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“We ought to be very cautious in the prosecution of magic and heresy. The attempt to put down these two crimes may be extremely perilous to liberty, and may be the origin of a number of petty acts of tyranny if the legislator be not on his guard; for as such an accusation does not bear directly on the overt acts of a citizen, but refers to the idea we entertain of his character.”

“The 'civil rights' revolutionary groups are a case in point. Their goal is not equality but power. The background of Negro culture is African and magic, and the purposes of magic are control and power. . . Voodoo or magic was the religion and life of American Negroes. Voodoo songs underlie jazz, and old voodoo, with its power goal, has been merely replaced with revolutionary voodoo, a modernized power drive.”

Has Beens Purpose Religion Song Culture Goal Cases Rights Magic Groups Jazz Backgrounds Civil Rights Revolutionary Replaced Voodoo

Author:R.J. Rushdoony

“Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work to shine not only in daylight but (by whatever illusionist magic) from within.”

Want Science Religion Language Behinds Silence Magic Poet Shining Painter Silence Is Daylight Illusionists

Book:Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays

Source: Figures of thought: speculations on the meaning of poetry & other essays

“Both magic and religion are based strictly on mythological tradition, and they also both exist in the atmosphere of the miraculous, in a constant revelation of their wonder-working power. They both are surrounded by taboos and observances which mark off their acts from those of the profane world.”

World Religion Wonder Magic Tradition Mark Constant Atmosphere Revelations Miraculous Taboo Profane Observance

Book:Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays

Source: Magic, Science and Religion and Other Essays

“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”

Source: An essay on man: an introduction to a philosophy of human culture

“To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to admit that your own resources were so weak you had to resort to magic and miracle cures for healing. To acquire faith was to mobilize the powers of an overly active imagination.”

Spiritual Religion Turns Women Imagination Healing Magic Resources Weak Miracle Active Cures Acquire Yearning Wounded Resorts

Book:Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey Into the Sacred

Source: Words on Fire: One Woman's Journey Into the Sacred

“One man's 'magic' is another man's engineering. 'Supernatural' is a null word.”

Men Religion Magic Usa One Man Engineering Engineers Another Man Null Engineering Inspirational

Book:Time Enough for Love

Source: Time Enough for Love

“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.”

Men Religion Strong Mistake Magic Society Weak Medicine Medical Glitter Scientism Weak Man Medical Science Medical Doctor

Author:Thomas Szasz

“You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough.”