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What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness.

What mathematics are to matter and force, occult science is to life and consciousness.

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Matter, Consciousness, Mathematics
Dion Fortune (2016). “Sane Occultism”, p.10, Dion Fortune

One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them.

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Sheep, Organization, Black
Dion Fortune (2011). “Psychic Self-Defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.119, Weiser Books

Psychotherapy may begin with the primitive, but it must end with the divine, for both are integral factors in the human mind.

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Mind, May, Divine
Dion Fortune (2016). “The Machinery of the Mind”, p.60, Dion Fortune

The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet—medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in critical cases there is no time to wait for the slow processes of dietetics, so it must be either medicines or nothing. Nevertheless, drugs are no substitute for right diet and wholesome regime, and although magic enables a speedy and potent result to be attained, is is only by means of right understanding and right ethics that the position which has been won can be held.

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Mean, Medicine, Differences
Dion Fortune (2016). “The training and work of an initiate”, p.45, Dion Fortune

It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain.

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May, Gains, Used
Dion Fortune (2016). “Psychic self-defense: The Classic Instruction Manual for Protecting Yourself Against Paranormal Attack”, p.106, Dion Fortune

The highest development was in the Egyptian and Cabalistic systems, and it was blended with Christian thought in the schools of the Neo-Platonists and the Gnostics...Its studies were only kept alive during the Dark Ages among the Jews who were the chief exponents of its Cabalistic aspect...and it is still alive today.

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Christian, School, Dark

The spirit of religious persecution is not the special failing of any particular faith, but springs eternal in the human breast.

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Religious, Spring, Special
"Experience of the Inner Worlds". Book by Gareth Knight, 1975.

Superstition has been defined as the use of a form whose significance has been forgotten.

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Use, Superstitions, Forgotten
Dion Fortune (2000). “The Training & Work of an Initiate”, p.88, Weiser Books

The man who is an initiate of one of the great Mystery Schools never fears to let his pupils outdistance him, because he knows that it stands him in good stead with his superiors if he is constantly sending up to them aspirants who 'make good.' He therefore never tries to hold back a promising pupil, because he has no need to fear that pupil, if allowed to penetrate into the Mysteries, would spy out the nakedness of the land; he will rather bring back a report of its exceeding richness, and thereby confirm the statements of his teacher and spur his fellow pupils to yet greater eagerness.

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Teacher, School, Men
Dion Fortune (2016). “Esoteric Orders And Their Work”, p.52, Dion Fortune

The automatic mind of the patient, the lowest level of subconsciousness which controls the etheric double, is manipulated and is the vehicle of the healing.

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Mind, Body, Vehicle
"Aspects of Occultism".

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