Quotes from Lon Milo DuQuette

Do I think I'm a holy man? Sometimes.

God and I will achieve Supreme Enlightenment at the same moment.

Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist.

The real you doesn't eat, or drink, or think, or sleep, or die.

Cards that have, in the past, borne the titles Justice, Strength, Temperance, and Judgment (or Last Judgment) are, in the Thoth Tarot, respectively named Adjustment, Lust, Art, and The Aeon. Crowley

We hold a universe in our hands when we pick up a deck of tarot cards.

We may never know the true story behind the book, but the book has become a myth, and myth is truer than history.

You connect everything you can think of with everything else you can think of until there is no "anything" left.

Everything in Heaven and Earth is connected to everything in Heaven and Earth.

Everything in Heaven and Earth is the reflection of everything in Heaven and Earth. ? Everything in Heaven and Earth contains the pattern of everything in Heaven and Earth.

The suits are usually ordered Wands, Cups, Swords, and Disks.

Once we remove the cultural framework around the words religion and magic, no objective differences remain.

new "fact of life" (one that conformed to the secret nature of the sun) became the magical formula of the aeon; life comes from death.

the Aeon of Isis we identified with the earth. Life came miraculously from earth and woman. All magical pantheons were aspects of the Goddess. Death was a mystery whose depths were impossible to plumb. In the Aeon of Osiris we identified with the dying/resurrected sun. All magical pantheons were aspects of God the Father. Death could be magically overcome by obedience to formulae, rites and doctrine.

El ()4 is the root word for Deity. Eloh () is a feminine singular, in other words, a female Deity (a Goddess); im () is the plural ending for things that are masculine. Elohim (), then, should be translated either "Gods and Goddesses" or "Dual-Gendered Deity.

the Aeon of Horus we identify with the self-radiant, ever-living sun. All magical pantheons have become aspects of ourselves. We, like the sun, do not die. Death, like night, is an illusion. Life is now seen as a process of continual growth and humanity is developing a consciousness of the continuity of existence that will eventually dissolve the sting of death.53

With the opposable thumb our ancestors made weapons, harnessed fire, fashioned tools and implements, created works of art, and hitch-hiked.

These ten paths are called Sephiroth or emanations.

For a magician, it is better to be possessed by the demon than ignored by him. Rabbi Lamed Ben Clifford

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. ~Galileo Galilei

wish space allowed me to discuss The Vision and The Voice in detail, but that has been done admirably in The Vision and The Voice with Commentary and Other Papers61 It provides an in-depth study of these wondrous visions and brings the spiritual reality of many tarot images to life.

First to bloom in the primary colors of yellow, blue, and red are the Fool, the Hanged Man, and the Aeon. These three personify the powers and qualities of the three mother letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the primitive elements of air, water, and fire.69

I've read The Book of the Law. I must be slow. I cannot make heads nor tails of it. Every time I read it, I glean one insight, yet still end up confused. Thanks, Name withheld ………………………… Dear Name withheld, Good! I'd be really worried if you said you understood The Book of the Law. One insight per reading is really a good track record.

Table 2. The Four Tarot Suits Ultimately Represent the Divine Name, Yod Hé Vau Hé, and Its Fourfold Division of Creation SPIRIT Figure 14.