So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.
She changes everything she touches. And everything she touches changes.
Our adversaries, numerous and formidable, will say, and will have the right to say, that our Principe CrÇateur is identical with the Principe GÇnÇrateur of the Indians and Egyptians, and may fitly be symbolized as it was symbolized anciently, by the linage. . . To accept this in lieu of a personal God is to abandon Christianity and worship of Jehovah and return to wallow in the styles of Paganism.
I studied the Koran a great deal. I came away from that study with the conviction there have been few religions in the world as deadly to men as that of Muhammad
The Goddess is Alive. Magic is afoot.
You see, no matter how important everything else is to magical success, belief is the most crucial.
All acts of love and pleasure are my rituals
Let My worship be in the heart that rejoices, for behold, all acts of love and pleasure are My rituals.
Being a Pagan without knowing much about Paganism is a bit silly, in the sense that you would probably have been a Pagan had you known more, but you could not really be because you only knew so much about it.
Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults.
The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.
No day shall erase you from the memory of time
In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.
Religion, as distinguished from modern paganism, implies a life in conformity with nature. It may be observed that the natural life and the supernatural life have a conformity to each other which neither has with the mechanistic life. . . A wrong attitude towards nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude towards God. . . [We should] struggle to recover the sense of relation to nature and to God.
[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on.
No one can give you magickal powers. You have to earn them. There is only one way to do this. Practice, practice, practice!
There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse.
Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.
For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the forms and the forces divine.
