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Richard Smoley

"Theurgy is ritual magic - but magic that enacts the will of God, not of the magician. Â It brings divine energies down to earth, elevating and spiritualizing the world of matter, including the very being and substance of the participants. Â Each time the believer takes part with attention and devotion,Â he or she becomes more attuned to God."

Source : Richard Smoley, Jay Kinney (2012). “Hidden Wisdom: A Guide to the Western Inner Traditions”, p.53, Quest Books

Richard Smoley

#Magic Quotes #Attention Quotes #Substance Quotes

“If I was whisked away... I think I could put up with anything, except not seeing the Australian landscape. It would be a torture to have it cut off.”
“I see Edward Snowden as someone who has chosen, at best, exile from the country he loves-with a serious risk of his assassination by agents of his government or life in prison (in solitary confinement)-to awaken us to the danger of our loss of democracy to a total-surveilla nce state”
“If we just keep sleeping together we'll just be one race and it won't be a problem.”
“I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it. If the truth contradicts deeply held beliefs, that is too bad. Tact and diplomacy are fine in international relations, in politics, perhaps even in business; in science only one thing matters, and that is the facts.”

Source : Interview to Chinese Media in India, mea.gov.in. May 09, 2013.
“Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred.”
“If he hadn't been my father I would have loved the spectacle he created-one performance following quickly upon another-like a versatile old vaudevil-lian with his audience (wife and children) in the palm of his hand.”
“Essayists, like poets, are born and not made, and for one worth remembering, the world is confronted with a hundred not worth reading. Your true essayist is, in a literary sense, the friend of everybody.”
“I am not a Christian or a Jew or a Mohammedan, a Mormon, Polygamist, Homosexual, Anarchist or Boxer. . . . I do not believe that, in order to be religious in the good and genuine sense of the word, one has to ruin one's love life and has to become rigid and shrunken in body and soul. I know that what you call "God" actually exists, but in a different way from what you think: as the primal cosmic energy in the universe, as your love in your body, as your honesty and your feeling of nature in you and around you.”

Source : Wilhelm Reich (1948). “Listen, Little Man!: A Document from the Archives of the Orgone Institute”

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