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It is fit that we who endeavour to rise to an elevation so / sublime, should study first to leave behind carnal affections, / the frailty of the senses, the passions that belong to matter; / secondly, to learn by what means we may ascend to the climax of / pure intellect, united with the powers above, without which never / can we gain the lore of secret things, nor the magic that effects / true wonders. -- Tritemius "On Secret Things and Secret Spirits. "
It wanted still many minutes of midnight, and Glyndon was once more in the apartment of the mystic. He had rigidly observed the fast ordained to him; and in the rapt and intense reveries into which his excited fancy had plunged him, he was not only insensible to the wants of the flesh, -- he felt above them.