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
cute infinite creation
When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.
order awkward attention
Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.
law analogies movement
Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.
judging speak
Judge not; speak hardly at all; love and act.
giving rich hell
To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.
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.
names evil intellectual
What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.
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.
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.