51 Occult Quotes

List Of 51 Famous Occult Quotes:

#1 Terry Pratchett

”Witches knew that mysterious omens were around all the time. The world was always nearly drowning in mysterious omens.  You just had to pick the one that was convenient.”

#2 Robert Bridges

”Beauty is the highest of all these occult influences, the quality of appearances that thru’ the sense wakeneth spiritual emotion in the mind of man.”

#3 Nostradamus

”Understanding created by the intellect cannot be acquired by means of the occult, only by the aid of the zodiac, bringing forth that small flame by whose light part of the future may be discerned.”

#4 J. Gordon Melton

”As attunement to psychic (occult) reality has grown in America, one often misunderstood and secretive branch of it has begun to flourish also – magical religion.”

#5 Benjamin Creme

”The New Religion will manifest, for instance, through organizations like Masonry. In Freemasonry is embedded the core or the secret heart of the occult mysteries, wrapped up on number, metaphor and symbol.”

#6 Daryl Hall

”Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.”

#7 Alan Ball

”In my own life, I think legends of supernatural, mythic things are really just a manifestation of the collective unconscious. So I don’t really get freaked out. I mean certainly, you read about things people did to each other in the pursuit of some mystical or occult goal, and it’s horrifying. But that’s just human nature.”

#8 Terry Pratchett

”Don’t try to be paranormal until you know what’s normal.”

#9 Marcel Boulestin

”Do not be afraid to talk about food. Food which is worth eating is worth discussing. And there is the occult power of words which somehow will develop its qualities.”

#10 Dion Fortune

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

#11 Paulo Coelho

”There was a time when people accepted magical experiences as natural. There were no priests then, and no one went chasing after the secrets of the occult.”

#12 Janaka Stucky

”When people talk about imagination, they tend to think of fantasy or something made-up. But really imagination is a mode of perception. Which is maybe why so many artists have turned to the occult. Artists tend to feel like outsiders. Whether they are actually outsiders or not is also kind of irrelevant.”

#13 Eliphas Levi

”All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.”

#14 Ralph Waldo Emerson

”In a cabinet of natural history, we become sensible of a certain occult recognition and sympathy in regard to the most unwieldy and eccentric forms of beast, fish, and insect.”

#15 Lenny Bruce

”The thing with Catholicism, the same as all religions, is that it teaches what should be, which seems rather incorrect. This is what should be. Now, if you’re taught to live up to a what should be that never existed – only an occult superstition, no proof of this should be – then you can sit on a jury and indict easily, you can cast the first stone, you can burn Adolf Eichmann, like that!”

#16 Roger Ebert

”Film theory has nothing to do with film. Students presumably hope to find out something about film, and all they will find out is an occult and arcane language designed only for the purpose of excluding those who have not mastered it and giving academic rewards to those who have.”

#17 Karl Marx

“Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.”

#18 Aleister Crowley

“I was in the death struggle with self: God and Satan fought for my soul those three long hours. God conquered — now I have only one doubt left — which of the twain was God?”

#19 Dion Fortune

“Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand–an extended application of its powers.”

#20 Terence McKenna

”Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the ‘limit text’ of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.”

#21 Frederick Lenz

”Siddha powers are a type of occult power, but occult powers come in many shapes and forms. The Siddha powers that you most commonly hear about are things like levitation, telepathy, and astral projection.”

#22 H. P. Blavatsky

”Spiritualism in the hands of an adept becomes Magic, for he is learned in the art of blending together the laws of the Universe, without breaking any of them and thereby violating Nature.”

#23 Dion Fortune

“Occultism has no Pope.”

#24 Dacha Avelin

“Witches are liberated from their own fears and limited thinking. In turn, their presence has the power to liberate and consciously expand others.”

#25 Dan Brown

”The word occult, despite conjuring images of devil worship, actually means ‘hidden’ or ‘obscured.’ In times of religious oppression, knowledge that was counter-doctrinal had to be kept hidden or ‘occult,’ and because the church felt threatened by this, they redefined anything ‘occult’ as evil, and the prejudice survived.”

#26 Simona Panova

“Have a look around, my pretty, we are surrounded by Death in all forms – just the two of us are still alive.”

#27 J.Adam Snyder

“The process of dying is falling asleep. The process of death is waking up.”

#28 Frederick Lenz

”There is this school of thought that says the usage of all mystical and occult powers is bad. I find that thought is usually propounded by people who don’t have any powers. It’s kind of a sour grapes attitude.”

#29 Ginn Hale

“Petty fortune telling was the field of the wishful. Witches dealt in blood and bones.”

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#30 Frederick Lenz

”It is harder to develop your occult or psychic body when you are dead because all planes meet in the physical.”

#31 Dacha Avelin

“Witchcraft is the magic of the Earth itself. It is the essence that can bind life together.”

#32 Jaggi Vasudev

“Mysticism is like pure science; it has no use. Mysticism is just the human longing to know… Occult is not science. Occult is just technology.”

#33 Gerald Gardner

”Witchcraft is, and was, not… for everyone. Unless you have an attraction to the occult, a sense of wonder, a feeling that you can slip for a few minutes out of the world into the world of faery, it is of no use to you.”

#34 Dacha Avelin

“An experienced witch does not rely on karma. She relies on magickal justice.”

#35 Heinz R. Pagels

”I like to browse in occult bookshops if for no other reason than to refresh my commitment to science.”

#36 Umberto Eco

”Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.”

#37 Dacha Avelin

“A witch is wise. She has earned her wisdom. She has learned to love her shadows and has grown more beautiful because of it. She has proven she can stand comfortably within her powers.”

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#38 Virchand Gandhi

”The occult powers may be possessed by soul, but if they are not used in the right way it is a loss rather than a gain.”

#39 Dacha Avelin

“When you start to notice the mystical, the mystical will start to notice you.”

#40 Albert Pike

”The Secret of the Occult Sciences is that of Nature itself, the Secret of the generation of the Angels and Worlds, that of the Omnipotence of God.”

#41 Glenn Danzig

” The occult – what do you mean, Jesus? That’s occult to me. It’s so far-fetched, it’s ridiculous.”

#42 Derek Hunter

“The nature of existence is chaotic, unpredictable, slippery in definition, and the important thing to do is to focus on love within this chaotic framework.”

#43 Ernest Holmes

”The road to freedom lies not through mysteries or occult performances, but through the intelligent use of natural forces and laws.”

#44 Dacha Avelin

“A Witch is a person who has honestly explored their light and has evolved to celebrate their darkness.”

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#45 David Copperfield

”Demonic figures and occult themes have disappeared from modern magic.”

#46 Dez Del Rio

“When you stop chasing your dreams, your dreams start chasing you.”

#47 Michael W. Ford

“Black Magick is the process of self-transformation through an antinomian initiatory structure, Black meaning the hidden wisdom, power of darkness, dreams and staging the reality you wish and Magick being the process to ascend, become immortal in spirit.”

#48 Michael Bassey Johnson

“Don’t call anyone a devil, because within you, you can experience hell and the devil, and the devil is nothing, but you!”

#49 Joris-Karl Huysmans

“Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God…It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin.”

#50 Aleister Crowley

“Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.”

#51 Nikolas Schreck

“…What you’re calling evil, is part of human nature.” 

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References

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Aleister-Crowley
https://www.learnreligions.com/aleister-crowley-thelemic-prophet-95903