One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.

Dion Fortune

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There is a life behind the personality that uses personalities as masks. There are times when life puts off the mask and deep answers unto deep.

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Those without the gate frequently question the wisdom and right of the occultist to guard his knowledge by the imposition of oaths of secrecy. We are so accustomed to see the scientist give his beneficent discoveries freely to all mankind that we feel that humanity is wronged and defrauded if any knowledge be kept secret by its discoverers and not at once made available for all who desire to share in it.

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The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet—medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in critical cases there is no time to wait for the slow processes of dietetics, so it must be either medicines or nothing. Nevertheless, drugs are no substitute for right diet and wholesome regime, and although magic enables a speedy and potent result to be attained, is is only by means of right understanding and right ethics that the position which has been won can be held.

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Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will. by Dion Fortune

Magic is the art of changing consciousness at will.

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The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and the Gnostics...Its studies were only kept alive during the Dark Ages among the Jews who were the chief exponents of its Cabalistic aspect...and it is still alive today.

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Esoteric science premises the existence of the Great Unmanifest, which may be conceived as a sea of limitless but latent force which underlies all things and whence all things derive their substance and draw their life.

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What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to li... by Dion Fortune

What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness.

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Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.

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No enunciation of the Truth will ever be complete, no method of training will ever be suitable for all temperaments, no one can do more than mark out the little plot of infinity which he intends to cultivate, and thrust in the spade, trusting that the soil may eventually be fruitful and free from weeds so far as the bounds he has set himself extend.

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The man who is an initiate of one of the great Mystery Schools never fears to let his pupils outdistance him, because he knows that it stands him in good stead with his superiors if he is constantly sending up to them aspirants who 'make good.' He therefore never tries to hold back a promising pupil, because he has no need to fear that pupil, if allowed to penetrate into the Mysteries, would spy out the nakedness of the land; he will rather bring back a report of its exceeding richness, and thereby confirm the statements of his teacher and spur his fellow pupils to yet greater eagerness.

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The automatic mind of the patient, the lowest level of subconsciousness which controls the etheric double, is manipulated and is the vehicle of the healing.

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It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

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The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.

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Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose signific... by Dion Fortune

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

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