occult wisdom Quotes

I have often admired the mystical way of Pythagoras, and the secret magick of numbers.

The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

The real name for 'science' is magic.

Ninety percent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact.

The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute.

The alchemists spent years in their laboratories, observing the fire that purified the metals. They spent so much time close to the fire that gradually they gave up the vanities of the world. They discovered that the purification of the metals had led to a purification of themselves.

Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics.

The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain.

They were strange books. They spoke about mercury, salt, dragons, and kings, and he didn't understand any of it.

That's one form of magic, of course." "What, just knowing things?" "Knowing things that other people don't know.

That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you.

Masonry is a search after Light. That search leads us directly back, as you see, to the Kabalah.