La clef des grands mystères - Suivant Hénoch, Abraham, Hermès Trismégiste et Salomon

BEHIND the veil of all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines, behind the shadows and the strange ordeals of all initiations, under the seal of all sacred writings, in the ruins of Nineveh or Thebes, on the crumbling stones of the old temples, and on the blackened visage of the Assyrian or Egyptian sphinx, in the monstrous or marvellous paintings which interpret to the faithful of India the inspired pages of the Vedas, in the strange emblems of our old books of alchemy, in the ceremonies at reception practised by all mysterious societies, traces are found of a doctrine which is everywhere the same, and everywhere carefully concealed. Occult philosophy seems to have been the nurse or god-mother of all intellectual forces, the key of all divine obscurities, and the absolute queen of society in those ages when it was reserved exclusively for the education of priests and of kings. It reigned in Persia with the magi, who at length perished, as perish all masters of the world, because they abused their power; it endowed India with the most wonderful traditions, and with an incredible wealth of poesy, grace, and terror in its emblems ; it civilised Greece to the music of the lyre of Orpheus ; it concealed the principles of all the sciences and of all human intellectual progress in the bold calculations of Pythagoras ; fable abounded in its miracles, and history, attempting to appreciate this unknown power, became confused with fable; it shook or strengthened empires by its oracles, caused tyrants to tremble on their thrones, and governed all minds, either by curiosity or by fear.

Transcendental Magic

MANY paths lead to the mountain-top, and many and diverse are the rifts in the Veil, through which glimpses may be obtained of the secret things of the Universe.

The Abbé Louis Constant, better known by his nom de plume of ÉLIPHAS LÉVI, was doubtless a seer; but, though his studies were by no means confined to this, he saw only through the medium of the kabala, the perfect sense of which is, now-a-days, hidden from all mere kabalists, and his visions were consequently always imperfect and often much distorted and confused.

Moreover, he was for a considerable portion of his career a Roman Catholic priest, and as such had to keep terms, to a certain extent, with his church, and even later, when he was unfrocked, he hesitated to shock the prejudices of the public, and never succeeded in even wholly freeing himself from the bias of his early clerical training. Consequently he not only erred at times in good faith, not only constantly wrote ambiguously to avoid a direct collision with his ecclesiastical chiefs or current creeds, but he not unfrequently put forward Dogmas, which, taken in their obvious straightforward meanings, he certainly did not believe--nay, I may say, certainly knew to be false.

Paradoxes of the Highest Science

KNOWEST thou that old queen of the world who is on the march always and wearies never? Every uncurbed passion, every selfish pleasure, every licentious energy of humanity, and all its tyrannous weakness, go before the sordid mistress of our tearful valley, and, scythe in hand, these indefatigable labourers reap their eternal harvest. That queen is old as time, but her skeleton is concealed in the wreckage of women's beauty, which she abstracts from their youth and love. Her skull is adorned with lifeless tresses that are not her own. Spoliator of crowned heads, she is embellished with the plunder of queens, from the star-begemmed hair of Berenice to that-white, but not with age-which the executioner sheared from the brow of Marie Antoinette. Her livid and frozen body is clothed in faded garments and tattered winding-sheets. Her bony hands, covered with rings, hold diadems and chains, scepters and crossbones, jewels and ashes. When she goes by, doors open of themselves; she passes through walls; she penetrates to the cabinets of kings; she surprises the extortioners of the poor in their most secret orgies; she sits down at their board, pours out their wine, grins at their songs with her gumless teeth, takes the place of the lecherous courtesan hidden behind their curtains.

Dogma and Ritual of High Magic. Book II

Extrait : "Dieu ne peut être défini que par la foi ; la science ne peut ni nier ni affirmer qu'il existe. Dieu est l'objet absolu de la foi humaine. Dans l'infini, c'est l'intelligence suprême et créatrice de l'ordre. Dans le monde, c'est l'esprit de charité. L'Être universel est-il une machine fatale qui broie éternellement des intelligences de hasard ou une intelligence providentielle qui dirige les forces pour l'amélioration des esprits ?"

La Clef des grands mystères - Suivant Hénoch, Abraham, Hermès Trismégiste et Salomon

« Avant de pouvoir pratiquer une magie efficace et savante, le chercheur devra naturellement s'imprégner de cet incontournable livre d'un des plus grands occultistes de tous les temps » - Eliphas Levi. Tous les magistes sérieux s'appuient en effet sur la Clef des grands mystères, et ce n'est pas par hasard qu'Eliphas Levi a donné ce titre à ce qu'il considérait comme son oeuvre majeure. Les mystères religieux, la numérologie kabbalistique, la philosophie occulte, l'utilisation de la nature, les capacités psychiques, les mystères de la mort, la médiumnité... forgez votre esprit à l'aide de ce puissant recueil et embrassez les connaissances qu'il vous offre pour réaliser vos travaux.

La clef des grands mystères

Die "Geschichte der Magie" von Eliphas Lèvi ist eine wunderbare Vorlage für spirituelle Sucher. Es beeinflusste bereits Generationen von Esoterik-Autoren mit ihren verborgenen Lehren und seiner kunstvollen Sprache und rückt die esoterischen Studien des Altertums wieder ins Licht der menschlichen Erkenntnis. 

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Geschichte der Magie - Buch 1 bis 7 komplett - Mit den Verfahren, Riten und Myterien

L'Histoire de la Magie est l'?uvre essentielle d'Eliphas Lévi. Cet ouvrage publié en 1860 fait partie des trésors de la littérature ésotérique. Il été constamment réédité depuis sa parution. Il est divisé en sept livres contenant chacun seps chapitres. Dans cet ouvrage incontournable, l'auteur nous donne les clefs de l'histoire et de la pratique de la magie depuis l'Antiquité jusqu'à nos jours. Une documentation exceptionnelle !

La clef des grands mystères - Suivant Hénoch, Abraham, Hermès Trismégiste et Salomon

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