Eliphas Lévi citáty

Eliphas Lévi bol francúzsky okultista, spisovateľ a diakon. Bol pevným zástancom katolicizmu, pápežstva a hierarchie. Tento monarchista a veľký obdivovateľ Napoleona, bol zároveň propagátor neortodoxnej kabaly a mágie, ktorej zasvätil celý svoj život.

Pseudonym „Eliphas Lévi“, pod ktorým publikoval svoje knihy, vzniklo preložením alebo transliterovaním rodného mena „Alphonse Louis“ do hebrejčiny. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. február 1810 – 31. máj 1875
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Eliphas Lévi: Citáty v angličtine

“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.”

Book Two: The Royal Mystery or the Art of Subduing the Powers, Chapter XII: The Terrible Secret
The Great Secret: or Occultism Unveiled

“Magic is the traditional science of the secrets of Nature which has been transmitted to us from the Magi.”

Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Zdroj: Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magi Part I: The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic By Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant), Translated by A. E. Waite, England, Rider & Company, England, 1896, p.3

“Bloody and hideous facts; acts of revolting superstition, arrests, and executions of stupid ferocity. "Burn every body!" the Inquisition seemed to say — God will easily sort out His own! Poor fools, hysterical women, and idiots were roasted alive, without mercy, for the crime of "magic."”

Eliphas Levi kniha Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie

But, at the same time, how many great culprits escaped this unjust and sanguinary justice! This is what Bodin makes us fully appreciate.

Quoted in Isis Unveiled, by H.P. Blavatsky, Vol. II, Chapter III (1877)
Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1856)

“Magic is an instrument of divine goodness or demoniac pride, but it is the annihilation of earthly joys and the pleasures of mortal life.”

Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Zdroj: Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magi Part I: The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic By Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant), Translated by A. E. Waite, England, Rider & Company, England, 1896, p. 53

“Judge not; speak hardly at all; love and act.”

Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians

“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.”

Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Zdroj: [Lévi, Éliphas, Blavatsky, H. P., Paradoxes of the Highest Science, 2007, Wildside Press LLC, 9781434401069, 15, https://books.google.com/books?id=oIglEl6BJFoC&q=The%20Paradoxes%20of%20the%20Highest%20Science&pg=PA5]

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

Zdroj: Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians

“In Black Magic, the Devil means the employment of the Grand Magical Agent for a wicked purpose by a perverted Will.”

Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Zdroj: The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum, Eliphas Levi, Translated by W. Wynn Westcott, London, George Redway, 1896, p. 60.

“There is a true and a false science, a Divine and an Infernal Magic – in other words, one which is delusive and tenebrous.”

Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Zdroj: Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magi Part I: The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic By Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant), Translated by A. E. Waite, England, Rider & Company, England, 1896, p. 3

“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.”

Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Zdroj: Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magi Part I: The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic By Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant), Translated by A. E. Waite, England, Rider & Company, England, 1896, Introduction p. 11

“Necromancy, and Goetia, which is Evil Magic, do produce such shells and demons, apparitions of deceit.”

Miscellaneous Quotes On the Subjects of Magic and Magicians
Zdroj: The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum, Eliphas Levi, Translated by W. Wynn Westcott, London, George Redway, 1896, p. 51.