Late Nights

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“You can study and practice magick for the rest of your life and you will still never learn everything that it has to teach you.”

- Damien Echols

High Magick: A Guide to the Spiritual Practices that Saved My Life on Death Row

“Who may know their complete likeness, when so much is being hidden. The Astrals, Elementals, Mind, and Soul. We realise something of the body’s mechanism and of the affectiveness of the whole; at its interrelations we may only guess. Every fact gleaned shows us merely greater ignorance of ourselves. Therefore, speak not of God, speak for yourself alone, for when you know yourself you will know your Gods.”

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Austin Osman Spare 1886-1956

“A witch is, actually, a successful (in the sense of surviving) deviant. You have a cultural, ideological, social, what-not pattern which is, for that society in question, normal (and, importantly, this is understood as a synonym for natural). Most people survive because they conform to these patterns, because they behave normally. […] But then suddenly you get a deviant which survives, and since it does not draw its support from the normal pattern, […] that deviant is understood as drawing its support from “unknown,” “supernatural” sources. […] If we cannot survive without our order, how can she [the witch] survive in solitude? Hers must be indeed a very powerful order to exist so independently, without all the inter cooperation and individual compromise which we have to go through to survive. And if it is so powerful, then it could destroy us. We must try to destroy it first.”

— Maya Deren, “From the Notebook of Maya Deren”, c.October 1947, vol. 14: pages 21–45. (via maddiviner)