Tao Te Ching

“Magic is a powerful faculty, full of mystery and comprising a profound knowledge of the most secret thing, their nature, power, quality, substance and effects.. It is a philosophical science; it is physics, mathematics, and theology.”

— Agrippa 1486 – 1535 CE via Kurt Seligmann
(Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa von Nettesheim)
Historian of the occult and early, important influence on science
from Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic