The Middle Pillar Quotes

“Magical work involves change and creation. And the subject of the magician’s work is the self. The magician is the focus of his or her own alchemical processes. By adapting one’s personal vision to reflect the macrocosm, we can change ourselves to better reflect those divine ideas. We may alter our body, appearance, the chemical composition of our blood, and the configuration of our nervous system. We may tame the feral beasts that dwell within our organic structure. By changing ourselves to resonate with the divine, we may transmute every portion of ourselves and become as purified vessels for the eternal spirit.”
― Israel Regardie, The Middle Pillar: The Balance Between Mind and Magic

“Unbalanced power is the ebbing away of life. Unbalanced mercy is but weakness and the fading out of the will. Unbalanced severity is cruelty and the barrenness of mind.”7”
― Israel Regardie, The Middle Pillar: The Balance Between Mind and Magic

“Analytical psychology and magic comprise in my estimation two halves or aspects of a single technical system.”
― Israel Regardie, The Middle Pillar: The Balance Between Mind and Magic

“The search for, and quite often assumed discovery of some paternal-like God or a testy senior after the fashion of Jehovah, frequently has its origins in an adolescent rejection of the father.”
― Israel Regardie, The Middle Pillar: The Balance Between Mind and Magic