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
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...
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.
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.