Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.
Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith.
To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.
It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted.
When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intellegence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.
One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.