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

— Dion Fortune The Sea Priestess (1938)

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

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)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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