I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
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we can make our minds so still like water. That beings gather about us to see their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer perhaps even with a fiercer life because of silence.
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I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call magic, and what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know what they are, in the power of creating magic illusions in the visions of truth in the depths of the minds when the eyes are closed.
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I carry the sun in a golden cup, The moon in a silver bag.
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