Quotes from Lon Milo DuQuette

The lowest part of the soul, which corresponds to Assiah, the Material World, is called the Nephesh—animal vitality or the animal soul.

The part of the soul that corresponds to Yetzirah, the Formative World, is called the Ruach—the intellect

Cogito ergo sum—I think, therefore I am.

The part of the soul that corresponds to Briah, the Creative World and the Heh of the Tetragrammaton, is called the Neshamah—the seat of our Transcendent Awareness

The highest part of the soul that corresponds to Atziluth, the Archetypal World, and the Yod of the Tetragrammaton, is called the Chiah.

Crowley recognized in the images, symbols, and structure of tarot a unified field theory of Qabalah and Hermeticism—an illustrated guidebook of the soul that neatly synthesizes the essence of the Western Mysteries.

The gods of one age become the devils of the age to follow. The priests look forward to the age to come and see only the end of the world.

You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true!

It's all in your head -- you just have no idea how big your head is.

If we can't wake up to the fact that deep down inside we are good, then we deserve to remain asleep dreaming we are evil.

It is only by working the rituals, that any significant degree of understanding can develop. If you wait until you are positive you understand all aspects of the ceremony before beginning to work, you will never begin to work.

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

I eat too much. I drink to much. A greedy selfish such-n-such. But when I wrap my turban on my mind is clear, I'm 'Baba Lon'.

In essence, there are not really twenty-two trumps, there is only one—the Fool. Al the other trumps live inside (and issue from) the Fool.

The whole secret may be summarized in these four words: "Inflame thyself in praying." —ALEISTER CROWLEY38

Aeons change, not as the result of some war in heaven or astrological event. Rather they are simply the consequence of some improved modification in human consciousness. Obviously, such a mutation needs to be universal and fundamental: something most of us share with our fellows, something as simple as how we perceive our relationship with the Sun.

I don't fear Satan half as much as I fear those who fear him.

When you actually know the question, the answer is every­where, and you can see it in anything you observe.

Teach me (O creator of all things) to have correct knowledge and understanding, for your wisdom is all that I desire. Speak your word in my ear (O creator of all things) and set your wisdom in my heart.

Then there are the tables in Liber Loagaeth, at the end of which (Sloane MS. 3189) Dee has appended eight tables from "Aldaraia Sive Soyga," the mathematical methods of which have been demonstrated by Jim Reeds. They appear even on the surface to be cryptographic tables, though no one to date has made a systematic study of their content, nor provided any translation or decryption or methodology. They remain the most hermetically sealed of all Dee and Kelley's documents.

Today's quote of the day from B, "I haven't got time for Demonic Presences; we've got packing to do".

The phrases, "on the level" and, "third degree" are familiar to us all, but few of us have stopped to think of their origins. They are, in fact, overt references to the Craft of Freemasonry. In fact, every time a judge or chairperson pounds his or her gavel; every time an unworthy job applicant is blackballed; every time we refer to a faithful friend as being true blue—even when we shake hands to seal a deal—we are echoing Masonic traditions. The

Speaking through one of his characters in the novel Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco makes the following alltoo-true observation: "For him, everything proves everything else. The Lunatic is all idée fixé, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.

To think, one is addressing a presence so bright that the whole world one knows – including all that inner world of apparent self , beliefs and values – is cast forever into shadow revealed as a poor imitation of the everlasting day. To think, one is inviting into one's very life a guide which will faultlessly regard every action and measure it against a divine and holy agency.  To think this, and more, and then to go ahead and actually do it.