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“You must start with desire, keeping in mind that with the magic of believing you can obtain what you picture in your mind's eye.”

Mind Believe Eye Desire Belief Magic

Book:The Magic of Believing

Source: The Magic of Believing

“Belief is the magic key that unlocks your dreams.”

Dream Belief Magic Keys Your Dreams

Author:Orrin Woodward

“In Chaos Magic , beliefs are not seen as ends in themselves, but as tools for creating desired effects. To fully realize this is to face a terrible freedom in which nothing is true and everything is permitted, which is to say that everything is possible, there are no certainties , and the consequences can be ghastly.”

Ends Faces Belief Realizing Magic Effects Terrible Creating Consequence Tools Chaos Certainty Ghastly

Book:Liber Kaos

Source: Liber Kaos

“The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into the magic aura are not dealt with rationally but by a specific type of pseudo-reasoning. Absurdities and contradictions are made acceptable by specious rationalizations.”

Mind Kind Made Belief Magic Atheism Type Argument Positive Atheism Defense Reasoning Unconscious Contradiction Acceptable Absurdity Penetrate Auras Pseudo

Author:Arthur Koestler

“Such words as amen, hallelujah, glory and others of like sacred association are repeated endlessly and meaninglessly in the apparent belief that they have in them some strange power for good. This can be no more than high-grade magic. It will pay us to search our own hearts thoroughly to discover just why we use these words.”

Heart Use Belief Pay Magic Strange Glory Sacred Grades Association Amen Hallelujah

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“Passionate grave thought, belief enhanced, ritual returned and magic.”

Belief Magic Passionate Graves Ritual

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”

Source: An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture

“I continue to say that I wish we had another word other than magic. It no longer means what we are doing or we are attempting to do. We have to find another terminology. Magic is first and foremost a way of belief.”

Way Firsts Mean Belief Wish Magic Attempting Terminology

Author:Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki