Top 35 Peter J. Carroll Quotes
#1. Science has brought us power and ideas but not the wisdom or responsibility to handle them.
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#2. Only through absolute loyalty to each other can the few control the many.
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#3. If only one fifth of your spells work you have real power. If only one fifth of your divinations work you have a serious disability.
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#4. Do you use 'True Will' as an excuse to do nothing?
Have you declared yourself enlightened?
Damn your weak philosophies; a pox and a pestilence your despicable sloth and arrogance.
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#5. In Chaos Magic, beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects.
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#6. As belief in one's capabilities self-evidently leads to increasing capabilities, magicians consider it worthwhile to believe in their ability to accomplish the impossible, even if they only succeed at this occasionally.
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#7. If someone claims to have free will, ask them, free from precisely what?
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#8. Governments will be provided with the choice of either accommodating themselves to co-ordinating proliferating human variety or seeking to reduce that variety by repressive measures.
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#9. Half of the skill in magick consists of identifying probabilities worth enhancing.
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#10. Flat Earth theory serves well enough for a trip from the cave to the water hole and back, and a third dimension going up into the sky and down underground serves to accommodate gods and devils A lot of people still think like that, believe it or not.
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#11. Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.
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#12. WE CAN ONLY ESCAPE THE BLOODY AND IGNORANT NIGHTMARE OF HISTORY BY EXPLORING ALTERNATIVES WHICH TODAY LOOK FRIGHTENINGLY WEIRD.
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#13. Indeed, linear extrapolations make no large-scale sense in a universe that has spatial and temporal curvature.
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#14. So many people seem to spend their lives trying to appear normal, predictable and consistent to themselves and those that surround them. They just end up bored with themselves, bereft of any depth of inner resources, suffocated by the inhibitions that defend their own monolithic identities.
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#15. We doubt that any facts actually exist. We only have observations and interpretations. Most of the interpretations remain questionable.
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#16. The starry-eyed idealists of today have submerged their critical faculties beneath a tidal wave of slop marketed by those old hippies who now sell a user-friendly dilution of their original enlightenment.
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#17. It has taken us two million years to elevate politics from the level of a monkey squabble, to a level comprehensible to a six year old child.
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#18. No left wing parties have any respect for liberal economic values; and most centre and right wing parties merely promote a paternalistic stateism. Does it thus fall to the self-reliant students of the ruggedly individualist philosophy of magick to champion a certain measured libertarianism ?
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#19. Never join a conspiracy that you could possibly betray, because if you could, someone else will.
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#20. Matter can be conveniently divided for descriptive purposes into space , time , mass, and energy . However we can only describe any one of these phenomena in terms of the other three. Any definitions we care to make about matter are thus tautological .
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#21. Self-Professed Black Magicians seem universally unable to fight, fuck, or even buy their way out of wet paper bags, despite phantasizing constantly about becoming powerful psychopaths.
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#22. As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water .
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#23. Those who self-righteously value their own contradictions are mighty on this Earth.
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#24. Junk food, junk religion, and junk products just leads to excessive numbers of junk people living junk lifestyles.
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#25. That which is denied gains power, and seeks strange and unexpected forms of manifestation.
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#26. Every new form of liberation is destined to eventually become another form of enslavement for most of its adherents.
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#27. The only clear view is from atop the mountain of your dead selves.
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#28. We trust people's lives to randomly selected juries as the only fair method; should we use any less fair method for a nation or a planet?
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#29. Can we find "The Universe in a grain of sand"? Well perhaps, but a stone seems easier to visualize.
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#30. In certain tantric rituals the candidate is first beaten by his guru, hashish forced down him, and he is taken at midnight to a dark cemetery for sacred sexual intercourse. Thus he achieves union with his god.
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#31. [A] competent magician should have the ability to stand still at a bus stop with closed eyes and have the entire universe disappear apart from a single blazing visualised sigil or muttered spell.
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#32. He who is doing his true will is assisted by the momentum of the universe.
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#33. Laughter is the only tenable attitude in a universe which is a joke played on itself.
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#34. Magic doesn't suit everyone. Only those prepared to take full responsibility for themselves should apply.
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#35. Chaos, the life force of the universe, is not human-hearted. Therefore the wizard cannot be human-hearted when he seeks to tap the force of the universe. He performs monstrous and arbitrary acts to loosen the hold of human limitations upon himself.
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