«Tú no esperes que Dios venga a ti
y te diga: "Yo soy".
Un Dios que muestra su ira
no tiene sentido.
Que sepas que Dios penetra con su soplo en ti
desde el origen.
Y cuando tu corazón llamea sin traición alguna
es que está allí, Él».
— R. M. Rilke
“An idle man will never become a magician. Magic is an exercise every hour and every moment. He who performs great works must be absolute master of himself; he must know how to repress temptations of pleasure, appetite and sleep; he must be insensitive to success and indignity. Your life must be that of a will guided by a single thought and served by the whole Nature, which will submit to the mind in its own organs and, through sympathy, all the corresponding universal forces. »
— Eliphas Levi: Transcendental Magic: His Doctrine and Ritual
Art: Eliphas Levi, Solomon's Clavicles, c. 1860