Elements of the Qabalah

by Éliphas Lévi

Friend and Brother, I can give you this title because you are searching for the truth in the sincerity of your heart, ready to make the necessary sacrifices in order to find it. Truth, being the essence of all that is, is not difficult to find: it is within us and we are within it. It is like light and the blind do not see it. Being is. This is incontestable and absolute. The exact idea of Being is truth; its knowledge is science; its ideal expression is reason; its activity is creation and justice. You wish to believe, you say. For this, it is enough to know and to love truth. For the true faith is the unshakeable adhesion of the mind to the necessary deductions of science in conjectural infinity.Only occult sciences give certitude, for they have their bases in realities and not in dreams. In every religious symbol, they bring out the true and the false. What is true is the same everywhere, but falsehoods spring up according to places, times and people.

Genres: Esoterica, Occult

38 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 1997

About the author

Éliphas Lévi is the pen-name of Abbé Alphonse Louis Constant, a Roman Catholic priest and magician. His later writings on the Tarot and occult topics were a great influence on the Spiritualist and Hermetic movements of fin de siècle England and France, especially on such members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn as Arthur Edward Waite and Aleister Crowley.

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Éliphas Lévi es el nombre adoptado por el mago y escritor ocultista francés Alphonse Louis Constant.

Reviews

[Walter Eduardo Murillo · Rating 5 out of 5]

Todo por Vosotros en la Sagrada Ciencia...

[Shaun Phelps · Rating 5 out of 5]

Simple, short, and friendly. A timely guide to a slice of occultism I've always been wary of. I feel much more bolstered to proceed.

[Penny · Rating 5 out of 5]

There are a lot of books out there explaining the Qabalah, but Elements of the Qabalah by Eliphas Levi is by far the best. I highly recommend this book for anyone that doesn't understand the Qabalah, or is wanting to learn. I found the book to be very easy to learn from, as well as remarkably helpful in path working. Elements of the Qabalah is also must have reference book to have in your collection. No matter what your beliefs are, you can enrich yourself, and achieve a higher understanding with this one book.