A Discovery of Witches: A Novel (All Souls Trilogy, Book 1)
In times like these, we are all in the process of transformation, and so is the world around us. The Great Work, the magnum opus, is the work we are all engaged in, whether we know it or not. The Great Work is the reassembling of the tiny shards of light into which the universe was shattered at the Creation. Every story we tell, every poem we write... See more
Paul Kingsnorth • The Great Work: Alchemy and the Power of Words – Paul Kingsnorth
Desire is the closest thing there is to magic. Nothing else changes the world so powerfully, so quickly. Nothing else builds empires or families or great works of art. Nothing else rearranges my perception so fully, making some things salient and others basically invisible. Even in spiritual lineages dedicated to ending desire entirely, the startin... See more
River Kenna • Varieties of Desirous Experience
as inscrutable as ever. ‘You’ll find it eventually,’ said Thomas. ‘Look –’ With a gesture inconceivable in any other room, and from any other man, he lifted James’s finger and described a pale curve in the centre of the circle. ‘That is what they call Barnard’s Loop,’ he said. James took his finger quickly from the paper, and paused before he spoke
... See moreSarah Perry • Enlightenment
Magic was nothing more than desire made real,