All Eliphas Levi Quotes
- When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation. 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. Analogies
- 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… Advances
- To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage. Know Magic
- Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith... Achieved
- Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive. Attention
- Judge not; speak hardly at all; love and act. Act
- One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known. Define
- Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good. Funny
- A chain of iron is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers. Break
- 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… Blessing
- 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… Absurd
- It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted. Attempted
- Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet. Act
- All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient. All
- There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing. Controlling
- 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… All
- 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… 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… All
- 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,… Accomplishing
- There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to… Adapt
- Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right… Aging
- Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and… All
- That great Kabbilistical association known in Europe under the name of Masonry appeared suddenly in the world when the revolt against the Church had just… Appeared
- Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal. All beauty alters and all life melts away; in short, everything passes with marvelous rapidity;… All