Gerald Gardner
Wiccan Author
"The witches are firm believers in reincarnation, and they say that 'once a witch always a witch.'"
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Paganism
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Margot Adler
Author, Journalist
"The first time I called myself a 'Witch' was the most magical moment of my life."
Sappho
Poet
"There is no place for grief in a house which serves the Muse."
Virgil
Poet
"No day shall erase you from the memory of time"
Aleister Crowley
Occultist, Writer
"Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life."
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"Human beings are co-partners with deity in the project of being. This is the basis of all magic."
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"You see, no matter how important everything else is to magical success, belief is the most crucial."
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"Everything is full of sacramental substance, everything. Each thing and each function is ever ready to light up into a sacrament."
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"I deny nothing, but doubt everything."
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"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these."
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"In Goddess religion death is not feared, but is understood to be a part of life, followed by birth and renewal."
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"Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety."
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"Fame is nothing but an empty name."
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"[There are, in us] possibilities that take our breath away, and show a world wider than either physics or philistine ethics can imagine. Here is a world in which all is well, in spite of certain forms of death, death of hope, death of strength, death of responsibility, of fear and wrong, death of everything that paganism, naturalism and legalism pin their trust on."
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"So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God; the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth."
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