“Our job is not to create a masterpiece but to give voice to that which only we can give voice to.”
“I think something is art when it is created with intention. Serious intention. Even crazy intention. And I think something is beautiful if it reveals something important about what it means to be alive.”
“There is no greater purpose in this world than the creation of life.”
“Art has been serving man’s notion of God since there have been hands to make it.”
“The whole creation shows the wonder of a Creator.”
“I can hear the nettlesome wails of these rowdy children arguing over whether some object in a crayon rendering is, in fact, the sun or the moon or otherwise simply a lopsided sky egg. I wonder briefly at the intention behind manifestation, but then resign myself to an understanding that all of this work is arbitrary. There will always be the indelible contradiction that introduces doubt, and this will serve to overwhelm the purpose. And so, no decisive answers can be had with respect to this rendering, and I cannot help but feel rather sad myself at this.”
“It can be said that the sun shines for us. That it and everything else were made by God for us.”
“The trees are only trees, sea levels are only sea levels. God made them and walked away and now they simply do what they do…”
“Creation is all magic. You experience oneness with or in Nature because the Creator, the Source, is the same. Or you dissolve in an art form like music only because you are experiencing divinity in it. Economic theory is a human invention. There is no divinity in it; it is a man-made utility. When you turn your attention from earning-a-living to living, the grandeur, the magic of Creation, draws you into its fold. In that moment, you are uniting with the Source. That’s why such moments are precious, memorable and blissful!”
“All creation is an act of madness, a subtle insanity unmasking ourselves in order to break mirrors, telepathic accidents in dissent of the known.”
“All probabilities have stacked up to this imminent form, and all causes have aligned according to this pathway and not another. I could otherwise have been another complex of particles, another material altogether, and perhaps also another form, for how much does the material influence the fingers that shape it? Does the material similarly shape the whims of its sculptor?”
“The special creation of Adam and Eve shows that, though we may be like animals in many respects in our physical bodies, nonetheless we are very different from animals. We are created “in God’s image,” more like God than any other creature, appointed to rule over the rest of creation.”
“En lugar de simplemente gobernar la creación, Dios también se relaciona con ella íntimamente, sin oprimirla ni militarizarla, sin aplastar la libertad humana”
“Antes de crear el mundo, Dios conocía todos los mundos lógicamente posibles que podía crear, poblados por todos los individuos lógicamente posibles que podía crear”
“The sky and the lands, the watery plains, the moon s gleaming face, the Titanic Sun and the stars are all strengthened by Spirit working within them, and by Mind, which is blended into all the vast universe and pervades every part of it, enlivening the whole mass.”
“The spirit of creation is the spirit of contradiction, the breakthrough of appearances toward an unknown reality.”
“He [Crowley] realized that humanity is being asked to pray to some sky deity to be forgiven for expressing the needs of the very bodies which this deity supposedly created for humanity. In short, creation is being punished for having the very qualities it was created to have.”