“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.”
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.”
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.
“Love works magic.
It is the final purpose
Of the world story,
The Amen of the universe.”
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
" resignation and postmortem http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html" (essay)
Change the World Without Taking Power (2002)