I find at times the imprecise and rather loose application of Celestial magic is its best quality. Yes, it may be true that there is no uniformity or standard spells. But that is its greatest strength. Whatever the magic needs to accomplish can be done as long as a person is willing to try. Such potential in my view is what moves white men to write laws to have it banned. But you cannot ban magic. You cannot limit magic. Just as you cannot force laws upon nature. It is part of every living creature in this world. It is even crueler to ban our magic, the magic of the newly freed, who are now just spreading their wings to explore all the wonders of the world.

 

—​FROM THE PRIVATE JOURNALS OF RAIMOND CECIL DUVAL
​FEBRUARY 19, 1871