"Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there."

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Source : Eliphas Levi (1968). “Transcendental Magic”, p.353, Weiser Books

Eliphas Levi

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“Every writer is working from his own individual world view, and that can become as characteristic as a fingerprint.”

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