“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