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
men knows
Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.
men magic divinity
Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith...
dream men fire
Hermeticism is the science of nature hidden in the hieroglyphics and symbols of the ancient world. It is the search for the principle of life, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings.
powerful mean men
There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.
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.
beauty passing fugitive
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal.
flower iron break
A chain of iron is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.
ignorance doubt
Doubt is really a groping ignorance.
hate heart animal
Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.
lions succeed
Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.
beauty beautiful reflection
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.
idleness
Fear is nothing but idleness of the will...
jesus father people
Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' -- People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.
mean passion perfection
Renounce to the desire of possessing worldly things: this is the first step in the path of perfection; by mean of this absolute untie is how the passions can be fought.