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“On the Samael Qlipha, the magician makes a pact with the dark forces and realizes the invitation of Friedrich Neitzsche to re-evaluate old values. Insanity becomes wisdom; death becomes life. Samael is the 'Poison of God.' Here is where illusions are poisoned, and all categories and conceptions are deconstructed until nothing is left. The dark side of the astral plane could be compared to a chalice filled with poison or an intoxicating fluid. While Gamaliel is the chalice, Samael is the elixir and the following lower Qlipha, A'arab Zaraq, is where the magician experiences the effect.”

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Book:Qabalah, Qliphoth and Goetic Magic
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“He suffers, so to speak, from the violence done to him by the self. The analogous passion of Christ signifies God's suffering on account of the injustice of the world and the darkness of man. The human and the divine set up a relationship of complimentarity with compensating effects. Through the Christ-symbol, man can get to know the real meaning of his suffering: he is on the way to realizing his wholeness. As a result of the integration of conscious and unconscious, his ego enters the “divine” realm, where it participates in “God's suffering.” The cause of the suffering is in both cases the same, namely “incarnation,” which on the human level appears as “individuation.”

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Author:C.G. Jung
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“One not only wants to be understood when one writes, but also quite as certainly not to be understood. It is by no means an objection to a book when someone finds it unintelligible: perhaps this might just have been the intention of its author, perhaps he did not want to be understood by "anyone”. A distinguished intellect and taste, when it wants to communicate its thoughts, always selects its hearers; by selecting them, it at the same time closes its barriers against "the others". It is there that all the more refined laws of style have their origin: they at the same time keep off, they create distance, they prevent "access" (intelligibility, as we have said,) while they open the ears of those who are acoustically related to them.”

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Book:The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
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“To acquire the full consciousness of self is to know oneself so different from others that no longer feels allied with men except by purely animal contacts: nevertheless, among souls of this degree, there is an ideal fraternity based on differences,--while society fraternity is based on resemblances. The full consciousness of self can be called originality of soul, -and all this is said only to point out the group of rare beings to which Andre Gide belongs. The misfortune of these beings, when they express themselves, is that they do it with such odd gestures that men fear to approach them; their life of social contacts must often revolve in the brief circle of ideal fraternities; or, when the mob consents to admit such souls, it is as curiosities or museum objects. Their glory is, finally, to be loved from afar & almost understood, as parchments are seen & read above sealed cases.”

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Book:The Book of Masks
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“The ineffable nuances and numinous intricacies of the supernatural do not adhere to natural laws, nor to materialist superstitions. It will thus forever remain beyond the scope of Newtonian science and the narrow mind.”

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Book:The Sensible Psychic: A Leading-Edge Guide To True Psychic Perception
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“If you really transcend the mind, you don’t feel anything. There is only emptiness for you. Everything that you have experienced so far has existed and become known to you within your mind so, beyond that, there is the void of the unknown. You can’t even comprehend it, you have no senses, no emotions, no standards, and no colors; that world is empty according to your mind.”

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Book:Wor(l)ds from Nothingness
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“That is why you looked up at the stars bitterly at night, searching for yourself; that is why you woke up at dawn from your dreams; that is why you had the feeling of helplessness and of something lacking; that is why you felt hopeless and broken; that is why you felt like crying when you were alone, and that is why you couldn’t fit into any group in your life. Despite all the pain and bitterness, it is the most natural feeling you have ever felt. Your own voice kept calling you home. Not letting you lose yourself forever.”

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Book:Wor(l)ds from Nothingness
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“Instead of describing psychic phenomena as ‘paranormal,’ I prefer the term supernatural, because it refers to metaphysical or transcendental phenomena beyond human understanding. The supernatural does not adhere to natural laws, nor to parochial notions about what should be considered 'normal.' It can therefore not be conveniently 'explained away’ by physics or empirical science.”

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Book:The Sensible Psychic: A Leading-Edge Guide To True Psychic Perception
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“A flower doesn’t boom through being pried open through force, likewise, psychic receptivity cannot be achieved through strain. Psychic receptivity comes with a state of mental passivity while simultaneously staying focused and open. We open ourselves up through relaxation. We want a focused flow, not force.”

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Book:Psychic Witch: A Metaphysical Guide to Meditation, Magick & Manifestation
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