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I planned a mystical order that should buy or hire the castle, and keep it as a place where its members could retire for a while for contemplation, and where we might establish mysteries like those of Eleusis or Samothrace. ... I had an unshakeable conviction that invisible gates would open, as they opened for Blake, as they opened for Swedenborg, as they opened for Boehme, and that this philosophy would find its manuals of devotion in all ..
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The real difference between the Marxian and the romantic Outsider is that one would like to bring heaven down to earth, the other dreams of raising earth up to heaven. To the Outsider, the Marxian seems hopelessly short-sighted in his requirements for a heaven on earth; his notions seem to be based on a total failure to understand human psychology. (Aldous Huxley's Brave New World and Zamyatin's We are typical expressions of Outsider critic..
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Never, until these last few days, had I understood the meaning of existence. I was like the others...I said with them: The ocean is green, that white speck up there is a seagull, but I didn't feel that it existed...And then suddenly existence had unveiled itself.
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Professor A. H. Maslow, for example, has conducted a series of researches into extremely healthy people that have led him to conclude that health and optimism are far more positive principles in human psychology than Freud would ever have admitted. Man is a slave to the delusion that he is a passive creature, a creature of circumstance; this is because he makes the mistake of identifying himself with his limited everyday consciousness, and ..
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And this is a point whose importance goes far beyond this discussion of the occult. We are considering the most important law of human nature. Man is at his best when he has a strong sense of purpose. When my consciousness is doing its proper work--grasping some of the immense complexity of the universe, and calculating how to increase its control and power--its energy flows into the subconscious, and arouses all the forces of the subconsci..
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Mystics of many countries and many centuries have spoken of this memory...' And he defines the real danger of this 'lunar knowledge': 'It is perhaps well that so few believe in it, for if many did many would go out of parliaments and universities and libraries and run into the wilderness to so waste the body, and to so hush the unquiet mind that, still living, they might pass the doors the dead pass daily; for who among the wise would troub..
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Sentencing Packer, Judge Melville Gerry gave vent to his feelings along unexpectedly political lines: "There were only seven Democrats in Hinsdale County, and you ate five of them, you depraved Republican son-of-a-bitch!"
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The Outsider may be an artist, but the artist is not necessarily an Outsider.
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What can characterize the Outsider is a sense of strangeness, or unreality.
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The Outsider has his proper place in the Order of Society, as the impractical dreamer.
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The vitality of the ordinary members of society is dependent it's Outsiders.
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the Outsider's problem is the problem of denial of self-expression.
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Pessimism is a leaden weight around the feet. Defeat is always self-chosen.
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It seems that thought itself has a power for which it has never been given credit.
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Crowley wanted to be a magician because he wanted power -- power over other people.
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The "passion for incredulity" can produce as much self-deception as the uncritical will to believe.
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