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> [“The very best magicians are scavengers of the useful and banishers of the useless.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/the-very-best-magicians-are-scavengers-of-the-useful-and-banishers-of/)

[Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/)

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## More by Gordon White

> [“Particularly when it comes to chaos magic, building your own optimal metaphysics becomes more challenging when you have to shoehorn it into whatever preferred…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/particularly-when-it-comes-to-chaos-magic-building-your-own-optimal/)

[Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/)

> [“At the paranormalist end, Jacques Vallée once famously remarked “just because a message comes from Heaven doesn’t mean it’s not stupid.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/at-the-paranormalist-end-jacques-vall-e-once-famously-remarked-just/)

[Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/)

> [“You are certainly free to join whatever nineteenth-century swingers club masquerading as a magical order you like, but do it on your own time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/you-are-certainly-free-to-join-whatever-nineteenth-century-swingers/)

[Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/)

> [“Anyone else who misspent their largely-sexless adolescence playing role playing games would be aware that games nights are often accompanied by peculiar states of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/anyone-else-who-misspent-their-largely-sexless-adolescence-playing/)

[Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/)

> [“The very best magicians are scavengers of the useful and banishers of the useless.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/the-very-best-magicians-are-scavengers-of-the-useful-and-banishers-of/)

[Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/)

> [“Terence McKenna once famously said that science asks “Give us one free miracle and we’ll explain the rest.” That miracle is the instantaneous arrival…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/terence-mckenna-once-famously-said-that-science-asks-give-us-one-free/)

[Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/)

> [“The magicians of the Golden Dawn built a history that now appears inaccurate but was cutting edge for its time. They haunted the British…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/the-magicians-of-the-golden-dawn-built-a-history-that-now-appears/)

[Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/)

> [“Live an active life closer to nature and you will be physically and psychologically healthy. Team Animism wins again.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/live-an-active-life-closer-to-nature-and-you-will-be-physically-and/)

[Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/)

> [“Anyone with even trifling experience with spirit work will have seen how they often make their presence, wishes or intentions known via a string…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/anyone-with-even-trifling-experience-with-spirit-work-will-have-seen/)

[Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/)

> [“Materialism, it must be understood, is a premise of science, not a finding.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/materialism-it-must-be-understood-is-a-premise-of-science-not-a/)

[Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/)

> [“As it got away from its founders, chaos magic came to mean ‘doing whatever you want’ in popular parlance, which is probably close to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/as-it-got-away-from-its-founders-chaos-magic-came-to-mean-doing/)

[Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/)

> [“One end accepts too much, the other end accepts too little, and there in the middle is the western magical tradition exemplified by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/one-end-accepts-too-much-the-other-end-accepts-too-little-and-there/)

[Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/)

> [“History may well be written by the victors, but victors change and if we do not unwrite history then the propaganda from the previous…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/history-may-well-be-written-by-the-victors-but-victors-change-and-if/)

[Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/)

> [“I am the Headless Daimon with sight in my feet; I am the mighty one who possesses the immortal fire; I am the truth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/i-am-the-headless-daimon-with-sight-in-my-feet-i-am-the-mighty-one/)

[Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/)

> [“It is more useful for the magician to consider living systems not as some unaware little eddies in a universal consciousness field, but as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gordon-white/it-is-more-useful-for-the-magician-to-consider-living-systems-not-as/)

[Gordon White](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gordon-white/)

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