Imagination's Real (God In My Brain) -- For D.D. at 65

Magic, being the science of universalequilibrium, and having the truth, realityand reason of being for its absoluteprinciple, accounts for all the antimoniesand reconciles all actualities which are inconflict with one another by the onegenerating principle of every synthesis –that harmony results from the analogy of opposites.  

For the initiate of this science religion is not in doubt because it exists, and we do not deny what is.  Being is being. The apparent opposition of religion andreason is the strength of both, establishing each in its distinct domain and fructifying the negative side of each by the positive side of the other : as we have just said, it is the attainment of agreement by the correspondenceof things that are contrary.  The cause of allreligious errors and confusions is that inignorance of this great law, it has beensought to make religion a philosophy andphilosophy in its turn a religion.

Dave Davies: Imagination's Real (link) 

Sculptures:  Dan Flavin

Text:  Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant), The Historyof Magic

Magic (Eliphas Levi)

     "Magic has been confounded too long with the jugglery of mountebanks, the hallucinations of disordered minds and the crimes of certain unusual malefactors.  There are otherwise many who would promptly explain Magic as the art of producing effects in the absence of causes; and on the strength of such a definition it will be said by ordinary people  -- with the good sense which characterises the ordinary, in the midst of much injustice -- that Magic is an absurdity.  But it can have no analogy in fact with the descriptions of those who know nothing of the subject; furthermore, it is not to be represented as this or that by any person whomsoever; it is that which it is, drawing from itself only, even as mathematics do, for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and her laws."


     -- Eliphas Levi, The History of Magic (Including A Clear And Precise Exposition Of Its Procedure, Its Rites And Its Mysteries), 1860 (translated by A.E. Waite, 1913)