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To practice magic is to be a ...

To practice magic is to be a quack; to know magic is to be a sage.

Eliphas Levi 39 quotes

The Great Work is, before all...

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 and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.

Eliphas Levi 39 quotes

Father, forgive them,' said J...

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.

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To be rich is to give; to giv...

To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.

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Passing beauties are only the...

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal.

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If you wish to seduce an ange...

If you wish to seduce an angel, you must play the part of a devil.

Eliphas Levi 39 quotes

Succeed in not fearing the li...

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 will prove to be such-- and even more than a pleasure, it will be a blessing.

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EVERY intention which does no...

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 which proves life and establishes will

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An iron chain is less difficu...

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

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There exists in nature a forc...

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 and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.

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Order is never observed; it i...

Order is never observed; it is disorder which attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

Eliphas Levi 39 quotes

Mistress of love or of hate, ...

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.

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All the power of the occult h...

All the power of the occult healer lies in his conscious will, and all his art consists in producing faith in the patient.

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There is nothing more to cont...

There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.

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All miracles are promised to ...

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 the light in spite of all ordeals, and surmounting all obstacles?

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Weakness ever sympathizes wit...

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 all philtres, the power of all sorcerers are there.

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When one creates phantoms for...

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.

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What is more absurd and more ...

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 is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

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A good teacher must be able t...

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

Eliphas Levi 39 quotes

Order is never observed; it i...

Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

Eliphas Levi 39 quotes

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