Eliphas Levi Quotes

• If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil.

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  Angel, Play, Wish

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• Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.

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  Success, Strong, Procrastination

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• There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.

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  Demon, Fear Nothing, Fear Not

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• 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!

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  Study, Silent, Dare

  Eliphas Levi (2013). “The Ritual of Transcendental Magic”, p.191, Jazzybee Verlag

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• 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.

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  Giving, Hell, Rich

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• When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.

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  Cute, Infinite, Creation

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• 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.

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  Dream, Men, Fire

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• 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.

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  Names, Evil, Intellectual

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• 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.

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  Men, Creation Of Man, Perfect

  Eliphas Levi (2015). “Transcendental Magic”, p.176, Eliphas Levi

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• Fear is nothing but idleness of the will.

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  Idleness

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• To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.

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  Practice, Magic, Sage

  Eliphas Levi (1996). “The Paradoxes of the Highest Science”, p.45, Health Research Books

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• 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.

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  Blessing, Suffering, Lions

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• 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.

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  Powerful, Mean, Men

  Eliphas Levi (2015). “Transcendental Magic”, p.41, Eliphas Levi

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• Order is never observed; it is disorder which attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

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  Order, Awkward, Attention

  "The Great Secret, Or, Occultism Unveiled".

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• Judge not; speak hardly at all; love and act.

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  Judging, Speak

  Eliphas Levi (2016). “The Key of the Mysteries”, p.35, Eliphas Levi

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• Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.

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  Men, Knows

  Eliphas Levi (1968). “Transcendental Magic”, p.207, Weiser Books

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• All miracles are promised to faith, and what is faith except the audacity of will which does not hesitate in the darkness, but advances towards the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?

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  Light, Miracle, Darkness

  Eliphas Levi (2013). “The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic”, p.17, Jazzybee Verlag

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• A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

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  Teacher, Teaching, Able

  Eliphas Levi (2000). “The Great Secret, Or, Occultism Unveiled”, p.174, Weiser Books

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• Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.

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  Law, Analogies, Movement

  Eliphas Levi (1968). “Transcendental Magic”, p.425, Weiser Books

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• 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.

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  Children, Blood, Vampire

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• Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith.

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  Men, Magic, Unions

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• Weakness ever sympathizes with vice, because vice is a weakness which assumes the mask of strength. Madness holds reason in horror, and on all subjects it delights in the exaggerations of falsehood. The cause of all bewitchments, the poison of all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

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  Weakness, Vices, Poison

  Eliphas Levi (1968). “Transcendental Magic”, p.353, Weiser Books

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• 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

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  Doe, Deeds, Speech

  Eliphas Levi (2013). “The Ritual of Transcendental Magic”, p.16, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.

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  Lions, Succeed

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• An iron chain is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.

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  Flower, Iron, Break

  "Transcendental Magic".

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