Beyond your eye there are a million unnamed gods lying in wait – find them. Wear their masks and learn their truths. Rely not solely on the past but forge before you innumerable paths on which the cultus might tread.

It’s always good to wonder; but you shouldn’t get lost. It’s wiser to experience things than to think about them. At least that way you don’t get weaker and you don’t get tangled up in words.

A witch is, actually, a successful (in the sense of surviving) deviant. You have a cultural, ideological, social, what-not pattern which is, for that society in question, normal (and, importantly, this is understood as a synonym for natural). Most people survive because they conform to these patterns, because they behave normally. […] But then suddenly you get a deviant which survives, and since it does not draw its support from the normal pattern, […] that deviant is understood as drawing its support from “unknown,” “supernatural” sources. […] If we cannot survive without our order, how can she [the witch] survive in solitude? Hers must be indeed a very powerful order to exist so independently, without all the inter cooperation and individual compromise which we have to go through to survive. And if it is so powerful, then it could destroy us. We must try to destroy it first.

Meditation, prayer, offerings, devotions, observations, and other spiritual practices form the backbone of a Pagan practice that builds a Pagan worldview.
It continues with reading, thinking, and talking about your Paganism on a regular basis. Paganism is a rational religion (or religions, if you prefer) but its rationality is not the same as the rationality of atheism or of Christianity. Develop a deep understanding of what you believe and do and why you believe and do it.
In the past few months, I’ve come across a lot of Pagans who take offense if you challenge their beliefs. They see it as not as an attempt to refine their theology and philosophy but as an attack on their identity. So be it – it’s not my job to drag them kicking and screaming out of Plato’s cave.

Stay open and quiet, that is all. What you seek is so near you that there is no place for a way.

Vodou means “spirit.” It’s a Fon [a people of Benin, formerly Dahomey] word. It’s like, in English you say “spirit”; in Spanish you say “espirito,” and in French you say “esprit.” But it’s all the same; this is what we are. Our bodies are made of pieces of dust, just made up of dust. Inside the body is a spirit. That’s the mystery. An ant is a mystery; the chicken is a mystery; plants are mysteries. All is spirit. Until we understand that and raise our consciousness to see that we are not only made of flesh, we remain prisoners. We must be conscious that we are spirit. That way we will know what possibilities we really have, what power we really have as people.

Ultima says a man’s destiny must unfold itself like a flower, with only the sun and the earth and water making it blossom, and no one else meddling in it.

It is your actions that makes you respectable, not your position.

The nature of the witch is eternally bound to the other, we realise that no archetypal self identifies the witch; the witch transgresses the limits that define the self, making this transgression the liturgy by which he or she gains access to the world of spirits. At the same time, by becoming other the witch transcends the very concept of other, becoming something completely different, permeating all the worlds apprehended by men. By overcoming the duality between self and other we become the eternal one. This one is the center of our being, our spirit and the axis mundi.

My teacher used to say, ‘Stay in beginner’s mind. Never leave beginner’s mind,’ because in beginner’s mind, the possibilities are infinite. They’re open. Anything can happen. You’re open to learn anything you need to learn. If your view of something needs to change, you’re open for it to change. No matter how deeply you’ve seen something, no matter how much you think you know something, stay in beginner’s mind. Don’t get rigid. No matter how great a revelation you may have had, no matter how great an opening in the core and depth of your being, if you stay in innocence, in the mind that’s very light, that never takes its ideas as truth, then there will be a much greater potential for your thoughts, as well as your communications with others, to be naturally inspired.