The Secret of the Temple Quotes

“It’s unfashionable these days to notice that a great many human beings have had, and continue to have, experiences that they describe as interactions with such powers by way of the teachings and practices just mentioned, and so scholars in a baker’s dozen of disciplines and more have busied themselves coming up with other things that religion must “really” be about.”
― John Michael Greer, The Secret of the Temple: Earth Energies, Sacred Geometry, and the Lost Keys of Freemasonry

“What tends to be forgotten, amid all the cheerleading for today’s technology, is that people in ancient times might have lacked our current theoretical understanding of nature, but they were perfectly capable of noticing what worked and what didn’t, drawing rational conclusions on the basis of experience, and trying out new techniques to expand their ability to work with natural phenomena—even when their theories about the nature of those phenomena strike us as primitive or absurd.”
― John Michael Greer, The Secret of the Temple: Earth Energies, Sacred Geometry, and the Lost Keys of Freemasonry