“The Book of the Law declared in no uncertain terms that the “Scribe” (Crowley, or the spiritual entity known to the world as Aleister Crowley) was the prophet chosen by the spiritual forces of human evolution to deliver the good news of the New Aeon to the world. For many of us, the word “prophet” carries with it a great deal of sectarian baggage. Let me assure you that when I refer to Aleister Crowley as a prophet, I am suggesting only that (like shamans of all times and cultures) he was a person who, under certain conditions, was able to observe and then give voice to the great unseen forces and events that shape the spiritual development of humanity.” - Understanding Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot. Lon Milo Duquette
“I once read in a commentary about western esotericism that doing these practices turns the adherent into something similar to the prophets of the old and new testaments. I didn’t know what that meant at the time. I thought a prophet was someone capable of seeing the future. However, that’s not exactly what a prophet is. A prophet isn’t someone who sees the future....it’s someone who understands the past. When you are able to read the scrolls, as the four living creatures refer to it in the book of Revelation, you see what Ezekiel saw. You see what St. John saw. In the book of Daniel, Nebuchadnezzar has a dream. When he awakens he can’t remember this dream.....he only remembers that it terrified him. So he calls his magicians before him.....men he had rounded up in early childhood and sent to be trained by the “Chaldeans” - the priests of south-eastern Mesopotamia. The magi. The Bible calls Daniel the “master of magicians.””
- Damien Echols