"But in order to work miracles we must be outside the normal conditions of humanity; we must be either abstracted by wisdom or exalted by madness, either superior to all passions or outside them through ecstasy or frenzy."
-Eliphas Levi, Dogma Et Rituel De La Haute Magie part II
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The twenty-first Key of the Tarot, surrounded by Mystic and Masonic seals - Eliphas Lévi, 1922.
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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.
The Ritual of Transcendental Magic
Eliphas Lévi
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"One knows that the members of the highest grades in the old hermetic masonry attributed to a bearded demon the accomplishment of the Great Work. At this word, the vulgar hastened to cross themselves, and to hide their eyes, but the initiates of the cult of Hermes-Pantheos understood the allegory, and were very careful not to explain it to the profane."
~ Éliphas Lévi 1810-1875.
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Eliphas Lévi
– Occult Revival
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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.
Éliphas Lévi, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie
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