Introduction
This excerpt from Eliphas Levi, reveals how important balance
is. For me what this excerpt reveals is that there are two opposites or two
different qualities and when you bring them together in balance you create
something very different to both of them and that something different is a
magical quality that is of the Being and the consciousness and is a quality
that is most useful in life and esotericism and it is a quality that creates harmony.
The following excerpt comes from a book titled “The Great
Secret” by Eliphas Levi. The excerpt is the first thirteen paragraphs of
chapter VII.
Excerpt
“The whole power of
magic is in the central point of the universal equilibrium.
The wisdom which
strikes this equilibrium is contained in these four dicta: know the truth, will
what is good, love beauty, do what is just! Because truth, goodness, beauty and
justice are inseparable; so that he who knows the truth must need will what is
good, to love it because it is beautiful and to do it because it is just.
The central point in the
intellectual and moral order is the link between science and faith. In human
nature this central point is the medium in which soul and body combine to
establish the identity of their action.
In physics it stands for
the resultant of opposing forces compensated by one another.
Understand this link,
take possession of this medium, act upon this resultant!
ET ERITUS SICUT DII
SCIENTES BONUM ET MALUM.
(“And ye shall be as
Gods, knowing good and evil”).
The point of balance
between life and death is the great secret of immortality.
The point of balance
between day and night is the mainspring of the movement of the worlds.
The balancing point
between science and faith is the great secret of philosophy.
The balancing point
between order and liberty is the great secret of politics.
The balancing point
between men and women is the great secret of love.
The balancing point
between will and emotion, between action and reaction is the great secret of
power.
The great secret of
high magic, the inexpressible, incommunicable secret is nothing other than the
balancing point between the relative and the absolute.”
End (806).
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