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.
ParacelsusBut is not He who created it for the sake of the sick body more than the remedy? And is not He who cures the soul, which is more than the body, greater?
ParacelsusAll numbers are multiples of one, all sciences converge to a common point, all wisdom comes out of one center, and the number of wisdom is one.
Paracelsus