Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly.

Be not another, if you can be yourself.

He who knows nothing loves nothing. He who can do nothing understands nothing. He who understands nothing is worthless. But he who understands also loves, notices, sees. The more knowledge is inherent in a thing, the greater the love.

What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

Men who are devoid of the power of spiritual perception are unable to recognize anything that cannot be seen externally.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.