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
relation known
One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.
dare
It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted.
flower simple maturity
Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right to the end, one may intoxicate one's spirit with flowers, with beauty and with smiles.
practice magic sage
To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.
cute infinite creation
When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.
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.
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.
angel play devil
If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil.
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.
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.
teacher able great-education
A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.
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
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!