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“The rules of food, of sex, of health, give us ways to avoid facing up to a freedom from care that we may already have within reach. This would be an accomplished freedom from biology, lacking nothing, which we simply don’t know what to do with. What if life were not really a possessive commodity that came in quantities that you gained or lost by your efforts? What if there were no further overcoming of some obstacle (disease, mortality) still to be attained, and we are now in the era of life assured and made free?"

‘Know thyself,’ said the ancient injunction. ‘The unexamined life is not worth living,’ added Socrates. Modern prophets reformulated this for our changed times, once we had become complacent about scientific examination, but stayed mystified by how to be: Become who you are.”

Mark Greif, Against Everything (2016)



Anyone who has meditated a good deal on man, by profession or vocation, is lead to feel nostalgia for the primates. They at least don’t have any ulterior motives.

Albert Camus, The Fall (1956)

The student who waits to master the subject before proceeding to perform Magick, will never master the p=subject nor proceed to perform Magick or f0r that matter anything else.

Chrisopher S. Hyatt

Anyone who refuses to begin a magical operation because of fear of the “evil” forces that might be unleashed if he or she makes a mistake, has already made a mistake that has invoked a far greater ”evil”.

David P. Wilson

“People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It’s not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten.”

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1979)

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