Category: Quotes

Going Through Changes (August 2017)

 

“You have little time left, and none of it for crap. A fine state. I would say that the best of us always comes out when we are against the wall, when we feel the sword dangling overhead. Personally, I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
― Carlos Castaneda
 
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Dragon Wraith by GAR

 

Astral Palace (redux) by GAR

 

Transformational Ritual by GAR

 

Symbolic Systems (July 2017)

 

Food for Thought:
“Dangers lurk in all systems. Systems incorporate the unexamined beliefs of their creators. Adopt a system, accept its beliefs, and you help strengthen the resistance to change.”
— Frank Herber

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I was discussing with a friend lately how any system of belief has blinds built into it even when they are unintended. I believe it possible that the biggest blinds come from those unexamined by their own creators. If you adopt someone else’s pathworking or someone else’s systems of belief and you wish to see through the blinds, it means you have to examine both the system at least as much as its creator / founder did and yourself at an even deeper level.
 
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Night Hawk by GAR

 

Through the Nether Realms (redux) by GAR

 

Ritual Plane by GAR

 

Dreams and Waking Visions (July 2017)

 

“To see a World in a Grain of Sand

And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,

Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand

And Eternity in an hour.”

“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between, there are doors.”
— William Blake

 
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In the Ocean of Night He Waits by GAR

 

Vapula by GAR

 

Dream Vision by GAR

 

Discovering Power (May 2017)

 

The dark and transgressing principle in the occult philosophy is traditionally feminine by nature. The female is the “left” and the “sinister”. The world of qliphoth in the Qabalah, or the Sitra Ahra (the Left Side) is considered as feminine, and Lilith, the demon whore, is viewed as its personification. The left side of the Qabalistic Tree of Life is also feminine and is called “The Pillar of Severity”. It contains the sephira Geburah which, according to some Qabalistic theories, was the source of the qliphoth. The imbalance of the powers of Geburah/Din (judgement/punishment) poured out of the Tree and created the Sitra Ahra, the “other side”, or the “left side”, which is the kingdom of evil and darkness.
— Asenath Mason
 
 
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Lilith’s Night by GAR

 

The Hawk’s Last Breaths by GAR

 

Locating the Power in the Mind’s Cavern by GAR

 

Releasing Visions (May 2017)

 

“A mind conditioned by the experiences of so many yesterdays can only see the present through the cloudy lens of the past.”
— Samael Aun Weor

 

If you seek the truth using only your past experiences, then you will never find it. It is only by releasing what you think you know and being open to new experiences and more importantly new perceptions that you have the possibility of growth. To me, the only interesting people are those who are willing to give up who they are for who they may become. I seek to remain interesting in that way always.

 

 
 
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Ahriman (Redux) by GAR

 

Shadowed Vision by GAR

 

Release (Redux) by GAR

 

Storm Warnings (May 2017)

 

“Magick is not created by man, it is a part of man, having its basis in the structure of his brain, his body and his nervous system in their relations to his conceptual universe, the matrix of thought, and of speech, the mother of thought.”
— Jack Parsons
 
 
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Storm Call (Redux) by GAR

 

Solace (Redux) by GAR

 

Die Strum by GAR