Religion realizes philosophy by adapting it to the…

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

— Eliphas Levi

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous…

— Eliphas Levi

“When Christianity proscribed the public exercise of the ancient worships, the partisans of the latter were compelled to meet in secret for the celebration…

— Éliphas Lévi

“However, as a guarantee of its renewed youth, the symbolical phoenix never reappeared before the eyes of the world without having consumed solemnly the…

— Éliphas Lévi

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

— Eliphas Levi

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

— Eliphas Levi

“Like all magical mysteries, the secrets of the Great Work have a triple meaning: they are religious, philosophical and natural. Philosophical gold in religion…

— Éliphas Lévi

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

— Eliphas Levi

Everything is possible to him who wills only what is true! Rest in Nature, study, know, then dare; dare to will, dare to act…

— Eliphas Levi

What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual…

— Eliphas Levi

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

— Eliphas Levi

“Man's greatest wisdom is to choose his obsession well.”

— Éliphas Lévi

There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how…

— Eliphas Levi

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

— Eliphas Levi

The Placer is an enemy who must necessarily become our lord or our slave; one doesn't enjoy if it's not defeated.

— Eliphas Levi