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so this text somewhat speaks for itself. for some reason it was also in the why have i not completed you yet? pile. a text for anyone who is interested in the inner & outer workings of these worlds… a friendly reminder & mind blower all at the same time. take your time with it & like all great works revisit…
- 5.0/5.0
- a simple & introductory text to hermetic teachings. coupled with good intent this text can take even a novice quite far. from the principles of polarity, to the principles of gender, the kybalion easily takes one through the highs & lows of life.
- i highly suggest purchasing this book for your personal library. it is filled with life gems & words of wisdom
Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews River of Gods by Ian McDonald.
River of Gods - The Hermetic Library Blog
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“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 #AffiliateLink #book #quote The Hermetic Library Blog
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she had spent a few minutes performing her standard thinking-and-calming ritual: eating toast. And yet, not merely eating toast; eating toast as a meditative practice.
Phoenix Baker, Mittens: A story about two women falling in love and doing really weird things to each other #AffiliateLink #book #quote The Hermetic Library Blog
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Wormtongue whispers: “I think it is important that we understand the context in which those comments were given … ”
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Briefly, Truth is an idea of a supra-rational order, pertaining to Neschamah, not to Ruach. That all rational conceptions imply that we know Truth, and that Truth is in their propositions, only shows that these so-called rational ideas are not really rational at all. Truth is by no means the only idea that resists rational analysis. There are very many ideas that remain indefinable: all simple ideas do so. At the back of all our efforts is the dead wall that we must already know what we are pretending to find out.
Aleister Crowley, Little Essays Toward Truth, Truth #book #quote The Hermetic Library Blog
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The initiate chooses to set foot on a new path; but the path itself was already there in some form – what is new is the fact that this particular initiate is now walking on it. Initiation is the beginning of something new, and it is the conservation and renewal of something already established.
Sabazius,Initiation #book #quote #speech The Hermetic Library Blog
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I sailed for Ceylon, chiefly because I had said I would go, certainly not in the hope of assistance from Allan. Perhaps because I had found my feet, he was, as will appear, allowed to guide them, in what seemed at first sight a new Path. I had got to learn that all roads lead to Rome. It is proper, more, it is prudent, more yet, it is educative, for the aspirant to pursue all possible Ways to Wisdom. Thus he broadens the base of his Pyramid, thus he diminishes the probability of missing the method which happens to suit him best, thus he insures against the obsession that the goat-track of his own success in the One Highway for all men, and thus he discounts the disappointment of discovering that he is not the Utter, the Unique, when it becomes plain that Magick, mysticism, and the mathematics are triplets, and that the Himalayan Brotherhood is to be found in Brixton.
Aleister Crowley, Confessions, Chapter 27 #quote #book The Hermetic Library Blog
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Just sent out Hermetic Library Newsletter - Issue #58 (a not-at-all-sexy behind-the-scenes technical project) so check it out online!
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Just arrived from Femme Occulte for a special offer from us both to thank Patrons! Let’s open this package together! #mailcall #patron #patreon #patronage I will be posting a first-come special offer over on Patreon for all Patrons with the contents, so head there for more!
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Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews The Hidden Dimension by Edward T Hall.
The Hidden Dimension - The Hermetic Library Blog
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Hermetic Library Fellow T Polyphilus reviews Occult Paris: The Lost Magic of the Belle Époque by Tobias Churton.
Occult Paris - The Hermetic Library Blog
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Oh no! I’m all right. One must speak sometimes, one can’t spend one’s life grinning like a Cheshire cat, and pretending one thinks everything perfect.
Florence Farr, The Dancing Faun #book #quote The Hermetic Library Blog
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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 #book #quote The Hermetic Library Blog
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Chesed corresponds to the creative aspects of leadership, and early texts are one-sided in characterising this by love, mercy and majesty. Gevurah corresponds to the conservative aspects of leadership, to the power to preserve the status-quo, and the power to destroy anything opposed to it. These two aspects go hand-in-hand - try to change anything of consequence in society, and someone will invariably oppose that change. To bring about change it is often necessary to have the power to over-rule opposition. Consensus is an impossibility in society - there will always be someone whose opinions are at best ignored and at worst suppressed - and Chesed and Gevurah represent respectively the kingly obligation to seek what is good for the many (enlightened leadership of course!), and the power to judge and punish those opposed to the will of the king.
Colin Low, Introduction to the Kabbalah, “Gevurah and Chesed” #quote #book The Hermetic Library Blog
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A “Christian” of that order ought to be put under restraint, and not allowed to associate with mankind. He carries a moral malaria with him, which poisons the air. He suggests evil to minds which have not thought it. He is a dangerous hypnotist, while pretending to be a disciple of Christ.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, The Heart of the New Thought #affiliatelink #book #quote The Hermetic Library Blog
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To me the mythos is stagnant, boring, and festering. Hardly any new ideas are brought in because too many people are trying to write like Lovecraft or perpetuate the same conventions, but they’re doing it by maintaining the status quo and not offering anything new. And quite frankly, I for one am sick of the same-old, same-old. The same product in a new package doesn’t fly anymore with me, and just the sheer commercialism of the franchise on whole has soured me to it. Not that commercialism is bad, but some of the conventions lumped under it using the mythos are.
Comment by Werecat on Who Cares About the Cthulhu Mythos? in the Key 23 archive #comment #quote
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Dates on the calendar for March that may be of interest to you!
March - Hermeneuticon - Hermetic Library
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