Quotes from Peter J. Carroll

Self-Professed Black Magicians seem universally unable to fight, fuck, or even buy their way out of wet paper bags, despite phantasizing constantly about becoming powerful psychopaths.

Never discard the negative roots of any equation; always look at the dark side of any enlightenment.

Scheme against your most sacred principles in thought, word and deed…. The only clear view is from atop a mountain of your dead selves.

We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method; should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?

Pagan philosophers saw human qualities mirrored in nature and cast these giant reflections of themselves as gods. It is therefore unsurprising that most pagan cosmologies contain a complete spectrum of our psychology in god form.

There is no formal hierarchy in the chaos tradition of magic. There is a division of activity depending on ability as it develops.

Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing? Have you declared yourself enlightened? Damn your weak philosophies; a pox and a pestilence your despicable sloth and arrogance.

In the transmissible mental disease of god ownership, the victim acquires the megalomaniacal delusion that a being supposedly representing all of his most desirable characteristics actually rules

Even a slight ability to change oneself is more valuable than any power over the external universe. Metamorphosis is an exercise in willed restructuring of the mind.