“Religion realizes philosophy by adapting it to the weaknesses of the vulgar....” — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
“Those who abdicate the empire of reason and permit their wills to wander in pursuit of reflections in the Astral Light, are subject to alternations of mania and melancholy which have originated all the marvels of demoniacal possession, though it… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good. — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
