Eliphas Levi

An iron chain is less difficult to break than a chain of flowers.

A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.

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.

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

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal.

There exists in nature a force which is immeasurably more powerful than steam, and by means of which a single man, who knows how to adapt and direct it, might upset and alter the face of the world.

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