That Which We Say And Do, If

Man's Real Genius And Knowledge Remains Preserved In Books

Our Adversaries, Numerous And Formidable, Will Say, And Will Have The Right To Say, That Our Principe CrÇateur Is Identical With The Principe GÇnÇrateur Of The Indians And Egyptians, And May Fitly Be Symbolized As It Was Symbolized Anciently, By The Linage...to Accept This In Lieu Of A Personal God Is To Abandon Christianity And Worship Of Jehovah And Return To Wallow In The Styles Of Paganism.

Magic Is That Which It Is; It Is By Itself, Like The Mathematics; For It Is The Exact And Absolute Science Of Nature And Its Laws . Magic Is The Science Of The Ancient Magi: And The Christian Religion, Which Has Imposed Silence On The Lying Oracles, And Put An End To The Prestiges Of The False Gods , Itself Reveres Those Magi Who Came From The East, Guided By A Star , To Adore The Saviour Of The World In His Cradle.

We Do Not See And Estimate The Relative Importance Of Objects So Easily And Clearly From The Level Or The Waving Land As From The Elevation Of A Lone Peak, Towering Above The Plain; For Each Looks Through His Own Mist.

Man Is Encompassed With A Dome Of Incomprehensible Wonders. In Him And About Him Is That Which Should Fill His Life With Majesty And Sacredness. Something Of Sublimity And Sanctity Has Thus Flashed Down From Heaven Into The Heart Of Every One That Lives.