“The Codex is our moral code. No one is higher than the law. Those who break the law must be broken.”
― Damian Wampler, quote from Sevara: Dawn of Hope
“Now at first you’ll feel a little dizzy, then a little numb, then you won’t feel anything at all.”
― Damian Wampler, quote from Sevara: Dawn of Hope
“Orphanage 127, Sector D, sub-district 28, Zone 7, the city of Plexus, Continental Center, Earth, 3,914 years after the End of the Age of the Uzgen.”
― Damian Wampler, quote from Sevara: Dawn of Hope
“The fuel for a great fire is all round them, ready to consume the evil of Plexus; we just have to wait for the spark.”
― Damian Wampler, quote from Sevara: Dawn of Hope
“It is time for you to choose, the rope or the spike!”
― Damian Wampler, quote from Sevara: Dawn of Hope
“No,” Abigail said in a low voice, “but I can save one.”
― Damian Wampler, quote from Sevara: Dawn of Hope
“All those rhythms, all those songs, all those wonderful glorious magnificent voices inside her began to sing.”
― Damian Wampler, quote from Sevara: Dawn of Hope
“They all memorized a simple phrase, “Be helpful, be useful, be scarce.”
― Damian Wampler, quote from Sevara: Dawn of Hope
“Later, she didn’t remember how she escaped from his grasp, or how she ended up back in her barracks, but at that moment she realized that something had started that night that changed everything.”
― Damian Wampler, quote from Sevara: Dawn of Hope
“In all the commotion, no one noticed that Minubar was missing or that Tanner, cynical and thrill- seeking, quick to crack and joke or start a fight, who had befriended Sevara at an early age and protected her until the last, was dead.”
― Damian Wampler, quote from Sevara: Dawn of Hope
“And you got to blow up that awful wedding,”
― Damian Wampler, quote from Sevara: Dawn of Hope
“Your greatest fulfillment in life will come when you discover your unique gifts and abilities and use them to edify others and glorify the LORD." (pg. 146)”
― Neil T. Anderson, quote from Victory Over the Darkness
“I want for people not to worry so much. Life ain't going to be perfect, but tings will work out. People come to visit and I always tell them not to worry. If you got something to eat, don't worry, be grateful. Just look at all those books. Those books aren't about food. They're to do with worrying about food.”
― quote from Life is So Good
“A person who has had the misfortune to fall victim to the spell of a philosophical system (and the spells of sorcerers are mere trifles in comparison to the disastrous effect of the spell of a philosophical system!) can no longer see the world, or people, or historic events, as they are; he sees everything only through the distorting prism of the system by which he is possessed. Thus, a Marxist of today is incapable of seeing anything else in the history of mankind other than the “class struggle”.
What I am saying concerning mysticism, gnosis, magic and philosophy would be considered by him only as a ruse on the part of the bourgeois class, with the aim of “screening with a mystical and idealistic haze” the reality of the exploitation of the proletariat by the bourgeoisie…although I have not inherited anything from my parents and I have not experienced a single day without having to earn my living by means of work recognised as “legitimate” by Marxists!
Another contemporary example of possession by a system is Freudianism. A man possessed by this system will see in everything that I have written only the expression of “suppressed libido”, which seeks and finds release in this manner. It would therefore be the lack of sexual fulfillment which has driven me to occupy myself with the Tarot and to write about it!
Is there any need for further examples? Is it still necessary to cite the Hegelians with their distortion of the history of humanity, the Scholastic “realists” of the Middle Ages with the Inquisition, the rationalists of the eighteenth century who were blinded by the light of their own autonomous reasoning?
Yes, autonomous philosophical systems separated from the living body of tradition are parasitic structures, which seize the thought, feeling and finally the will of human beings. In fact, they play a role comparable to the psycho-pathological complexes of neurosis or other psychic maladies of obsession. Their physical analogy is cancer.”
― quote from Meditations on the Tarot: A Journey into Christian Hermeticism
“He didn't ask for any of this, did he?" "None of them did, come to that." Logan responded. "But that's what life does to you. It gives you a whole lot of stuff you don't ask for and expects you to deal with it. No complaining, no excuses.”
― Terry Brooks, quote from The Gypsy Morph
“A lady of resources makes her own luck.”
― Shelley Adina, quote from Lady of Devices
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