The basic concept behind all magical practice is a belief in a correspondence between the Universe and Man, that is, between Macrocosm and Microcosm. The Western Mind grounded in materialism finds such thinking totally unscientific and can get no further than a belief in the existence of ghosts. -161
The Adepts of Ritual Magic, both white and black, seek an expansion of consciousness, in what they call the 'astral light' of the planetary spheres. The purpose of their magical rites is to channel the cosmic forces or to awaken these powers from the depths of their own being. And as an aid to the fulfillment of this purpose a whole range of signs, symbols, colours, and shapes are used as part of the rituals in order to guide the magician to communication with those particular powers he seeks to serve.
The next great principle of Western Magic is the belief that the properly trained human will is, quite literally, capable of anything...
The motivating power, then, in all magical operations, is the trained will of the magician - lights, colours, circles, triangles, perfumes - are merely aids to concentrating the will of the magician into a blazing stream of pure energy. -193
The Nazi Party rightly scorned the Christian Church for their insistence that Christianity is superior to all other religions because it was entirely free from all Mythology. They correctly assessed that the strictured and unimaginative theology of contemporary Churchmen, dominated by a pathetic mixture of cartesian intellect and superstitious faith in dogma, was totally incapable of comprehending how the Christianity of the Grail and the Revelation is the very climax and fulfillment of all mythology. -261
The unique aspect of Rudolf Steiner's way to knowledge of spiritual realities rests in the fact that he revered the traditional initiation procedures hitherto practised by all Eastern and Western occult systems. -271
on Jesus...
The succession of miraculous deeds and events described in the Gospels indicating the ever-developing extent to which Christ had united himself with the elements of the Earth and penetrated the psyche and body of Jesus.
"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?...
The Spirit of the Universe had contracted in sacrificial deed into a total identification with the body of fallen man, experiencing the confines of human consciousness fettered to a mortal brain. The God of Love had entered the utter isolation of three-dimensional consciousness to conquer death and reanimate the dying earth existence, in order to lead mankind back to a full citizenship in the Macrocosm and the fulfillment of a cosmic destiny.
Christ came to lead the ego-consciousness of the Jews, and thereafter of all mankind, beyond the limited and prejudiced loyalties of family, tribe, and race.
-Trevor Ravenscroft
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