Eliphas Levi
Eliphas Levi
Éliphas Lévi, born Alphonse Louis Constant, was a French occult author and ceremonial magician...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionMagician
Date of Birth8 February 1810
CountryFrance
demon fear-nothing fear-not
There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.
blessing suffering lions
Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear YOU. Say to suffering, 'I will that you shall become a pleasure,' and it will prove to be such-- and even more than a pleasure, it will be a blessing.
poison delight causes
Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.
study silent dare
Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act and be silent!
deeds speech doe
EVERY intention which does not assert itself by deeds is a vain intention, and the speech which expresses it is idle speech. It is action which proves life and establishes will
angel play devil
If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil.
success strong people
Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.
teacher able great-education
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
children blood vampire
When one creates phantoms for oneself, one puts vampires into the world, and one must nourish these children of a voluntary nightmare with one's blood, one's life, one's intellegence, and one's reason, without ever satisfying them.
men creation-of-man perfect
The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.