Paganism famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Our adversaries, numerous and formidable, will say, and will have the right to say, that our Principe CrÇateur is identical with the Principe GÇnÇrateur of the Indians and Egyptians, and may fitly be symbolized as it was symbolized anciently, by the linage...To accept this in lieu of a personal God is to abandon Christianity and worship of Jehovah and return to wallow in the styles of Paganism.
-- Albert Pike -
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
-- Aleister Crowley -
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
-- Augustus Hare -
What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
-- Desiderius Erasmus -
the more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity ...
-- Henrietta Szold -
Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic.
-- Terence McKenna -
Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.
-- Will Durant -
The Nazi regime intended eventually to destroy Christianity in Germany, if it could, and substitute the old paganism of the early Germanic gods and the new paganism of the Nazi extremists.
-- William L. Shirer -
The ancients could communicate with the gods in two ways. First, it was (and is) possible to go into a trance and visit the gods in their celestial retreats, as the great shamans have always done. More easily, and less dangerously, they could let the gods speak through code, that is, divination, using dice, entrails, bird patterns, yarrow sticks, cards.
-- Rachel Pollack -
For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the forms and the forces divine.
-- Doreen Valiente -
Being a Pagan without knowing much about Paganism is a bit silly, in the sense that you would probably have been a Pagan had you known more, but you could not really be because you only knew so much about it.
-- Varg Vikernes
