I would teach you the new ritual of ‘Arrivism’: If you would realize God you must first re-create your God within. You can become God by expurgating—for what is without is an exhausting-transudating past.
Austin Osman Spare, The Logomachy of Zos
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Even though so many past and present conspiracy theories are exercises in paranoia rather than history, there have been real conspiracies down through the years; it’s worth remembering that even the Bavarian Illuminati did actually exist at one point, and attempted (however clumsily) a program of political subversion in late eighteenth-century Germany. Distasteful as it may be to modern scholarship, the material is there, and needs to be dealt with.
John Michael Greer, Caduceus III 2, An Embarrassment of Secrets
But—unhappy as you see me—crushed, overwhelmed with deep affliction as you behold me—anxious, but unable to repent for the past as I am, and filled with appalling dread for the future as I now proclaim myself to be, still is my power far, far beyond that limit which hems mortal energies within so small a sphere.
George W M Reynolds, Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf [Amazon, Amazon (Dover), Gutenberg, Publisher, Local Library]
You and I have both known him, and I don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say it’s an experience we shan’t ever forget. And even when he and I met in the middle of China, with his mind a blank and his past a mystery, there was still that queer core of attractiveness in him.
James Hilton, Lost Horizon: A Novel
The night that seemed endless hours before is now slipping from your fingers, ticking by as it falls into the past and pushes you toward the future.
Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
The past is the cosmopolitan’s mother country, the universal fatherland, an endless library.
Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night
“you’re not accustomed to history, most facts about the past do sound incredible.”
—Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
