Fat little cherubim [sic] and nonsensical names with -el appended to them have always made me suspicious of angelology.

For some forgotten reason, I decided to learn about the Jewish understanding of angels and so, early this year, I read David Cooper's Invoking AngelsSince I occasionally come across angel names that are obviously invented, and ( Read more... )

First of all, you may not find [your Inner Temple] in your "holiest places," the areas of your life, which you feel are "all right." These may be nothing more than mirages which to lead you into feeling "all right." They are not the best sites on which to build your Temple, because they may not be grounded in reality. Better to look for your ( Read more... )

( Woody Hochswender )

from The Goat Foot God, 1936

It is a curious, and melancholy, fact that uninteresting people have the same capacity for suffering as attractive ones.

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The thing in which he was really interested, the thing for which he had bought the book-- was its title, The Prisoner in the Opal; the hint of escape-- a glimpse of fire from the heart of ( Read more... )

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Part I of "Blood-Lust" in The Secrets of Dr. TavernerI have never been able to make up my mind whether Dr. Taverner should be the hero or the villain of these histories. That he was a man of the most selfless ideals could not be questioned, but in his methods of putting these ideals into practice he was absolutely unscrupulous. He did not evade the ( Read more... )

Part II, Chapter VI of Moon Magic, 1956 (completed & published posthumously)I am not absolutely sure how old I am, but I think I am about a hundred and twenty. At any rate, I have lived long enough to see the things for which I worked come about. It is for this reason I think I shall go soon ( Read more... )

from Practical Occultism in Daily LifeTo use the Tarot properly... requires a very great deal of preparation, and the preparation does not consist merely in a knowledge of the significance of the cards, but in getting in touch with the forces behind the cards. An adequate rule-of-thumb use of it, however, can be made by any sincere person for ( Read more... )

( Fictional Works )

from Chapter 16 of The Sea Priestess, 1938Then there awoke for me the ancient civilisation in all its glory, and I saw first the mountain like a truncated cone on which was built the City of the Golden Gates of the island of Ruta in the lost land of Atlantis, and it put me in mind of Bell Knowle ( Read more... )