The Inner Mysteries Quotes

“The most important magical tool that you have is your mind. Without the skills and knowledge of their use, your other magical tools are useless props.”
― Janet Farrar, The Inner Mysteries: Progressive Witchcraft and Connection to the Divine

“The inclusion of the Oak King/Holly King cycle into Wicca is really quite modern, with Robert Grave’s The White Goddess and Sir James Frazer’s The Golden Bough as the major sources.”
― Janet Farrar, The Inner Mysteries: Progressive Witchcraft and Connection to the Divine

“One big problem for modern Pagans is that the old gods and goddesses have been asleep. Devoid of worship and recognition for so long, they have become psychically dormant…We see it is as the role of modern Witches and Pagans to “wake the gods” just as Tim Robbins’ character “Erik” did in the film Erik the Viking.”
― Janet Farrar, The Inner Mysteries: Progressive Witchcraft and Connection to the Divine

“Not training or gaining knowledge breaks the Wiccan Rede itself, the very core ethic of Wicca.”
― Janet Farrar, The Inner Mysteries: Progressive Witchcraft and Connection to the Divine

“The two most important doctrines that have kept Wicca from degenerating and losing cohesion as a spiritual path is its system of ethical principles—the Wiccan Rede—and its system of training. If these systems didn’t exist within Wicca, someone would end up creating them—regardless of whether tradition or lineage continues as a prevalent factor.”
― Janet Farrar, The Inner Mysteries: Progressive Witchcraft and Connection to the Divine

“One of the most obvious things that stick out in this short history is the importance and influence of books in the growth of modern Wicca; Gardner would never have got the new movement off the ground without them.”
― Janet Farrar, The Inner Mysteries: Progressive Witchcraft and Connection to the Divine