Magick

From The Religion by Willocks:

She said, "Do you believe in magic?"

He took no offense at her shunning his tribute and replaced the viol on its stand. He did so with the precision of a man whose intimacy with the physical was natural and deep.

"I have no truck with incantations, sorcery, and the like, if that's your meaning," he said. "Such false arts stand on fancy and superstition- and as Plato said to Dionysus, 'Philosophy should never be prostitute to profane and illiterate men.' No. Magick takes her name from Ancient Persia, where a 'magician' was a wise man who expounded on the divine mechanics inherent in Nature. Men such as Zarathustra- or Hermes Trismegistus. The Egyptians considered Nature herself a magician. In that sense- there's nothing I believe in more heartily."