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“Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.”

Needs Belief Bits Blood Terrible Nails Anguish

Book:The Gathering

Source: The Gathering

“Some of the beliefs and legends bequethed to us by Antquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and wether the similarity between them may not point to the exestience of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared.”

May Facts America Humanity Belief Chance Common Missing Terrible Civilization Ancient Dues Former Features Legends Nevertheless Site Accustomed Tempted Similarity Stanley Miss America

Author:Frederick Soddy

“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

“But my belief is growing that our political and social evils are remediable, if only all of us who want a change for the better just get up and work for it, all the time, with as much knowledge and intelligence as we can muster for it. Half the wrongs of human life exist because of the inertia of people who simply will not use their energies in fighting for what they believe in. And finally the wrongs roll up into world catastrophes and millions of deaths and a terrible set-back for all mankind.”

Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter

“There is a terrible alienation in the ordinary man between what he is being told and what he secretly believes.”

Men Believe Belief Terrible Ordinary Alienation Ordinary Man

Author:John le Carre