All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

Nothing is so easy as to deceive one’s self; for what we wish, that we readily believe.

Once something becomes discernible, or understandable, we no longer need to repeat it. We can destroy it.

Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

The fear of the Lord is true wisdom, and he who hath it not can in no way penetrate the true secrets of magic.

There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching toward him and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

One thing alone not even God can do: to make undone whatever has been done.

Man is always a wizard to man, and the social world is at first magical.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.