“Sorcery works against Nature, magic works with it.”
Source: The Phoenix and the Mirror (1969), Chapter 11
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“Magical powers worked sometimes; material powers worked all the time.”
Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 12 (p. 218)
“I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably.”
Peter J. Carroll (1953) British occultist
Source: The Apophenion (2008), p. 7
Context: I regard physics as that subset of magic that works fairly reliably. I regard magick, in the traditional sense, as a kind of physics that we strive to understand and render more reliable. So it all comes down to the same thing, a quest to understand and manipulate the world with a self-consistent and coherent theory.
Walter Russell (1871–1963) American philosopher
The Man who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe
“Love works magic.
It is the final purpose
Of the world story,
The Amen of the universe.”
Novalis book Blüthenstaub
Die Liebe wirkt magisch.
Sie ist der Endzweck
der Weltgeschichte,
das Amen des Universums.
Variant translations:
Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe.
As translated by W. Hastie in Thoughts on Religion, Pt. 1, "Hymns and Thoughts on Religion" (1888), edited by W. Hastie
Love is the final purpose of world history — the Amen of the universe.
Love works magically...
Love causes magic...
Blüthenstaub (1798), Unsequenced
Jamie Zawinski (1968) American programmer
" resignation and postmortem http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html" (essay)
John Holloway book Change the World Without Taking Power
Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)