Things started to go wrong at the abbey. Crowley struggled with his drug addiction. ibid.
The secret doctrine is the accumulated Wisdom of all Ages ... The mysterious power of occult symbolism, that the facts which have actually occupied countless generations of initiated seers and prophets to marshal, to set down and explain, in the bewildering series of evolutionary progress. Helena P Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine
The initiated of the race into the Mystery of the Ages. Alice Bailey
Occultists in general believe that they can affect things far away. David A Shugarts, author Secrets of the Widow’s Son
The occult means secret or hidden. And its early masters were regarded as true magicians. But they were also the first scientists. Secrets of the Occult, 2007
The trail of the occult begins in Egypt five thousand years ago. ibid.
The Russian-born Madame Blavatsky arrived in New York at the start of Spiritualism’s population. She soon became the self-proclaimed occulter of ancient occult secrets. ibid.
Blavatsky wrote essentially two gigantic collections: Isis Unveiled and the Secret Doctrine. James A Wasserman, author The Mystery Traditions
Today’s world confronts a strange and growing paradox that could well mark a pivotal point in human history … We are witnessing far and away the greatest occult explosion of all time. Dave Hunt, The Sorcerer’s New Apprentice p9
Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley: An Autohagiography
Do what thou wilt, the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent license. Aleister Crowley, Magick in Theory and Practice
For the highest spiritual working one must accordingly choose that victim which attains the greatest and purest force. A male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory and suitable system. ibid.
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. Michael W Ford, Adamu – Luciferian Tantra and Sex Magick
There are two Paths to the Innermost: the Way of the Mystic, which is the way of devotion and meditation, a solitary and subjective path; and the way of the occultist, which is the way of the intellect, of concentration, and of trained will; upon this path the co-operation of fellow workers is required, firstly for the exchange of knowledge, and secondly because ritual magic plays an important part in this work, and for this the assistance of several is needed in most of the greater operations. The mystic derives his knowledge through the direct communion of his higher self with the Higher Powers; to him the wisdom of the occultist is foolishness, for his mind does not work in that way; but, on the other hand, to a more intellectual and extrovert type, the method of the mystic is impossible until long training has enabled him to transcend the planes of form. We must therefore recognize these two distinct types among those who seek the Way of Initiation, and remember that there is a path for each. Dion Fortune, Esoteric Orders and Their Work and the Training and Work of the Initiate
And across these mean Dwellings of Black Step Lane, where as a Boy I dwell’d for a while, the Shaddowe of my last Church will fall: what the Mobb has torn down I will build again in Splendour. And thus will I compleet the Figure: Spittle-Fields, Wapping and Lime-house have made the Triangle; Bloomsbury and St Mary Woolnoth have next created the major Pentacle-starre; and, with Greenwich, all these will form the Sextuple abode of Baal-Berith or the Lord of the Covenant. Then, with the church of Little St Hugh, the Septilateral Figure will rise about Black Step Lane and, in this Pattern, every Straight line is enrich’d with a point at Infinity and every Plane with a line at Infinity. Let him that has Understanding count the Number: the seven Churches are built in conjunction with the seven Planets in the lower Orbs of Heaven, the seven Circles of the Heavens, the seven Starres in Ursa Minor and the seven Starres in the Pleiades. Little St Hugh was flung in the Pitte with the seven Marks upon his Hands, Feet, Sides and Breast which thus exhibit the seven Demons – Beydelus, Metucgayn, Adulec, Demeymes, Gadix, Uquizuz and Sol. I have built an everlasting Order, which I may run through laughing: no one can catch me now. Peter Ackroyd, Hawksmoor
Occultism is the metaphysics of dunces. Theodor W Adorno, Theses Against Occultism
Hubbard moved in and became Parson’s assistant ... Hubbard ran off with Jack’s girlfriend. Scientology: Going Clear: The Prison of Belief ***** opening scene, 2015
‘Key members of the Nazi Party in particular Himmler & Hitler were not just a little into the occult, they were absolutely obsessed by it.’ Secrets of the Nazi Occult, BBC 2016
There were two secret societies at the core of these esoteric beliefs … The Thule Society … the Vril. ibid.
Tonight we seek out those who do the devil’s work. Roger Cook, The Cook Report: Devil’s Work, ITV 1989
It’s going through an explosion at the present time. And has been over the last thirty years. ibid. Revered Kevin Logan
‘What we are witnessing in the wake of the public enactment of these alchemical psychodramas, whose spiritual consequences for mankind are far more momentous than most have thus far guessed, is a process of global occult initiation.’ Truthstream Media: Does Society Realise It Is Being Initiated? Michael A Hoffman, 2019
Ideas that used to be considered occult are now not just being normalised to the general public but proselytized. ibid.
Witchcraft has gone totally mainstream … 2018 was declared the Year of the Witch. ibid.
By his own testimony, as recorded in the pages of Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler was a fully formed volkisch German nationalist from an early age … Hitler is personified as the architect of the occult aspects of Nazi party doctrine, but was he really the sole driving force behind this bizarre phenomenon? Hitler’s Last Secrets s1e4: Hitler & the Occult
In every major city cults devoted to spiritualism, astrology, magic and the occult flourished among the disciples of Life Reform. ibid.
‘Racism was one of the fundamental values of the Volkisch movement.’ ibid. Bob Curruthers
The outlandish ideas of Helena Patrovna Blavatsky centred on the idea that there was lost Aryan races which she claimed had perished with the destruction of the lost city of Atlantis. ibid.
A more noble and heroic age … The myth of the Aryan race was readily accepted and was by 1905 so familiar it had become a self-evident truth. ibid.
When Adolf Hitler seized power the Occult immediately penetrated his inner circle. Himmler was a mass murderer convinced he was an ancient king reincarnated. In Search of History s5e9: Hitler and the Occult, H2 2013
The Thule Society became the hothouse breeding ground for Nazism. ibid.