That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity.

To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.

Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith.

Order is never observed; it is disorder which attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

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.