She hath several ways to break up house, but her best is without a disease. This is her mystical walk, an exit only to return. - Thomas Vaughan

Magic is nothing but the wisdom of the Creator revealed and planted in the creature. It is a name — as Agrippa saith — "not distasteful to the very Gospel itself."

They dwell altogether in the face, their endeavors are meer titillations, & their acquaintance with Nature is not at the heart.

The Holy Spirit, moving upon the chaos — which action some divines compare to the incubation of a hen upon her eggs, did together with his heat communicate other manifold influences to the matter.