Make no mistake about it, magick is an art form, and every true magician is an artist. Lon Milo DuQuette More Quotes by Lon Milo DuQuette More Quotes From Lon Milo DuQuette No matter what system the magician chooses, in order to make it work most effectively he or she must first become attuned to that system's particular way of viewing of the universe. Lon Milo DuQuette matter order way Religion exalts mystery as an unknowable secret that must be sealed in glass like the corpse of an enchanted princess and fearfully worshipped from afar. Initiation, on the other hand, requires direct participation and demands each of us to smash the casket and press mad lips to mystery, wooing her as a lover who will offer up her treasurers in a succession of sweet surrenders. This she will do, but only in exact ratio to our evolving ability and worthiness to receive them. Lon Milo DuQuette princess glasses sweet It's all in your head -- you just have no idea how big your head is. Lon Milo DuQuette no-idea bigs ideas Spirits are as real as the powers they personify. Lon Milo DuQuette real spirit 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. Lon Milo DuQuette devil age looks It is one thing to be well-read on a subject; it is quite another to be part of the subject itself. It is an unfortunate fact that there are many individuals who make magick there life without making their life magick. Lon Milo DuQuette individual wells facts I've often said that the only thing I can change with magick is myself. I believe that. Whatever changes I wish to effect with magick, the first and only thing that will be directly changed by my magical operation will be me. Once I am changed, then the new changed me will then somehow affect or attract the desired object of my operation. Lon Milo DuQuette self wish believe 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. Lon Milo DuQuette wake-up evil dream You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true! Lon Milo DuQuette paganism reason way In a world that’s gone hellishly mad we’ve always taken comfort in the fact that the faith of our fathers is the one thing that remains solid and unchanging. It occurs to very few of us that perhaps for the last 2,500 years the faith of our fathers has been one of the main reasons why our world has gone hellishly mad. Lon Milo DuQuette our-world taken father It is the profoundest of cosmic ironies. The divine power, our true spiritual essence, does not achieve perfection until it hits the 'rock' bottom of the cosmos - the dense and crude earth. It remains imperfect until the moment of entombment for the simple reason that until that dark nadir is reached the experiential adventure of existence remains incomplete, and Self is not yet endowed with the entire spectrum of the light of consciousness - from spirit to matter - from the highest high to the lowest low. Lon Milo DuQuette spiritual dark adventure Do I think I'm a holy man? Sometimes. Lon Milo DuQuette sometimes men thinking God and I will achieve Supreme Enlightenment at the same moment. Lon Milo DuQuette enlightenment achieve moments 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'. Lon Milo DuQuette selfish too-much mind
