God is alive. Magic is afoot.

Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear.

The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature—and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection.

Egypt was the mother of magicians.

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

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

To blow and to swallow at the same time is not easy; I cannot at the same time be here and also there.

I shall curse you with book and bell and candle.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

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.

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

The fact is certain because it is impossible.