Paganism Quotes - Page 2

Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy.

No one can give you magickal powers. You have to earn them. There is only one way to do this. Practice, practice, practice!

To Witches, the cosmos is the living body of the Goddess, in whose being we all partake, who encompasses us and is immanent within us. We call her Goddess not to narrowly define her gender, but as a continual reminder that what we value is life brought into the world ... She has infinite names and guises, many of them male.

Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.

We are the possibilities and the unshattered dream, we are what gives life magick.

The ancients could communicate with the gods in two ways. First, it was (and is) possible to go into a trance and visit the gods in their celestial retreats, as the great shamans have always done. More easily, and less dangerously, they could let the gods speak through code, that is, divination, using dice, entrails, bird patterns, yarrow sticks, cards.

Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

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.

Christianity did not destroy paganism; it adopted it.

The more I got to knew about Paganism the more Pagan I became, so to say, but I didn't really know enough until after the creation of Burzum.

You are the spell the universe has cast.

Fame is nothing but an empty name.

In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal.

You're certainly not alone in your megalomania. Everyone feels that way-and for good reason. Because it's true!

Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.

The virtue of Paganism was strength: the virtue of Christianity is obedience.

The more I see of Italy and her treasures, the more I see paganism in Christianity.

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.

[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.

If you have no doubt, you are not sane.

I vow to interpret every experience as a direct healing of the Goddess with my soul.

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.

The good part of Christmas is not always Christian -- it is generally Pagan; that is to say, human, natural.

The authentic pagan has no need of religion because, whatever religion can provide, he already has it.