“There is no society or conversation to bet kept up in the world without good nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason, mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good Breeding.”
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Baltasar Gracian
“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.”
Gaian
a term which recognizes the Earth Goddess Gaia, as a living, breathing organism. Then everything else, is PART of it, rather than APART from it
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.”
Akasha
1) the omnipresent fifth occult element and omnipresent spiritual power that permeates the universe. It is the energy out of which the Elements formed and which embraces the other four earth, air, fire, and water; and from which they stem. This is the realm of pattern” or causality, from which the realm the normally thought of “five senses manifests. Some define it is the “other” of the “two worlds” that the witch or magician walks between.- the spiritual ether (or Aether)
Marcus Aurelius
“Vex not thy spirit at the course of things; they heed not thy vexation. How ludicrous and outlandish is astonishment at anything that may happen in life.”
The Pagan Rede
This is the basic tenet of witchcraft. “As ye harm none, do what thou will.” The rede prohibits Pagans from doing any living creature harm, or from violating ones free will. It’s origin is unknown. See also Witches Rede, The Law, The Law of The Cymry, etc.
Trilithon
A stone arch made from two upright slabs with one lying atop these. Trilithons are featured in Stonehenge as well as the circle visualization in The Standing Stones Book of Shadows.
Charles Caleb Colton
“Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away.”
Joseph Addison
“There is no society or conversation to be kept up in the world without good nature, or something which must bear its appearance and supply its place. For this reason, mankind have been forced to invent a kind of artificial humanity, which is what we express by the word Good Breeding.”
