Who knows some "prayers" are actually theurgy?

[DetlefK]

5. Science is an offshot of magic.

Science as we know it came to be by a string of historical coincidences:
* In the late Middle-Ages, the spanish philosopher and mystic Ramon Llull made the greek concept of laws of nature popular again in Europe.
* The occult Hermeticism contributed the concept of exploring the world through systematic experimentation.
* And mathematicians like Newton, Pascal and Mersenne contributed the concept of formulating these laws of nature as mathematical equations.

And once you had all of these combined, the Age of the Renaissance ended and the Age of Enlightenment began.