“Occult Medicine is essentially sympathetic. Reciprocal affection, or at least real goodwill, must exist between doctor and patient. Syrups and juleps have very little inherent virtue; they are what they become through the mutual opinion of operator and subject; hence… — Éliphas Lévi Copy Share Image
All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient. — Eliphas Levi 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
