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Confessions of an English Opium Eater 21
measuring the extent of their supernatural existence. Magic deceives
them and lights for them alluring and deceptive glimpses of disillusions;
while all the time, we, Poets and Philosophers, have regenerated
our souls by successive work and by an ardent contemplation; by the
assiduous exercise of will and by the permanent nobility of intention,
we have created for ourselves a garden of sublime beauty. Certain of
the word which says that faith transports mountains, we have accomplished
the only miracle God ever allowed us to achieve!”