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
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.
flower iron break
A chain of iron is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.
men knows
Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.
lions succeed
Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.
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.
men magic divinity
Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith...
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.
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.
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.
relation known
One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.
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.
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.