered. To access such gnosis is not a right,but a privilege of the evolved. — Luis Marques

Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic. — David Copperfield

To resist and subdue Nature is to make for one's self a personal and imperishable life: it is to break free from the vicissitudes of Life and Death. — Aleister Crowley

No matter how hard you try, after the Day there will always be a Night ... — Luis Marques

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

Trust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and absolute. This is the magic place, the mad place at the spark gap between word and world. — Alan Moore

Life is a chance at Evolution. Overcome yourself and Become. — Luis Marques

Peasants brought up on a tradition of superstitious magic could hardly be expected to distinguish between such ostensibly Christian rituals and the mumbled incantations of the local wizard. And so, to the discomfort of the priests, many came to regard elements of Christian devotion as simple magical spells. The Latin Mass was, after all, incomprehensible to the common people, so it already had the aspect of an occult formula. It came to be seen, like magic, as an essentially mechanical rite through which absolution was achieved by observing the correct procedures. In that case, there was no real need for faith. — Philip Ball

Beautiful sunrise in the far away mountains, painting the wide horizon with vibrant warm colors, among the chill from the morning breeze. — Luis Marques

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

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 The Brain") — Edward Bulwer-Lytton

These last few months Vida had started believing in all kinds of strange things she'd have laughed at when we lived back in Avalon. She'd tried every spell she could find in the dusty old books she brought home from thrift shops and garage sales; none of them ever worked, and it was awful watching her try. — Judith Clarke

Humans spend more time finding ways to fight and criticize who they consider a threat than actually learning how to overcome that threat. — Luis Marques

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. — Aleister Crowley

If you are drawn to the left hand path, it's usually because you've had some kind of life experience that has shocked you, awakened you. — Nikolas Schreck

He who does not cherish life, does not deserve to be among the living. — Luis Marques

Words are sigils that can hide the coded language of your Soul. — Luis Marques

The exercise of magical power is the exercise of natural powers, but superior to the ordinary functions of Nature. A miracle is not a violation of the laws of Nature, except for ignorant people. Magic is but a science, a profound knowledge of the Occult forces in Nature, and of the laws governing the visible or the invisible world. Spiritualism in the hands of an adept becomes Magic, for he is learned in the art of blending together the laws of the Universe, without breaking any of them and thereby violating Nature. — H. P. Blavatsky

Truth is not a right to be claimed, but a gift for those who are able to conquer it. — Luis Marques

There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult. — Paulo Coelho

Children and babies should be held in the most sacred regard. We feel that they're the most natural and true magicians. — Zeena Schreck

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

Left hand path magick is generally socially unacceptable. — Nikolas Schreck

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 tell you anything? Not a blessed thing. Once it comes to a showdown he hedges like the crook he was and tells you that such mysteries are far too terrible and dangerous to be entrusted to the profane. Mysterious balderdash my friend. I'm going to have a good strong nightcap and go to bed. — Dennis Wheatley

However, the real beauty is not in the words themselves, but in the listener that has the power to understand them. — Luis Marques

Poor are those who have eyes but cannot see ... — Luis Marques

Sometimes the dim veil between sanity and insanity is perception. — Luis Marques

If Heaven was a summer sky and a TV left on mute, then the Underworld was a starry night and an electric guitar with amps. — Charity Parkerson

The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell. — Aleister Crowley

The newly released movie 'Noah' features a retelling of the creation story that clearly depicts Darwinian evolution transforming a single-cell organism into a monkey. The movie also seems to show magic in scenes more reminiscent of the occult than of the Bible story. — Aaron Klein

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. — Michael W. Ford

A part of every life, even a life meriting very little regard, is spent in searching out the reasons for its existence, its starting point, and its source. My own failure to discover these things has sometimes inclined me toward magical explanations, and has led me to seek in the frenzies of the occult for what common sense has not taught me. — Marguerite Yourcenar

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. — Aleister Crowley

On the left hand path we take the direct route, which is much more strenuous, much more dangerous, and much more likely to cause you to fall. — Zeena Schreck

The deepest of powers are often the most subtle. Something that most fail to realize ... — Luis Marques

The power of faith can be a strong force, but the power of knowing is even stronger. — Luis Marques

Magic has big sharp teeth. When it bites, it doesn't nibble. It takes big, bloody chunks. So be very, very careful. — William Blystone

Predator and prey move in silent gestures, on the seductive dance of death, in the shadows cast by the vultures of the night. — Luis Marques

I hope you find your truth and when you do, you stand in the middle of it strong, beautiful and nimble like the World dancer. Because when the Fool followed her own path and trusted herself, she found herself in the World. And by the time she did, she was so high on the music-so enraptured by the dancing, so lost in the beauty, so in tune with herself, and so filled with magic-she didn't even realize she's arrived at her destination. — Sasha Graham

I'd better say at the start that I don't actually believe in magic any more than I believe in astrology, because I'm a Taurean and we don't go in for all that weirdo occult stuff. — Terry Pratchett

And sometimes I believe your relentless analysis of June leaves something out, which is your feeling for her beyond knowledge, or in spite of knowledge. I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.
What will you do after you have revealed all there is to know about June? Truth. What ferocity in your quest of it. You destroy and you suffer. In some strange way I am not with you, I am against you. We are destined to hold two truths. I love you and I fight you. And you, the same. We will be stronger for it, each of us, stronger with our love and our hate. When you caricature and nail down and tear apart, I hate you. I want to answer you, not with weak or stupid poetry but with a wonder as strong as your reality. I want to fight your surgical knife with all the occult and magical forces of the world. — Anais Nin

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

An evolved and balanced Ego can be a valuable tool for the Self. But a blinding one is always among the first footsteps into Oblivion. — Luis Marques

I while yet a youth wrote in a quite large volume three books of magical things, which I called De occulta philosophia, in which whatever was then erroneous because of my curious youth, now, more cautious, I wish to retract by this recantation, for formerly I spent much time and goods on these vanities. — Cornelius Agrippa

To face a real daemon, you must first look inwards and conquer your own darkness. — Luis Marques

Sex and magic are intertwined experiences - sex is one kind of magic (and can be made more magical without being concerned with sex-magic at any point), and magic can be, while erotic and arousing, not necessarily sexual in the way that is often understood. There is a commonly-held belief that those who practice sex-magic are indulging themselves in wild orgiastic rites at every opportunity. This is rarely the case. After all, if you need to go through lots of occult rigmarole just to get laid, then you're a bit sad, aren't you? Then again, the occult subculture is full of SAD people, desperate to finally get laid and attempting to turn to sex-magic as a last resort. — Phil Hine

No one will shake my conviction that those leaders of men, who are in the nature of carbuncles, of semi-conscious abscesses, who draw feverish crowds to them like noxious humours, have an innate knowledge of arrested time. They play with those vacant moments as though at a game of chequers. A fraction of suspended, frozen time, of inert time, jammed like a wedge into the most wonderfully oiled cogs of the most lucid of minds: and the whole mechanism is brought crashing to the ground, prepared to accept any authority, to endorse the most monstrous aberrations, especially collective ones. — Jacques Yonnet

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

Humans are naturally scared and confused beings. They not only fear the unknown, as they live fearing themselves ... — Luis Marques