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1810–1875 France
Eliphas Lévi (February 8, 1810 – May 31, 1875), born Alphonse Louis Constant, was a French occult author and magician. "Eliphas Lévi," the name under which he published his books, was his attempt to translate or transliterate his given names "Alphonse Louis" into Hebrew.
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"Father, forgive them," said Jesus, "for they know not what they do." – People of good sense, whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.
Four letters make the Name that rules all names.
Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1856)
The conventional Hexagram … is the sign of the interpenetration of worlds.
"Magic is the traditional science of the secrets of Nature which has been transmitted to us from the Magi."
"Magic is an instrument of divine goodness or demoniac pride, but it is the annihilation of earthly joys and the pleasures of mortal life."
"Judge not; speak hardly at all; love and act."
"The Magus must have also another avocation than that of magician. Magic is not a trade."
"There is a true and a false science, a Divine and an Infernal Magic – in other words, one which is delusive and tenebrous."
"To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage."
"The ceremonies being, as we have said, artificial methods for creating a habit of will, become unnecessary when the habit is confirmed."
"Necromancy, and Goetia, which is Evil Magic, do produce such shells and demons, apparitions of deceit."
"To live like an anchorite, without the superstitious ignorance which leads him to such a course of life, this is wisdom indeed, and power is the reward."
"Magic is the divinity of man conquered by science in union with faith; the true Magi are Men-Gods, in virtue of their intimate union with the divine principle."
"Magic, or rather magical power, comprehends two things, a science and a force: without the force the science is nothing, or rather it is a danger."
The conventional Hexagram presents in pictorial symbolism the root doctrine of the Hermetic Emerald Tablet: "That which is above is equal to that which is below." It is the sign of the interpenetration of worlds.
The History Of Magic (1860)
"He looks on the wicked as invalids whom one must pity and cure; the world, with its errors and vices, is to him God's hospital, and he wishes to serve in it."
"He whom we behold perishing poor and abandoned is Cornelius Agrippa, less of a magician than any, though the vulgar persist in regarding him as a more potent sorcerer than all."
"In the “Ritual” it will be our task to estimate the sequence of truly magical ceremonies and evocations which constitute the great work of vocation under the name of the Exercises Of St. Ignatius."
"In Black Magic, the Devil means the employment of the Grand Magical Agent for a wicked purpose by a perverted Will."
The Great Work is the attainment of that middle point in which equilibrating force abides. Furthermore, the reactions of equilibrated force do everywhere conserve universal life by the perpetual motion of birth and death. It is for this reason that the philosophers have compared their gold to the sun. For the same reason that same gold cures all diseases of the soul and communicates immortality.
The History Of Magic (1860)
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