“Dion fortune once said “the closer the source, the purer the stream.” Sumer is as close for us to get to the source from which magick came. This is where it begins to tie into the Bible. Magick originated in an event described twice, in two different ways, in the Bible. Or one in the Bible, and one in the book of Enoch. Twice a “fall” happens. Both times involving women and higher intelligences. I became obsessed with where magick came from. I began researching it and reading about it constantly. And I did magick with the intention that I know where this originated. During this time I regularly met with someone who belonged to a European order, and knew more about magick than anyone else I’d known. One night we were sitting at a bar in the east village and I asked him what his thoughts were on it. He said he’d once asked his teacher that exact question. In response his teacher just pointed up with one hand, and put his finger over his lips as if saying “ssshhhh” with the other.”
- Damien Echols