Gains Quote by Dion Fortune

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

— Umberto Eco

Now, occultism is not like mystic faculty, and it very seldom works in harmony either with business aptitude in the things of ordinary life…

— A. E. Waite

Knowledge does away with darkness, [anxiety], and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Those without the gate frequently question the wisdom and right of the occultist to guard his knowledge by the imposition of oaths of secrecy.…

— Dion Fortune

Knowledge is power-and power of one sort or another is the secret lust of human souls; and here is, beside the sense of exploration,…

— Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

doubt seems the only purity for those who are too fervent to deny, and too lucid to affirm.

— Natalie Clifford Barney

All of the exoteric teachings are only designed to give you the type of life that will allow you to practice the esoteric teachings.

— Frederick Lenz

In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be.

— Frank Herbert

The occultist is brought into intelligent communication with the spirits of the air, and can receive any knowledge which they possess, or any false…

— Anonymous

Fraud includes the pretense of knowledge when knowledge there is none.

— Benjamin Cardozo

. . . is to attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing Darkness. It cannot be.

— Frank Herbert