144 Quotes About Ritual

W czasach pradziadka, zdaje się, polerowanie odbywało się w nieco przypadkowy sposób, zdarzało się, że przez kilka miesięcy waza stała niewypolerowana. Z pokolenia na pokolenie procedura stawała się jednak coraz bardziej wyszukana. Było prawie pewne, że obowiązek polerowania wazy przejmie po ojcu najstarszy brat.

Why, if all the creatures in the world gathered together to make a single gnat and put a soul into it, they would not succeed!' No more than man can make a gnat can demons, according to another tradition, make anything smaller than a grain of barley. But those who favored the thaumaturgic interpretation of the Book of Yetsirah, and believed that a man or golem could be created with its help,...." Idea of the Golem p. 171

Much of the outward business of kingship came naturally.

She has become part of the tribe by behaving like its members.

Religion is best when it points beyond itself, like Isaiah or John the Baptist. It is worst when it gives you just enough of the forms to inoculate you against the substance, when it substitutes rituals for reality, the container for the contents, the wineskins for the ecstatic wine.

Eu toco em ti a música que tu queres ouvir, nostálgico ritual profético de celebração.

... the first few minutes of a person's death are the most vitally important minutes of opportunity for a necromancer, [so] Cabal added, "Look, I have to go. Without the necessary chemicals, we'll lose whatever wits are still floating around his cooling brain. The only more immediate alternative that I can think of is a Tantric ritual involving necrophiliac sodomy and, frankly, I don't think my back is up to it. So, if you will excuse me?

Occult Medicine is essentially sympathetic. Reciprocal affection, or at least real goodwill, must exist between doctor and patient. Syrups and juleps have very little inherent virtue; they are what they become through the mutual opinion of operator and subject; hence homoeopathic medicine dispenses with them and no serious inconvenience follows.

Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life.