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Eliphas Levi Biography

Éliphas Lévi Zahed, born Alphonse Louis Constant (February 8, 1810 – May 31, 1875), was a French occult author and ceremonial magician.

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Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflectios of the eternal.

Beauties, Beauty, Eternal, Fugitive, Passing

Weak people talk and do not act, strong people act and keep quiet.

Keep, People, Procrastination, Strong, Success, Talk

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

Attention, Awkward, Disorder, Observed, Order

Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms.

Law, Analogies, Movement, Everything, Contraries

Doubt is really a groping ignorance.

Doubt, Groping, Ignorance

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.

Conquest, Creation Of Man, Entire, Men, Perfect

One can only define the unknown by its supposed and supposable relations with the known.

Define, Known, Relation, Relations, Supposed

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

Magic, Practice, Sage

The Placer is an enemy who must necessarily become our lord or our slave; one doesn't enjoy if it's not defeated.

Defeated, Enemy, Lord, Placer, Slave

When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.

Creation, Cute, Finite, Infinite, Love

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

Lions, Succeed, Fear, Fearing, Lion

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

Men, Knows, True, Wills, Resist

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, along with the dream (for those who have not yet achieved it) of accomplishing the great work, that is the reproduction by man of the divine, natural fire which creates and recreates beings.

Accomplishing, Dream, Fire, Men, Nature

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.

Assumes, Delights, Poison, Sorcerers, Vices, Weakness

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.

Become, Blessing, Fear, Fearing, Lions, Suffering

It is necessary to DARE what must be attempted.

Attempted, Dare, Necessary

Fear is nothing but idleness of the will.

Fear, Idleness, Nothing

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

Angel, Play, Seduce, Wish

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

Achieved, Divinity, Magic, Man, Men, Unions

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.

Blood, Children, Creates, Vampire, Vampires

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