“In some sense, every magician is a weaver, merely one who works with invisible strands of the hidden light.”

— Katharine Kerr

Notes from the "The Pseudo-Iamblichos Scroll" in The Spirit Stone (2007)

Context: In some sense, every magician is a weaver, merely one who works with invisible strands of the hidden light. With it we weave our various forms, just as a weaver produces cloth, and then stitch them into the images we desire, just as a tailor sews cloth into a tunic or robe. If we be journeymen in our craft, forces will come to inhabit our forms, just as a person will come to buy the tunic and place it over his body. But if we have plumbed the secret recesses of our art, if we are masters of our craft, then we can both weave the forms and place our own bodies within them.

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