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1 " Now vampirism is contagious; the person who is vampirised, being depleted of vitality, is a psychic vacuum, himself absorbing form anyone he comes across in order to refill his depleted resources of vitality. "
― Dion Fortune , Psychic Self-Defense
2 " A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and if one of the team cannot handle the forces, everybody is going to suffer. A ritual lodge is no place for the well-meaning ineffectual. "
3 " One cannot blame an organization that picks up an occasional black sheep, one only takes exception if it retains an accumulation of them. "
4 " ...the neurotic is very often psychic, and the psychic is very often neurotic. "
5 " It is one of the strictest conditions of initiation that occult knowledge may never be sold or used for gain. "
6 " ...a trained occultist, especially if of high grade, has an exceedingly magnetic personality, and this is apt to prove disturbing to those who are unaccustomed to high- tension psychic forces. For whereas the person who is ripe for development will unfold the higher consciousness rapidly in the atmosphere of a high-grade initiate, the person who is not ready may find these influences profoundly disturbing. "
7 " The body is the vehicle of the mind. "
8 " We all know that, when caught off our guard, there comes a dark temptation from the depths of our lower selves, something atavistic stirs, and we think thoughts, or even do deeds, of which we would never have believed ourselves capable. "
9 " I well remember it being said to me by an occultist of great experience that two things are necessary for safety in occultism, right motives and right associates. "
10 " Occultism has no Pope. "
11 " When it comes to the question of the mummy's curse, I am afraid that my sympathies are entirely with the mummy. "
12 " The commonest form of psychic attack is that which proceeds from the ignorant or malignant mind of our fellow human beings. We say ignorant as well as malignant, for all attacks are not deliberately motived; the injury may be asaccidental as that inflicted by a skidding car. This must always be borne in mind, and we should not impute malice or wickedness as a matter of course when we feel we are being victimised. Our persecutor may himself be a victim. We should not accuse a man of malice if we had linked hands with him and he had stepped on a live rail. Nevertheless, we should receive at his hands a severe shock. So it may be with many an occult attack. The person from whom it emanates may not have originated it. Therefore we should never respond to attack by attack, thus bringing ourselves down to the moral level of our attackers, but rely upon more humane methods, which are, in reality, equally effectual and far less dangerous to handle. "
