Occult Quotes - Page 2

• Witchcraft is, and was, not... for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of the world into the world of faery, it is of no use to you.

  Gerald Gardner

  Feelings, Use, World

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• Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

  Umberto Eco

  Believe, Followers, Knows

  Umberto Eco (2012). “Inventing the Enemy and Other Occasional Writings”, p.219, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Siddha powers are a type of occult power, but occult powers come in many shapes and forms. The Siddha powers that you most commonly hear about are things like levitation, telepathy, and astral projection.

  Frederick Lenz

  Power, Levitation, Shapes

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• The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

  Shawn Ashmore

  Character, Magic, Fantasy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Perhaps enlightenment, technology and secularism haven't cleared Europe of the oldest science of all - the occult.

  Adam Nevill

  Technology, Europe, Enlightenment

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• We should always keep an open mind about any new phenomenon in nature. To merely say that's impossible, therefore it doesn't exist, is to commit a serious error. A much better approach would be to say That's quite unlikely, but show me the evidence you have that says that it may be so. It would be the height of arrogance to think that man knows everything possible about the Universe or the Earth. There are many things yet to be discovered, and that is why we have scientific research (or any kind of research). That should be the rationalist's approach to parapsychology and the occult.

  Gordon Stein

  Men, Thinking, Errors

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• Rae Chorze Fwaz was a mystery school. A mystery school is an occult order comprised of people who study meditation, enlightenment and psychic and occult arts.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, School, Psychics

  Frederick Lenz (1994). “Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap”, Interglobal Seminars

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• A turkey is more occult and awful than all the angels and archangels. In so far as God has partly revealed to us an angelic world, he has partly told us what an angel means. But God has never told us what a turkey means. And if you go and stare at a live turkey for an hour or two, you will find by the end of it that the enigma has rather increased than diminished.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mean, Angel, Turkeys

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• Harvey , Galileo , Copernicus do not seem occult to us, but they did so to their contemporaries, hierophants of the mysteries of Natural Law, revealers of the secrets of a New Order of the Ages. After all, the movement eventually came to be called the Age of Enlightenment.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Order, Law, Secret

  Kenneth Rexroth (1968). “Classics Revisited”, p.132, New Directions Publishing

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• After all, film is so porous, and to my mind, so oddly occult, that I think that film itself absorbs odd energies like a living skin.

  Barbara Steele

  Thinking, Mind, Skins

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• It is not a nature cure, a system of faith healing, or a physical culture, or a medical treatment, or a semi-occult philosophy. As to what it is, Dewey's brief but striking description appeals most and has the least chance of being proved incorrect: 'It the Alexander Technique bears the same relation to education that education itself bears to all other human activities.'

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Healing, Technique

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• The symbolic display seen by the abductees is identical to the type of initiation ritual or astral voyage that is imbedded in the [occult] traditions of every culture...the structure of abduction stories is identical to that of occult initiation rituals...the UFO beings of today belong to the same class of manifestation as the [occult] entities that were described in centuries past.

  Jacques Vallee

  Past, Class, Culture

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• Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.

  Terence McKenna

  Book, Limits, Wells

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• When people talk about imagination, they tend to think of fantasy or something made-up. But really imagination is a mode of perception. Which is maybe why so many artists have turned to the occult. Artists tend to feel like outsiders. Whether they are actually outsiders or not is also kind of irrelevant.

  Janaka Stucky

  Artist, Thinking, People

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Sympathy, Nature, Fishing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.66, Harvard University Press

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• The voice of every kid hooked on drugs, alcohol or the occult joins the sad chorus "Not me! I didn't think it could ever happen to me. I was sure I could handle it.

  Beatrice Sparks

  Kids, Thinking, Voice

  Beatrice Sparks (1990). “Jay's Journal”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• I think horror should have occult elements, not as its subject but as its ambition. It is a machine that destroys illusion. I, of course, never achieve this, but I always act as if I can.

  Tony Burgess

  Ambition, Thinking, Should Have

  Interview with Jonathan Ball, logger.believermag.com. August 31, 2015.

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• The governments of the Western nations, whether monarchical or republican, had passed into the invisible hands of a plutocracy, international in power and grasp. It was, I venture to suggest, this semi-occult power which....pushed the mass of the American people into the cauldron of World War I.

  J. F. C. Fuller

  War, World Government, Hands

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• I do not yet know why plants come out of the land or float in streams, or creep on rocks or roll from the sea. I am entranced by the mystery of them and absorbed by their variety and kinds. Everywhere, they are visible yet everywhere occult.

  Liberty Hyde Bailey

  Rocks, Sea, Land

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• It is an occult law moreover, that no man can rise superior to his individual failings without lifting, be it ever so little, the whole body of which he is an integral part. In the same way no one can sin, nor suffer the effects of sin, alone. In reality, there is no such thing as 'separateness' and the nearest approach to that selfish state which the laws of life permit is in the intent or motive.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Selfish, Reality, Men

  H.P. Blavatsky (2007). “The Key to Theosophy by H.P. Blavatsky”, p.126, Theosophy Trust Books

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• The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you're taught to live up to a what should be that never existed - only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be - then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!

  Lenny Bruce

  Religion, Stones, Superstitions

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• This is the law of prosperity: When apparent adversity comes, be not cast down by it, but make the best of it, and always look forward for better things, for conditions more prosperous. To hold yourself in this attitude of mind is to set into operation subtle, silent, and irresistible forces that sooner or later will actualize in material form that which is today merely an idea. But ideas have occult power, and ideas, when rightly planted and rightly tended, are the seeds that actualize material conditions.

  Ralph Waldo Trine

  Attitude, Adversity, Law

  Ralph Waldo Trine, Mina Parker (2012). “Thoughts I Met on the Highway: Create the Life You Want, A Hampton Roads Collection”, p.14, Hampton Roads Publishing

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• Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs.

  Karl Marx

  Eggs, Golden, Offspring

  Karl Marx, Eden Paul (1933). “Capital”

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• Among the great men who have philosophized about [the action of the tides], the one who surprised me most is Kepler. He was a person of independent genius, [but he] became interested in the action of the moon on the water, and in other occult phenomena, and similar childishness.

  Galileo Galilei

  Independent, Science, Moon

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• Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

  Karl Marx

  Money, Eggs, Golden

  "Capital, Volume I". Book by Karl Marx, Vol. I, Ch. 4, pp. 171 - 172, 1867.

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