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To Be Rich Is To Give; To Give Nothing Is To Be Poor; To Live Is To Love; To Love Nothing Is To Be Dead; To Be Happy Is To Devote Oneself; To Exist Only For Oneself Is To Damn Oneself, And To Exile Oneself To Hell.

To Practice Magic Is To Be A Quack; To Know Magic Is To Be A Sage.

All Miracles Are Promised To Faith, And What Is Faith Except The Audacity Of Will Which Does Not Hesitate In The Darkness, But Advances Towards The Light In Spite Of All Ordeals, And Surmounting All Obstacles?

There Exists In Nature A Force Which Is Immeasurably More Powerful Than Steam, And By Means Of Which A Single Man, Who Knows How To Adapt And Direct It, Might Upset And Alter The Face Of The World.

Hermeticism Is The Science Of Nature Hidden In The Hieroglyphics And Symbols Of The Ancient World. It Is The Search For The Principle Of Life, Along With The Dream (for Those Who Have Not Yet Achieved It) Of Accomplishing The Great Work, That Is The Reproduction By Man Of The Divine, Natural Fire Which Creates And Recreates Beings.