Act V, scene 2.
The Spanish Friar (1681)
Source: Culture and Value (1980), p. 91e
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 524.
“The starlight of heaven above us shall quiver
As our souls flow in one down eternity’s river.”
The Welcome.
Act III, scene i.
Manfred (1817)
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 144.
“Heaven… is the eternal kingdom Christ will inaugurate at His second coming.”
Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 27
“Anybody can observe the Sabbath, but making it holy surely takes the rest of the week.”
Source: In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 433.
“I see magic as a vantage point from which one can look down on the rest of consciousness.”
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: The traditional definition of magic – and I think this comes from Crowley who laid down a lot of the ground rules – he defined magic as bringing about change in accordance with the will. I’m not sure about that. It’s certainly part of it, but to bring about change in the universe in accordance with your will seems to me to be misunderstanding the relationship between the individual and the universe. In my relationship with the universe, I do tend to see myself as very much the Junior Partner. I don’t want to impose my will on the universe, I’d rather the universe imposed its will on me. I would rather that what I wanted was more in tune with what the universe wanted. So my definition of magic is a bit less invasive and intrusive. … It’s more exploratory with me. I see magic as a vantage point from which one can look down on the rest of consciousness. It’s a point outside normal consciousness from which you can look at normal consciousness, it’s a point outside beliefs from which you can look at beliefs. All beliefs are reality tunnels, to use Anton Wilson’s phrase. There is the Communist reality tunnel, the Feminist reality tunnel, all of which seem to be the whole of reality when you are in the middle of them. The whole universe is based on Marxist theory if you’re an intent Marxist. Magic is having a plan of all the tunnels, and seeing the overall condition in which they all work. Being aware of different possibilities.
