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To escape, the Spiritual Entity manifests an Image it adopts for him, like a veil. It pretends the Image is moving in a certain direction so the Eye will follow it. At which point the Spiritual Entity escapes its confinement and disappears. Whoever knows this and wishes to maintain perception of the Spiritual, must not let his Eye follow this illusion. This is one of the Divine Secrets.

The Meccan Revelations by Muhiyuddin Ibn Arabi

Quoted in Usman T Malik, The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn

All of Austin’s ambitions, his hopes and dreams for the future, drowned in the fear that he would never escape this forest.

Matthew Lowes, Old Growth

someday everybody’s gonna wake up to find they’re under surveillance they can’t escape

Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice

In Nomine Babalon, CXVII

CXVII

As I come through the ordeal which is bliss,

Careful I tread to avoid the Abyss

And escape the clutches of Choronzon!

I raise up the cup and adore Babalon!

— In Nomine Babalon: 156 Adorations to the Scarlet Goddess

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The Nameless Quest in The Gate of the Sanctuary from The Temple of the Holy Ghost (Collected Works, Vol I) by Aleister Crowley.

“Oh! my pure heart! Adulterous love began
So subtly to identify the man
With its own perfumed thoughts. So steals the grape
Into the furtive brain—a spirit shape
Kisses my spirit as no woman can.
I love her—yes; and I have no escape.
I never spoke, I never looked! But she
Saw through the curtains of the soul of me,
And loved me also! It is very well.
I am well started on the road to Hell.” [via]

The Lesbian Hell in The Gate of the Sanctuary from The Temple of the Holy Ghost (Collected Works, Vol I) by Aleister Crowley.

“Their sighs attract the unsubstantial shapes
Of other women, and their kisses burn
Cold on the lips whose purple blood escapes,
A thin chill stream; they feel not nor discern,
Nor love’s low laugh return.” [via]

Black Magic is Not a Myth in Articles by Aleister Crowley.

“It is like looking for an escape of gas with a lighted candle. As far as the search goes, there is little fear of failure!” [via]

William Blake and his Illustrations to The Divine Comedy in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats.

“he finally escaped from ‘temptations and perturbations’ which sought to destroy ‘the imaginative power’ at ‘the hands of Venetian and Flemish Demons.'” [via]

At Stratford-on-Avon in Ideas of Good and Evil by William Butler Yeats.

“We would escape, too, from those artificial tastes and interests we cultivate, that we may have something to talk about among people we meet for a few minutes and not again, and the arts would grow serious as the Ten Commandments.” [via]

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In Nomine Babalon, CXVII