Attention Quote by Richard Smoley

“One of the greatest assets of this present work is the meticulous attention paid to the subject of theurgy or "god working," which Leitch…

— Aaron Leitch

Magic, then, is not a method, but a language; it is part and parcel of that greater phenomenon, ritual, which is the language of…

— Susanne Katherina Langer

Magic is what happens when you have encountered the Divine. It is the life-altering experiences of connecting to the divinity that dwells within yourself…

— Phyllis Curott

The purpose of ritual is to change the mind of the human being. It's a sacred drama in which you are the audience as…

— Margot Adler

Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant…

— Bronislaw Malinowski

“Magic is that paganistic reversal of the process of religion, in which man, instead of letting himself be used by God for the divine…

— Geerhardus Vos

What you call magic is nothing more than an act of the imagination fired by the senses, then given shape by the power of…

— Michael Scott

There is a single main definition of the object of all magical Ritual. It is the uniting of the Microcosm with the Macrocosm. The…

— Aleister Crowley

Magic is a faculty of wonderful virtue, full of most high mysteries, containing the most profound contemplation of most secret things, together with the…

— Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa

I like to say magic is the world's second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition,…

— Criss Angel

Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and…

— Albert Pike

The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is the hostility…

— William Bolitho