There is a magic that is the work of the Devil and which aims at man’s downfall through artifices of which it is not licit to speak. But there is a magic that is divine, where God’s knowledge is made manifest through the knowledge of man, and it serves to transform nature, and one of its ends is to prolong man’s very life.
 Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose (1980). copy citation

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Author Umberto Eco
Source The Name of the Rose
Topic magic God
Date 1980
Language English
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Note Translated by William Weaver
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