Quotes About Occult

#1. 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

#2. What you're calling evil, is part of human nature.

Nikolas Schreck

#3. Don't regret your despondency in the shadows of evil, for the good light never did anything to erase your misery.

Michael Bassey Johnson

#4. Truth is not a right to be claimed, but a gift for those who are able to conquer it.

Luis Marques

#5. It's a cinch that if you read it in an occult periodical or paperback, everyone's doing it. That should be your cue to avoid such stuff, lest you be relegated to the same readership level.

Anton Szandor LaVey

#6. They have to know, for we know , that reincarnation is real.

N.K.David

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

Adam Nevill

#8. I've often thought that there isn't any "I" at all; that we are simply the means of expression of something else; that when we think we are ourselves, we are simply the victims of a delusion.

Aleister Crowley

#9. 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

#10. There is this school of thought that says the usage of all mystical and occult powers is bad. I find that thought is usually propounded by people who don't have any powers. It's kind of a sour grapes attitude.

Frederick Lenz

#11. Do not judge others, without first judging yourself. There is no strength without knowing thyself.

Luis Marques

#12. The true God is to be venerated in obscure and fearful Places, with Horror in their Approaches, and thus did our Ancestors worship the Daemon in the form of great Stones.

Peter Ackroyd

#13. Determined will is the beginning of all magical operations. It is because men do not perfectly imagine and believe the result, that the (occult) arts are so uncertain, while they might be perfectly certain.

Paracelsus

#14. Friday, August 04, 2006
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posted 8:31 AM
Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny.

William Gibson

#15. If the soul is immortal then it is one with the Godhead.

N.K.David

#16. Whether important policy decisions are made at Bohemian Grove or not,
it is at the very least disturbing to know that our leaders are gathering together
to worship a massive owl, dress in robes, and recite occult incantations.

Donald Jeffries

#17. Unless men work at occultism as they work for the prizes of their professions they will not achieve.

Dion Fortune

#18. An evolved and balanced Ego can be a valuable tool for the Self. But a blinding one is always among the first footsteps into Oblivion.

Luis Marques

#19. I tell you, Richard, if you ever get ready to sell your soul, don't bother to sell it to another human being. It's bad business to even consider such a thing.

Anne Rice

#20. Are you introducing young children to the occult? said Madam Frout suspiciously. This sort of thing caused a lot of trouble with parents, she was well aware.

Terry Pratchett

#21. Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.

Eliphas Levi

#22. Understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned.

Nostradamus

#23. 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

#24. On the left hand path we take the direct route, which is much more strenuous, much more dangerous, and much more likely to cause you to fall.

Zeena Schreck

#25. The genre of fantasy is about magic and occult characters.

Shawn Ashmore

#26. A cute girl, a pissed off Were-spider, and an occult boulnty hunter carrying a small arsenal walk into a bar ...
I bet this joke was gonna have one helluva punch line.

James R Tuck

#27. Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.

Daryl Hall

#28. Beautiful sunrise in the far away mountains, painting the wide horizon with vibrant warm colors, among the chill from the morning breeze.

Luis Marques

#29. If you are interested in developing some of the higher range occult powers, then I would suggest you not engage in sex too frequently.

Frederick Lenz

#30. Only with the idea (which has become rare today) that there is a revealed truth that is above all experience, can this occult realm be enlightened, its true nature recognized and a discernment made between this lower realm and the higher realm of heaven.

Seraphim Rose

#31. I'm not so naive that I didn't know or didn't suspect that, at some point, someone was going to say "You're writing about the occult." My wizarding world is a world of imagination. I think it is a moral world.

J.K. Rowling

#32. Most souls are into power on the earth. Most souls here are developing their occult body.

Frederick Lenz

#33. The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#34. When you embrace a sacred relationship with your inner witch, you awaken within you qualities of the elements and forces of nature. This is the discovery and the connection of your powerful self.

Dacha Avelin

#35. The second attention is the occult side of the being. It is the ability to manipulate others, be it for good or ill intent.

Frederick Lenz

#36. All cats are gray in the dark. And besides, her actions have less to do with her, and everything to do with you.

Jaye Frances

#37. It is better not to apply any treatment in cases of occult cancer; for if treated (by surgery), the patients die quickly; but if not treated, they hold out for a long time.

Hippocrates

#38. Trust in the fictive process, in the occult interweaving of text and event must be unwavering and absolute. This is the magic place, the mad place at the spark gap between word and world.

Alan Moore

#39. We are our own gods.

Zeena Schreck

#40. Real writers never show their teeth. Charlatans, in contrast, flash that sinister crescent when they smile. Check it out. Find photos of all the writers you respect, and you'll see that their teeth remain a permanently occult mystery.

Valeria Luiselli

#41. Ah yes, now you're beginning to feel it. It's so satisfying to see my best efforts coming to fruition. Undoubtedly one of the most gratifying rewards of my profession. It would warm my heart - if I had one.

Jaye Frances

#42. All that was left to us was to wonder: who knows all that is innate to this world, or to any other? Why should there not be something buried deep within appearances, something that wears a mask to hide itself behind the visibility of nature?

Thomas Ligotti

#43. The greatest delight the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation between man and the vegetable. I am not alone and unacknowledged. They nod to me and I to them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#44. Sometimes death is just the beginning

Nora Jones

#45. Magrat bought occult jewelry as a sort of distraction from being Magrat. She had three large boxes of the stuff and was still exactly the same person.

Terry Pratchett

#46. Young people are caught up in whatever appears to be the most bizarre. They look for truth and settle for folly. False religions and the occult are clever in reaching seekers who want to experience a rush of any kind.

Billy Graham

#47. Woe to that seven months abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocking the call of duty, sneaks off to stare at a wall in China!

Aleister Crowley

#48. I promise to tell you everything you want, but first I want something from you in return.
What do you want? Olivia asked.
I want a kiss, William said. You and I, we're making a deal of sorts ... a bargain that we will keep each other's secrets ...

Evette Davis

#49. Left hand path magick is generally socially unacceptable.

Nikolas Schreck

#50. Black Magick is the process of self-transformation through an antinomian initiatory structure, Black meaning the hidden wisdom, power of darkness, dreams and staging the reality you wish and Magick being the process to ascend, become immortal in spirit.

Michael W. Ford

#51. Like most people, my views about ghosts and haunted places were traditional while growing up. I believed ghosts were human spirits. Not that I talked to many people about the subject or my experiences. I assumed people would think I was weird.

Kristine McGuire

#52. Words are sigils that can hide the coded language of your Soul.

Luis Marques

#53. Light, Life and Love are like three glow-worms at thy feet: the whole universe of stars, the dewdrops on the grass whereon thou walkest!

Aleister Crowley

#54. There is a large difference between spacing out in the lower occult astral planes, weird, junky, fuzzy energy, and meditation. Meditation is sharp, clear, precise, perfect, luminous, shiny, happy, etheric, cosmic, and dissolute.

Frederick Lenz

#55. The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God .

Albert Pike

#56. To become an Asetian is to die and be reborn. To forget all you have learned and learn all you have forgotten.

Luis Marques

#57. No matter how hard you try, after the Day there will always be a Night ...

Luis Marques

#58. In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of something that is essentially imaginative.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

#59. One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way.

Gary Sloan

#60. I enjoy the writings of all of these authors and they have been very inspirational for me. But I think that it is important as writers of metaphysical, New Age, occult fiction and nonfiction to not take ourselves too seriously.

Frederick Lenz

#61. 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

#62. Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Aleister Crowley

#63. The word of sin is Restriction. O man! refuse not thy wife, if she will! O lover, if thou wilt, depart! There is no bond that can unite the divided but love: all else is a curse. Accursed! Accursed be it to the aeons! Hell.

Aleister Crowley

#64. If Heaven was a summer sky and a TV left on mute, then the Underworld was a starry night and an electric guitar with amps.

Charity Parkerson

#65. Did you ever face Death and let it stare back at you right in the Eyes?

Luis Marques

#66. Queen Katherine, whose boys have all died, takes it patiently: that is to say, she suffers.

Hilary Mantel

#67. She had understood before she had ever dreamed of a city such as this, where every texture, every color, leapt out at you, where every fragrance was a drug, and the air itself was something alive and breathing.

Anne Rice

#68. There is no more foul or relentless enemy of man in the occult world than this dead-alive creature spewed up from the grave.

Guy Endore

#69. Goddess of immemorable cloudy veils, reveal your magickal powers so we may re-attune our psyches to your multi-dimensional realities and thereby draw your power to heal this worldly habitat and return it to the provocative Sisterhood of Your Milky Way.

Lady Svetlana

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

Karl Marx

#71. Sometimes the dim veil between sanity and insanity is perception.

Luis Marques

#72. 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

#73. You are the most powerful tool in your life. Use your energy, your thoughts and your magick wisely!

Dacha Avelin

#74. Immortal beings have been compared to stars, these are existences that linger on long after the death of the thing itself.

Zeena Schreck

#75. What we are doing is taking an occult energy; it's amplifying in the chakras and the hands. Then we are neutralizing it and spreading it through the being.

Frederick Lenz

#76. Why do you want so much this new beginning? Do you think the new beginning will postpone the end? Are you afraid of the end? Are you afraid of death Michael?" (Ch.35)

Stevan V. Nikolic

#77. Rivers spill mysteries into the ocean, and the ocean washes the answer to the shore.

Tanja Kobasic

#78. It is safer to face a strong enemy in the field of battle, than to fight a war by the side of a weak friend.

Luis Marques

#79. I know the devices of a demon. I was taught as a child about the demon lover. I was told about a beautiful temptress who came to a young man's room. And he, if he were wise, would demand that she turn around, because demons and witches have no back, only what they wish to present to you.

Michael Ondaatje

#80. When a witch embodies self-love, her energy becomes magnetic and her sense of possibility becomes contagious.

Dacha Avelin

#81. Thery're both iron, isn't that funny?"
"Funny haha or funny strange?"
James handed them back to me "Funny 'occult'"
"Ah. Funny strange"
James looked at me sternly, "Don't start that. I'm supposed to be the humorous one

Maggie Stiefvater

#82. Tarot helps us look within ourselves to understand our emotions, the reasoning behind our words and conduct, and the source of our conflicts.

Benebell Wen

#83. Beauty is itself so unattainable that it escapes altogether; and the true artist, like the true Mystic, can never rest

Aleister Crowley

#84. It was surely one thing to respect the Dark Arts as a dangerous enemy, another to speak of them with a loving caress in his voice?

J.K. Rowling

#85. Becoming a Witch isn't something we acquire. The Witch is already within us. She is someone we become ready and willing to embrace. Someone we realize we ARE.

Dacha Avelin

#86. Have I ever told you you're like some kind of occult superhero? Georgia Clare: bookkeeper by day, badass biker witch by night. Seriously, you should put that on your business cards.

Laura Oliva

#87. Gravity, interpreted as an innate attraction between every pair of particles of matter, was an occult quality in the same sense as the scholastics' "tendency to fall" had been

Thomas S. Kuhn

#88. The sun sets, the strange clouds glowing eerily like a full moon laced with arsenic and occult warnings.
Eternity stretches out her mocking red carpet, hinting at the long lonely walk of regret I have ahead of me.

Poppet

#89. Humans are naturally scared and confused beings. They not only fear the unknown, as they live fearing themselves ...

Luis Marques

#90. Sometimes, he thought of himself as an elephant walking through the china store, breaking everything in his path and still expecting people not to be angry with the damage he made, but rather to admire his strength and his endurance.

Stevan V. Nikolic

#91. 2 Corinthians 11:14 And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

P. Walter Gagnon

#92. Books are like Tarot decks. They provide answers and guidance but more importantly, they are doorways and portals to the otherworld and the imagination. They leave their imprint and keep whispering to us long after we close the pages or shuffle the deck.

Sasha Graham

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

Dion Fortune

#94. 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

#95. For who can speak of the Mazes of the Serpent to those who are not lost in them?

Peter Ackroyd

#96. 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

#97. Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.

Marcel Boulestin

#98. Keda's oldness was the work of fate, alchemy. An occult agedness. A transparent darkness. A broken and mysterious grove. A tragedy, a glory, a decay. - Titus Groan

Mervyn Peake

#99. The night is Ours. Rejoicing in the ethereal realms where We are kings. Blessed souls of forgotten immortality. They fear Us in every grasp.

Luis Marques

#100. Humans spend more time finding ways to fight and criticize who they consider a threat than actually learning how to overcome that threat.

Luis Marques