Quotes About Magick

In general, most witches seek to improve themselves and humankind as a whole, and to live in harmony with the universe. This means working for the greater good---often through the use of magick---and harming none. It also means taking responsibility for your thoughts, words, and deeds because everything you do affects everything else.

Magick has been famously described, as "the art and science of causing change to occur in conformity with will

We are, in many ways, the bastard children of Reason and Mysticism. Both have been banging away like libertines during the last 200 years, and we are, in many ways, their offspring. Without Reason, we would simply be mad savants, dancing to an aimless tune. Without Mysticism, we would be poseurs, desperately trying to be rebellious without the wisdom to pull it off. Magick, you see, is the ultimate rebellion, and we are its best chance for the future.

The living miracle lying across the room on a rug of black hair, this pale, porcelain miracle, as delicate as spun glass, as tough as steel, was a potential Goddess. And to be used for what? To partake in coldblooded, passionless experiences, without magick or reverence or love. It sickened him.

Anytime you feel love for anything, be it stone, tree, lover, or child, you are touched by the Goddess's magick...

Jacki Smith is a masterful artist of magickal candles. I've enjoyed her blend of strong magickal intentions and great smelling scents in her products. To have her wisdom in a book is a treasure!

Was it genes or magick? she wondered. But then, for some, one was the same as the other

He smelled of rain and leather, of green grass and rich earth. Of Talamh, she realized. He smelled of magick.

He grabbed her hands, yanked them to his lips, then laughed down at her. "You'll be mine, and I'll be yours. That's what I want." She laid her cheek on his heart. Love, she thought, given freely, taken willingly. There was no stronger magick. "It's what I want," she murmured, then smiled when she heard Alastar

Sex magick existed before Crowley. It is quite ancient, having been observed by Gnostic and Tantric practitioners, and later by the pagan (indigenous) pre-Christian peoples of Europe.

The magickian learns that his or her life is nothing more than a story, usually written by authority figures in his or her life. The magickian's task then becomes to take up the magickal tools of pen and paper and to take the job of 'author' away from 'authority' and to re-write his or her life.

Consider an ordinary flashlight battery. Look at or visualize one. Can you imagine if the battery only had a positive end, but not a negative end? What good would it be if it had only a positive pole, but not a negative pole? It wouldn't be functional. It wouldn't work. It wouldn't even be a battery. Most importantly of all, from a magickal point of view, it wouldn't be charged!

The magickian lets go of his or her anticipation of the realization of his or her intention, so that he or she can get out of magick's way, and let his or her Future Reality do the Work.

Does our definition of successful magickal workings only go as far as getting a new job, or being financially secure? On the other hand, do we dare to dream big dreams, to construct magickal operations that change the very destiny or our nation, or to leave something that will stand for 10,000 years?

Crowley did not sacrifice children. Crowley always used analogies for things, so he called masturbation 'child sacrifice.' In his book, Magick, Aleister Crowley referred to masturbation jokingly and dysphemistically as child sacrifice.

A window within the soul to see Light and Magick I send with thee Be strong, be brave, make the right choice Though Darkness shouts with a terrible voice Know that I am watching from above And that always, always, the answer is love!

It is requisite that we should here say something of Magick, which is so linked to Astrology, as being her near Kinswoman, that whoever professes Magick without Astrology, does nothing, but is altogether out of the way.

Natural Magick therefore is that, which considering well the strength and force of Natural and Celestial beings, and with great curiosity labouring to discover their affections, produces into open Act the hidden and concealed powers of Nature.

Natural Magick is taken to be nothing else, but the chief power of all the natural Sciences; which therefore they call the top and perfection of Natural Philosophy, and which is indeed the active part of the same; which by the assistance of natural forces and faculties, through their mutual & opportune application, performs those things that are above Human Reason.

Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

Because of monster movies and stereotypical witch stories, many people who do not condemn witchcraft to the realm of nonsense think that there is a monster or demon hiding behind every corner waiting to get them. Magick tends to amplify the intentions given to it. If you learn centeredness, confidence, and compassion, magick will amplify those qualities, rather than your fears. Protection magick and psychic self-defense skills alleviate your fears and bring balance.

What do all men seek? I want to be happy. I would like a wife and sons one day. But I want them to grow in a land where there is hope for the future, where men do not take to the road. If that is a hopeless dream - and maybe it is - then I will sire no sons. I will wander, and play my harp, and weave my magick until the end.

Summer makes me suicidal. It sucks all the magick out of life, and even sleeping becomes an exercise in fruitless brutality. I cannot comprehend what it is in the souls who await this misery. Nothing worthwhile can survive the heat. The birds and the bees are harbingers of hell, ushering in a season of disease. There is nothing in these months that speaks to me. It conspires to keep me from ever reaching home.

Christmas Day itself is always bittersweet, because it's the last day of that beautiful magick that's been building up like a tidal wave for the past month. In just a week it will be hard to even remember what it's like. I'll be brokenhearted at the thought of it being gone again for an entire year.