That does sound solid, but remember a system is only as secure as the humans who operate it.
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Importantly, he also encourages us to remember that this deity is really just one reflection of the divine. If we lose sight of this, we risk overly identifying with a partial force, rather than the one spiritual star in our sight—the HGA.
David Shoemaker, Living Thelema: A Practical Guide to Attainment in Aleister Crowley’s System of Magick [Bookshop, Amazon]
if you bother to remember anything from my ramblings, please remember this: once you turn your back on something, you have no more right to act as though you own it.
Tamsyn Muir, Harrow the Ninth [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]
“I should tell you all with pleasure,” said the General, “but you would not believe me.” “Why should I not?” he asked. “Because,” he answered testily, “you believe in nothing but what consists with your own prejudices and illusions. I remember when I was like you, but I have learned better.” “Try me,” said my father; “I am not such a dogmatist as you suppose. Besides which, I very well know that you generally require proof for what you believe, and am, therefore, very strongly predisposed to respect your conclusions.”
Joseph Sheridan le Fanu, Carmilla [Bookshop, Amazon, Internet Archive]
A symbol, in a climate of symbols. Nothing is without significance.
Benjanun Sriduangkaew, Winterglass [Bookshop, Amazon, DriveThruFiction, Publisher]
To become wise, they would have to learn the true meaning of their own doctrines, symbols, and books, of which they at present merely know the outward form and the dead letter. They would have to form a much higher and nobler conception of God than to invest Him with the attributes of semi-animal man.
Franz Hartmann, With The Adepts [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher, Hermetic Library]
Etched on his cuirass was a stylized scroll, symbol of the Living Library, surmounted by the phrase Auvidestes, Gerani, Molokare. The words were Alaurin, the ancient language of formal scholarship, and they formed the motto of the Librarians: RETRIEVE. RETURN. SURVIVE.
Scott Lynch, In the Stacks [Amazon]
For the Game is of course purely a symbol of the human imagination and emphatically not a patentable “Monopoly” of the mind.
Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]
A confusion glyph. A symbol that said “Look away.” New York City magic. Sometimes it worked.
T Thorn Coyle, Alighting on His Shoulders: Ten Tales From Sideways Worlds [Amazon, T Thorn Coyle]
Well, it was bound to happen sooner or later, her war, her taking on a symbol and a reality that outweighed her. Now my insurance rates will go up, she realized as she climbed from her car. In this world you pay for tilting with evil in cold, hard cash.
Philip K Dick, A Scanner Darkly [Bookshop, Amazon, Publisher]
