“The true nature of the gods is that of magical images shaped out of the astral plane by mankind's thought, and influenced by the mind.”
Dion Fortune, The Mystical Qabalah
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“The power of thought,—the magic of the mind!”
Canto I, stanza 8.
The Corsair (1814)

Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 268

as quoted by Ilya Prigogine in his Autobiography http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/1977/prigogine-autobio.html given at the occasion of Prigogine's 1977 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

1840s, Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840), The Hero as Man of Letters

“Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.”
Cited by Peter Nicholls (1979) The Encyclopedia of science fiction: an illustrated A to Z. p. 376

Source: The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984

“The only antidote to the magic of images is the magic of words.”
Break, Blow, Burn (2005)