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I believe in the practice and philosophy of what we have agreed to call / magic, in what I must call the evocation of spirits, though I do not know / what they are, in the power of creating magical illusions, in the visions / of truth in the depths of the mind when the eyes are closed; and I believe / in three doctrines, which have, as I think, been handed down from early / times, and been the foundations of nearly all magical practices. These / doctrines are --