Eliphas Lévi – Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual (1854)

 “God is the infinite mirror in which the universe beholds itself, the eternal thought that thinks all things into being. He is not a person, but the Personification of all that is, was, and ever shall be — the supreme intelligence that weaves the tapestry of time and space. The magician knows God not through prayer, but through the sacred act of creation, for to align the will with the divine is to become a co-creator of the cosmos. In the pentagram, in the wand, in the cup, in the sword, His presence is invoked, for every symbol is a syllable of His unutterable name.

To seek God is to dare the mysteries, to pierce the veil of Isis, and to stand in the radiant presence of the eternal light that consumes all shadows.”