Dion Fortune Quotes

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• Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.
• The man who is an initiate of one of the great Mystery Schools never fears to let his pupils outdistance him, because he knows that…
• The body is the vehicle of the mind.
• Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.
• What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.
• What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness,
• It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.
• A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A…
• One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.
• I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives…
• All gods are one God, and all goddesses are one Goddess, and there is one Initiator.
• The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.
• Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.
• 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.
• Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers.
• 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…
• To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making…
• We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do not…
• The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence.
• Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

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