Ameen Rihani Quotes

I'm a storyteller, and I have really good material to work with: I've been studying magic and the occult since about 1983.

The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.

Masonry is identical with the Ancient Mysteries

It's amazing how everything fits together in the world of the Illuminati if you are prepared to dig deep enough.

In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them.

I've seen the odd tarot reader and had my palm read in various countries and explained to me in many strains of broken English. Did I believe a word? To be honest, I didn't understand much, but I loved watching the presentation.

I am perhaps a late follower of Zoroaster and I believe that the foundation of life is built upon the struggle between the two opposing forces of Good and Evil.

The residue of religion in my work appears as a modified transcendentalism, and the positivist scientific side of my thought appears as concreteness and realism. The effort to reconcile the two is at the core of all my poetry.

Although Alchemy has now fallen into contempt, and is even considered a thing of the past, the physicain should not be influenced by such judgements.

I love mysticism - it's such fun.

Those who consider the Devil to be a partisan of Evil and angels to be warriors for Good accept the demagogy of the angels. Things are clearly more complicated.

I believe you can make forces of good and evil work for you, to get what you want.

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

There is no possible source of evil except good.

I don't think good and evil are polarized.

Mystical groups such as the Theosophical Society and the Rosicrucians turned tarot into an American fad during the early 1900s. Many American tarot practitioners use a set of cards known as the Waite-Smith deck, created in 1909 by A.E. Waite, a British member of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and the artist Pamela Colman Smith.

Scientific views end in awe and mystery, lost at the edge in uncertainty, but they appear to be so deep and so impressive that the theory that it is all arranged as a stage for God to watch man's struggle for good and evil seems inadequate.

Alchemy is a kind of philosophy: a kind of thinking that leads to a way of understanding.

Body and spirit are twins: God only knows which is which.

I started studying mythology, just on my own. Joseph Campbell, mysticism.

The Masonic aspect of Hollywood is so bizarre.

The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity.

If our wondrous kindness is evidence for God, is our capacity for great evil proof of the Devil?

Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can enlist on the side of good by prospering, making money and using our wealth to help others.

G is Grace, the Flaming Star is the Torch of Reason. Those who possess this knowledge are indeed Illuminati.