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“When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours?”
― Franz Kafka

“Why must the plastic form make up the foundation of image consciousness?”
― Edmund Husserl, Phantasy, Image Consciousness and Memory, 1898-1925

“Where the psychological reduction of religious or esoteric doctrines shifts direction and becomes the reductive psychologization of the same doctrines is in the reinterpretation of psychological reductive theories of esoteric discourse by esotericists. The paramount example of this reinterpretative process is Crowley’s essay â€�The Initiated Interpretation of Ceremonial Magicâ€� (1903), wherein he poses the question as to ‘the cause of my illusion of seeing a spirit in the triangle of Art,â€� and answers himself: ‘That cause lies in your brain.â€� In this way, we see Crowley begin with a psychologically reduced interpretation of the magical practice of evocation, and then reinterpret this as something to be applied to magical practice—acting as a practicing magician rather than as a psychologist. For, although the magical practice is reduced to psychological terms, Crowley still advocates for the performance of the ritual itself, rather than utilizing the psychological reduction as a means to advocate for conventional psychotherapy in ritual’s stead.”
― Christopher A. Plaisance, Correspondences: Journal for the Study of Esotericism