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.

Could we but rightly comprehend the mind of man, nothing would be impossible to us upon the earth.

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.

However, anyone to whom this happens should not leave his room upon awakening, should speak to no-one, but remain alone and sober until everything comes back to him, and he recalls the dream.

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

All drugs are poisons the benefit depends on the dosage.

That which lives on reason lives against the spirit.