“It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.”   Since antiquity, frightful whispers and old wives’ tales of the horrid miscreations created by wizards in their grand spires have served to plague the good name of magic the w