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
dare
It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted.
judging speak
Judge not; speak hardly at all; love and act.
success strong people
Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.
cute infinite creation
When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.
light miracle darkness
All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?
practice magic sage
To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.
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.
relation known
One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.
art lying patient
All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.
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.
gold matter spirit
In olden times gold was manufactured by science; nowadays science must be renewed by gold. We have fixed the volatile and we must now volatilize the fixed—in other words, we have materialized spirit, and we must now spiritualize matter.
men magic divinity
Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith...
christian europe names
That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just succeeded in dismembering Christian unity.
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.