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
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.
men knows
Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.
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.
lions succeed
Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.
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.
idleness
Fear is nothing but idleness of the will...
ignorance doubt
Doubt is really a groping ignorance.
enemy slave lord
The Placer is an enemy who must necessarily become our lord or our slave; one doesn't enjoy if it's not defeated.
flower iron break
A chain of iron is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.
beauty passing fugitive
Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal.