“There is no one comparable to Paracelsus—physician, astrologer, anthroposophist, theologian, mystic, and magus... He wanted to know the true nature of things through investigation and not through the study of dusty volumes.”

from History of Magic (1948)

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“Perhaps the most important figure among the occultists of that age... [Agrippa] knows the language of the angels and their names as well as those of the star spirits, those of the elements, and those of the four corners of the world.”

from History of Magic (1948)

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“It was during the 4th century that Christianity overcame the pagan cult and magical rites... The persecutions of which they were the cause rank among the major misfortunes that have visited the West.”

from History of Magic (1948)

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“Zoroastrianism lived on in more or less altered form among Gnostics and Neo-Platonists—Mithraicism and Manicheism were offspring of Zoroastrian religion. Even the Mohammedans, whose persecution cause the way of the Zoroastrian creed, accepted some of its features... Again and again, the dualism of old brought forth the fruit of a vanished civilization, comparable to the ancient grain found in the tombs of the Pharaohs: planted in the earth they arise from the sleep of ages, and yield their long-delayed harvest”

from History of Magic (1948)

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“The champion of science turned seer... the moving spirit of all the secret societies of that time... His Church still has some several hundred thousand adherents.”

from History of Magic (1948)

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