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"Magic is the traditional science of the secrets of Nature which has been transmitted to us from the Magi."

— Eliphas Levi

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"Father, forgive them," said Jesus, "for they know not what they do." – People of good sense, whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.

Four letters make the Name that rules all names.

Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1856)

The conventional Hexagram … is the sign of the interpenetration of worlds.

"Magic is an instrument of divine goodness or demoniac pride, but it is the annihilation of earthly joys and the pleasures of mortal life."

"Judge not; speak hardly at all; love and act."

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

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To doubt everything or to believe everything are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

Henri Poincaré Science and Hypothesis (1901)

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