"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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Source : "The Mystical Qabalah". Book by Dion Fortune, 1935.

Dion Fortune

#Mind Quotes #Planes Quotes #Mankind Quotes

“Everything seems beautiful because you don't understand. Those flying fish, they're not leaping for joy, they're jumping in terror. Bigger fish want to eat them. That luminous water, it takes its gleam from millions of tiny dead bodies, the glitter of putrescence. There's no beauty here, only death and decay.”

Source : "Fictional character: Paul Holland". "I Walked with a Zombie", www.imdb.com. 1943.
“I love Inuit art, and most anything you would find in a folk art museum, as well as children's art or children's book illustrators or illustrators in general - all the kinds of work that my paintings would draw comparisons to.”
“Deterrence is the art of producing, in the mind of the enemy, the fear to attack.”
“The trace I leave to me means at once my death, to come or already come, and the hope that it will survive me. It is not an ambition of immortality; it is fundamental. I leave here a bit of paper, I leave, I die; it is impossible to exit this structure; it is the unchanging form of my life. Every time I let something go, I live my death in writing.”
“The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.”
“Luxury and excessive refinement are sure forerunners of the decadence of states, because when all individuals seek their own interests they neglect the public weal.”
“If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.”
“There's not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.”

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