Eliphas Levi Quotes

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• When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.
• Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.
• 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…
• To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.
• Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith...
• Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.
• Judge not; speak hardly at all; love and act.
• One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.
• Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.
• A chain of iron is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.
• 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…
• 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…
• It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted.
• Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.
• All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.
• There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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,…

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