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What Is More Absurd And More Impious Than To Attribute The Name Of Lucifer To The Devil, That Is, To Personified Evil. The Intellectual Lucifer Is The Spirit Of Intelligence And Love; It Is The Paraclete, It Is The Holy Spirit, While The Physical Lucifer Is The Great Agent Of Universal Magnetism.

Passing Beauties Are Only The Fugitive Reflections Of The Eternal. All Beauty Alters And All Life Melts Away; In Short, Everything Passes With Marvelous Rapidity; Beautiful Helen Of Troy Has Become A Toothless Skull, Then A Handful Of Dust, Then Nothing.

Hermeticism Is The Science Of Nature Hidden In The Hieroglyphics And Symbols Of The Ancient World. It Is The Search For The Principle Of Life, Along With The Dream (for Those Who Have Not Yet Achieved It) Of Accomplishing The Great Work, That Is The Reproduction By Man Of The Divine, Natural Fire Which Creates And Recreates Beings.

Nothing Can Resist The Will Of Man When He Knows What Is True And Wills What Is Good.

Magic Is The Divinity Of Man Achieved In Union With Faith.