Transcendental Magic_Its Doctrine and Ritual by Éliphas Lévi

Author:Éliphas Lévi [Lévi, Éliphas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Spirituality, Philosophy, Religion
ISBN: 9780877280798
Goodreads: 302614
Publisher: Weiser Books
Published: 1854-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Rebellious spirits are enchained by the exhibition of the five-pointed Blazing Star or the Seal of Solomon, because each gives them proof of their folly and threatens them with a sovereign power capable of tormenting them by their recall to order. Nothing tortures the wicked so much as goodness. Nothing is more odious to madness than reason. But if an ignorant operator should make use of these signs without knowing them, he is like a blind man who discourses of light to the blind, an ass who would teach children to read.

“If the blind lead the blind,” said the Great and Divine Hierophant, “both fall into the pot.”

And now a final word to recapitulate this entire intro duction. If you be blind like Samson when you cast down the pillars of the temple, its ruins will crush you. To command Nature we must be above Nature, by resistance of her attractions. If your mind be perfectly free from all prejudice, superstition and incredulity, you will rule spirits. If you do not obey blind forces, they will obey you. If you be wise like Solomon, you will perform the works of Solomon; if you be holy like Christ, you will accomplish the works of Christ. To direct the currents of the inconstant light, we must be established in the constant light. To command the elements, we must have overcome their hurricanes, their lightnings, their abysses, their tempests. In order to DARE we must KNOW; in order to WILL, we must DARE; we must WILL to possess empire and to reign we must BE SILENT.

1 In the text of Éliphas Lévi, owing to his confused arrangement, it is impossible to say where this alleged quotation ends. The point at which I have closed it is quite speculative.

1 Compare on this subject the following extracts from Le Grand Arcane, pp. 8, 9 of the second edition: “The Astral Light or Great Agent of Life was called OD, OB and AOUR by the Hebrews. Magnetism directed by the will of the operator is OD, passive somnambulism is OB. This dual action is represented by the serpents of the Caduceus. The serpent on the right is OD, that on the left is OB, and in the centre, at the summit of the Hermetic Wand, there shines the golden globe which represents AOUR, or equilibrated Light. OD represents life in its free direction and OB fatal life. The whole secret of magnetism consists in ruling the fatality of OB by the intelligence and power of OD, in order to create the perfect equilibrium of AOUR.”

1 “God is the necessary hypothesis with which all certitudes are bound up.”—La Science des Esprits, p. 5.

1 “Christ is Priest and King by intelligence and love. He has received Holy Unction, Unction of genius, Unction of faith, Unction of virtue—which is force. He comes when the priesthood is exhausted, when the old symbols have lost their virtue, when the realm of intelligence is extinct. He comes calling back Israel to life,

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