Do you believe in an invisible reality behind appearances? by Dion Fortune

Do you believe in an invisible reality behind appearances?

Dion Fortune

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When we speak of the Path we mean much more than a course of study. The Path is a way of life and on it the whole being must co-operate if the heights are to be won.

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Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in... by Dion Fortune

Magick is the art of causing changes in consciousness to occur in accordance with the will.

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What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imaginati... by Dion Fortune

What you contemplate, you touch. What you enter into in imagination, you make yourself one with.

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We live in the midst of invisible forces whose effects alone we perceive. We move among invisible forms whose actions we very often do not perceive at all, though we may be profoundly affected by them.

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A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism. by Dion Fortune

A religion without a goddess is halfway to atheism.

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To say that a thing is imaginary is not to dispose of it in the realm of mind, for the imagination, or the image making faculty, is a very important part of our mental functioning. An image formed by the imagination is a reality from the point of view of psychology; it is quite true that it has no physical existence, but are we going to limit reality to that which is material? We shall be far out of our reckoning if we do, for mental images are potent things, and although they do not actually exist on the physical plane, they influence it far more than most people suspect.

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Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended a... by Dion Fortune

Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand--an extended application of its powers.

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The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spi... by Dion Fortune

The descent into matter must be complete before the ascent to spirit can commence.

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The true secret of natural goodness lies in the recognition of the contending rights of the Pairs of Opposites; there is no such antimony as between Good and Evil, but only balance between two extremes, each of which is evil when carried to excess, both of which give rise to evil if insufficient for equipoise.

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We take spiritual initiation when we become conscious of the Divine within us, and thereby contact the Divine without us.

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I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives and right associates.

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The Door Without a Key is the Door of Dreams; it is the door by which the sensitive escape into insanity when life is too hard for them, and artists use it as a window in a watch-tower. Psychologists call it a psychological mechanism; magicians call it magic, and the man in the street calls it illusion or charlatanry according to taste. It does not matter to me what it is called, for it is effectual.

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There is no essential difference between sticking pins into a wax image of an enemy and burning candles in front of a wax image of the Virgin. You may think that both these practices are gross superstition, but you can hardly think that one is real and potent and deny reality and potency to the other.

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The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon. by Dion Fortune

The Scorpion connects with the Serpent through the Dragon.

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The driving forces of the universe, the framework upon which it is built up in all its parts, belong to another phase of manifestation than our physical plane, having other dimensions than the three to which we are habituated, and perceived by other modes of consciousness than those to which we are accustomed.

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In varying degrees and and upon different levels all gods and goddesses represent aspects of One God Which is both 'male' and 'female'.

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A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A ritual lodge is no place for the well-meaning ineffectual.

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All gods are one God, and all goddesses are one Goddess, and ther... by Dion Fortune

All gods are one God, and all goddesses are one Goddess, and there is one Initiator.

The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.

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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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