Know that the philosopher has power over the stars, and not the stars over him.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

We do not know it because we are fooling away our time with outward and perishing things, and are asleep in regard to that which is real within ourself.

From time immemorial artistic insights have been revealed to artists in their sleep and in dreams, so that at all times they ardently desired them.

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.

Then God sends us such a messenger who appears to us in spirit, warns us, consoles us, teaches us, and brings us His good tidings.

Since nothing is so secret or hidden that it cannot be revealed, everything depends on the discovery of those things that manifest the hidden.