Where Magic Is Bought By Maskelyne
It is astonishing the number of things a magician must know before he can hope to succeed fully. Nothing is too out-of-the-way for him to mark, learn, and inwardly digest; nothing too obscure for him to delve into and find out the whys and the wherefores; and nothing in the art too big for him to tackle.
Starting In Magic With Maskelyne
Magic is not merely a matter of telling people which card they chose, or showing them how to pour lemonade, tea, coffee, beer, and water out of one teapot. It is the whole show that counts…
Edwin Sachs On Magic
“It is as pleasant to be cheated as to cheat,” is a maxim that must have been framed expressly for conjuring.
Edwin Sachs’ Advice To Magicians
Having at length brought the beginner to that point where he will first have to shift for himself in real earnest, I wish to leave him in a position to do credit to my tuition, and, with this object, impart a few hints for his guidance.
Houdini, The Versatile Artist
Harry Houdini, "The World's Handcuff King and amazing Prison Breaker," a title universally and unanimously bestowed upon him, has had a career as adventurous and romantic as the most imaginative writer could possibly conjure.
Mahdi Arrives In Guadalajara
We like controlled chaos, not knowing what will happen, we give way to improvisation because that gives freshness and spontaneity, we really like to play with each other.
The Lost Photos Of René Lavand
In 1972, two legendary Argentian artists came together to create incredible art together.
The Luckiest Man In Babylon
How could he help such a superior youth with his spendthrift ideas and bejeweled hands?
The Clay Tablets From Babylon
He had a real message for fellow sufferers, a message so important that after five thousand years it has risen out of the ruins of Babylon, just as true and just as vital as the day it was buried.
The Camel Trader Of Babylon
If a man has in himself the soul of a slave will he not become one no matter what his birth? If a man has within him the soul of a free man, will he not become respected and honored in his own city in spite of his misfortune?
The Walls Of Babylon
Behind the impregnable walls of insurance, savings accounts and dependable investments, we can guard ourselves against unexpected tragedies.
The Gold Lender Of Babylon
The safest loans are to those whose possessions are of more value than the one they desire. They own lands, or jewels, or camels, or other things which could be sold to repay the loan.
The Five Laws Of Gold
A rich reward awaiting those men of purpose who determine to secure their just share.
Meet The Goddess Of Good Luck
How good luck can be enticed by accepting opportunity.
Increase Your Income
Cultivate thy own powers, to study and become wiser, to become more skillful, to so act as to respect thyself.
Guarantee Future Income
For a lean purse to a man no longer able to earn or to a family without its head is a sore tragedy.
Turn Your Home Into An Investment
Each payment will reduce thy indebtedness to the money lender, a few years will satisfy his loan. Then will thy heart be glad because thou wilt own in thy own right a valuable property.
Protecting Your Money
Guard thy treasure from loss by investing only where thy principal is safe, where it may be reclaimed if desirable.
Multiply Your Money
The gold we may retain from our earnings is but the start. The earnings it will make shall build our fortunes.
The Advancing Man Gets Into The Right Business
Doing what you want to do is life; and there is no real satisfaction in living if we are compelled to be forever doing something which we do not like to do, and can never do what we want to do. And it is certain that you can do what you want to do; the desire to do it is proof that you have within you the power which can do it.