Eliphas Levi Quotations

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal.

A chain of iron is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

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 confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.

Nothing can resist the will of man when he knows what is true and wills what is good.

Succeed in not fearing the lion, and the lion will fear you.

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; beautiful Helen of Troy has become a toothless skull, then a handful of dust, then nothing.

Fear is nothing but idleness of the will...

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.

Magic is the divinity of man achieved in union with faith...