Ascent Quote by Dion Fortune Download Open image “The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence.” — Dion Fortune ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ascent Descent Matter Religion Spirit
Matter is spirit at its lowest level. Spirit is matter at its highest level. — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The reality of spirit-matter is inevitably translated into and confirmed by a structure of the spirit. — Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Copy Share Image
“We stand at the gates of an important epoch, a time of ferment, when spirit moves forward in a leap, transcends its previous shape… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
“Matter would have the universe a uniform dispersion, motionless, complete. Spirit would have an earth, a heaven and a hell, whirl and conflict, an… — Allen Wheelis Copy Share Image
How body from spirit slowly does unwind, until we are pure spirit at the end. — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
In the life of the spirit there is no ending that is not a beginning. — Henrietta Szold Copy Share Image
The Spirit must therefore first take hold of us before we can live in Christ, and when he doth so, then we are enabled… — John Flavel Copy Share Image
The body of man is a limitation. Only the spirit opens onto the infinite. — Michel Quoist Copy Share Image
I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
“...spirituality alone will not take a man far in the Mysteries; he must have intellectual powers as well.” — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness, — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast. — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer.… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
“The average man may be capable of benefiting by initiation, or he may not; it also depends upon his capacity; but each individual should… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
“...a trained occultist, especially if of high grade, has an exceedingly magnetic personality, and this is apt to prove disturbing to those who are… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
All gods are one God, and all goddesses are one Goddess, and there is one Initiator. — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will. — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one can do… — Dion Fortune Copy Share Image
The ascent of any route begins, in dreams at least, the autumn before. Our minds ring, involuntarily, with the alluring names of mountains, aiguilles,… — Gaston Rebuffat Copy Share Image
Without shedding of blood there is no anything. Everything, it seems to me, has to be purchased by selfsacrifice. Our race has marked every… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
No one should deny the danger of the descent, but it can be risked. No one need risk it, but it is certain that… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The member of a culture ... purposely avoids the relationship of intimacy; he wants the object somehow depicted and fictionalized. ... He is embarrassed… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
The real goal of a spiritual tradition should not be ascent, but openness, vulnerability, and this does not require great experiences but, on the… — Morris Berman Copy Share Image
As I express my gratitude, I become more deeply aware of it. And the greater my awareness, the greater my need to express it.… — David Steindl-Rast Copy Share Image
The growth of all the plants of the garden from seeds and roots keep us mindful, in accordance with of the Parable of the… — John Stokes Copy Share Image
There is wonder and a certain wicked pleasure in these giddy ascents and terrible falls, especially as they happen to other people. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
Sometimes, when I get a good picture, it feels like I have taken another nervous step into increasingly rarified air. Each good-news picture, no… — Sally Mann Copy Share Image
The ascent to greatness, however steep and dangerous, may entertain an active spirit with the consciousness and exercise of its own power: but the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
How much time, creative energy, and emotion do we expend resisting change because we assume growth must always be painful? Much personal growth is… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
