Mystical Influence Quotes

Magic is not inherently anything. It is what you sell it as.

Wizard's Third Rule Passion rules reason, For better or for worse.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

Amazing, isn't it, that our prayers...can move the very heart of God who created the universe?

Angel and Muse approach from without; the Angel sheds light and the Muse gives form (Hesiod learned of them). Gold leaf or chiton-folds: the poet finds his models in his laurel coppice. But the Duende, on the other hand, must come to life in the nethermost recesses of the blood.

Monetary policy suffers from the unfortunate absence of any occult effect. It has long been clear that economic management...would be greatly facilitated if resort could occasionally be had to witchcraft.

Temples have their images; and we see what influence they have always had over a great part of mankind. But, in truth, the ideas and images in men's minds are the invisible powers that constantly govern them; and to these they all pay universally a ready submission.

The sending of a letter constitutes a magical grasp upon the future.

The power of the visible is the invisible.

Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.

Magic should get under people's skins.

The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving.

Music is so elevated that it is beyond the reach of intellect and there flows from it an influence which is all-potent, and which noone can explain.

Spirit is like the wind, in that we can't see it but can see its effects, which are profound.

Books are not seldom talismans and spells.