❝The trust we share among ourselves and how we use that trust is really what defines our community. I've said that how we treat the Other may be the defining characteristic of a great human civilization. I stand by that.❞

— NeoWayland, Characters

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“Winter Solstice 2018 Coincides With Both A Full Moon And Meteor Shower”

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“No more sacred civilizations, Monsieur. They are too delicate and too costly. Besides priests are no more trustworthy than anyone else.”

— Eglantin L'Audace, from “The Order of the Twelfth Apostle,” Gnosis № 41, Fall 1996

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“What if the Placebo Effect Isn’t a Trick?”

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“The cauldron in fact represented a great step forward in civilization. Before men were able to make metal cooking pots, which would withstand fire, they had to be content with thick earthenware pots, which were heated by the laborious process of dropping very hot stones into them. The metal cauldron, over which the woman as head of the household presided, gave men better cooked food, more plentiful hot water to cleanse themselves, and herbal medicines which could be decocted by boiling or infused in boiling water. Hence the cauldron became an instrument of magic, and especially of women’s magic.”

— Doreen Valiente, “Cauldron”, An ABC of Witchcraft: Past and Present

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