On no other stage are the scenes shifted with a swiftness so like magic as on the great stage of history when once the hour strikes.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

There are times when reality becomes too complex for oral communication. But legend gives it a form by which it pervades the whole world.

Nothing from nothing ever yet was born.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

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

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

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

In the society of men, the truth resides now less in what things are than in what they are not. Our social realities are so ugly if seen in the light of exiled truth, and beauty is almost no longer possible if it is not a lie.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.