A Mortal Lives Not Through That Breath

The Beginning Of Wisdom Is The Beginning Of Supernatural Power.

Truly It Has Been Said That There Is Nothing New Under The Sun, For Knowledge Is Revealed And Is Submerged Again, Even As A Nation Rises And Falls. Here Is A System, Tested Throughout The Ages, But Lost Again And Again By Ignorance Or Prejudice, In The Same Way That Great Nations Have Risen And Fallen And Been Lost To History Beneath The Desert Sands And In The Ocean Depths.

Determined Will Is The Beginning Of All Magical Operations. It Is Because Men Do Not Perfectly Imagine And Believe The Result, That The (occult) Arts Are So Uncertain, While They Might Be Perfectly Certain.

Thoughts Give Birth To A Creative Force That Is Neither Elemental Nor Sidereal. Thoughts Create A New Heaven, A New Firmament, A New Source Of Energy, From Which New Arts Flow. When A Man Undertakes To Create Something, He Establishes A New Heaven.

Man Is Ill Because He Is Never Still.