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Image: The Magician - Charles Joseph Traviès de Villers (1835)

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The magician should live in isolation and be approached with difficulty. He needs attachments and friendships, but he must select them carefully and preserve them at all costs. He must concentrate his energies within himself and choose his points of contact; but insofar as it is rude and inaccessible at first, it will later be popular and sought after when it has magnetized its chain and determined its position in a current of ideas and light.

You should have another profession apart from that of magician, because magic is not a trade. A poor life and laboriosa is so favorable for practical initiation that the greatest masters have sought it, even when the wealth of the world was at their disposal.

To dedicate oneself to ceremonial magic, one must be free from disturbing worries, one must be able to obtain all the instruments of science, and if necessary, know how to make them oneself. It must also ensure to have an inaccessible laboratory, where there is no fear of ever being surprised or disturbed.

Due to the little time I currently have to draw more often, I decided to upload this compilation while I bring new drawings (some of them are relatively old but I'll probably re-draw them when I have free time)