“Why do you think it does work? It’s not as if any of this stuff is true.” “Maybe devils love ritual as much as people do,” she said.

China Miéville, The Last Days of New Paris: A Novel [Amazon, Bookshop, Publisher, Local Library]

Hermetic quote Mieville The Last Days of New Paris not any stuff true maybe devils love ritual as much as people do

Consider also:

  1. Ubik
  2. “Let every man make known what kind of government would command his respect, and that will be one step toward obtaining it.”
  3. Omnium Gatherum: 7oct2020
  4. “Brethren, may we all come to the knowledge how to ‘open the Lodge upon the centre’ of ourselves and so realize in our own conscious experience the finding of the ‘imprisoned splendour’ hidden in the depths of our being, whose rising within ourselves will bring us peace and salvation.”
  5. “It’s not make-up, it’s war paint. It isn’t clothing, it’s armor.”