Gertie McGillicudy

“Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!”
― Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual

“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.”
― Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual

“In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed—in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.”
― Éliphas Lévi, Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual