Witchcraft for Tomorrow Quotes

“Well, I suppose one can really regard this sort of thing as a kind of back-handed compliment…”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“The basic hallmark of the Pickingill covens was that they were led by a priestess, who could and did conduct the rites.”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“The date [the beginning of the Age of Aquarius] thus arrived at is A.D. 2010.”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“If you travel far enough east, you will find yourself back on your own doorstep.”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“The circle of the coven is between the worlds; and what takes place between the worlds is no concern of either world.”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“Witchcraft does not need to apologize for involving sex magic. It is other religions which need to apologize for the miseries of puritanical repression they have inflicted on humanity.”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“Men’s hands wrote all the holy books and sacred scriptures; only the book of nature was written by divinity.”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“It is notable that the enemies of human liberty, be they Fascist or Communist, are always very concerned with moral policing, as well as with political repression. With what tender care do they guard their subjects from ‘decadence’, by censorship of all kinds and by the earnest promotion of a puritanical moral code! In sexual matters, that is; when it comes to tyrannical cruelty, oppression and mass murder, these moral puritans become very easy-going indeed.”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“Moreover, if a person insists in this life upon living at the level of a beast, why should they not be reborn at that level? After all, it was their choice.”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“Satanism, however, by its very nature, can only be an offshoot of Christianity; because before you can worship Satan you have to believe in him. Before you can celebrate a Black Mass, the essential act of which is to defile the sacred host, you have to believe in the real Mass. And if you believe in the real Mass, you are a Christian!”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“By an evolution well-known to students of comparative religion, the god of the old faith became the devil of the new.”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow

“Many people, I know, will question the idea of self-initiation, as given in this book. To them I will address one simple question: who initiated the first witch?”
― Doreen Valiente, Witchcraft for Tomorrow