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

— Dion Fortune

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

The Machinery of the Mind (1922)

The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.

The Mystical Qabalah (1935)

Symbols are to the mind what tools are to the hand—an extended application of its powers.

The Mystical Qabalah (1935)

All gods are one God, and all goddesses are one Goddess, and there is one Initiator.

The Sea Priestess (1938)

There is something very intimate and personal about one's books. They reveal so much of one's private soul.

The Sea Priestess (1938)

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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