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. — Eliphas Levi Copy Share Image
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… — 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
