Title Page : THE PARADOXES OF THE HIGHEST SCIENCE IN WHICH THE MOST ADVANCED TRUTHS OF OCCULTISM ARE FOR THE FIRST TIME REVEALED (IN ORDER TO RECONCILE THE FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS OF SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY WITH THE ETERNAL RELIGION) LIPHAS LVI With Footnotes By A Master Of The Wisdom originally Published: Calcutt...
The Paradoxes Of The Highest Science. Paradox. Part 04 : PARADOX IV.--KNOWLEDGE IS THE IGNORANCE OR NEGATION OF EVIL "FATHER, forgive them, for they know not what they do," said Christ, in praying for his executioners. Thus speaking, he was pleading the cause of all Humanity. All men deceive themselves because "they know not," and no man knows "what" he...
Synthetic Recapitulation. Magic And Magism : p. 98 SYNTHETIC RECAPITULATION MAGIC AND MAGISM THE name of magic, after having been so dreaded and so execrated in the Middle Ages, has become in our days almost ridiculous. A man who seriously occupies himself with Magic will hardly pass as a reasonable being unless set down as a physici...
The Paradoxes Of The Highest Science. Paradox : PARADOX VII.--THE WILL ACCOMPLISHES EVERYTHING, WHICH IT DOES NOT DESIRE PRINCE SAKYAMUNI, who has been called Buddha, said that all the torments of the Human Soul had their origin in either fear or desire; and he concluded by two sentences which we may thus render-- Desire then nothing, not even...
The Paradoxes Of The Highest Science. Paradox. Part 06 : PARADOX II.--LIBERTY IS OBEDIENCE TO THE LAW WHERE there is the spirit of God there is Liberty, say the Holy Scriptures. "Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free", said Jesus Christ. We should escape from the bondage of the letter to the liberty of the spirit, said the gre...
The Paradoxes Of The Highest Science. Paradox. Part 02 : PARADOX VI.--THE IMAGINATION REALISES WHAT IT INVENTS BEHOLD! the greatest magician in the universe! It is she who makes the memory yield its fruit, who realises beforehand the Possible, and invents even the Impossible. To her miracles cost nothing. She transports houses and mountains through...
Untitled : THE PARADOXES OF THE HIGHEST SCIENCE BY LIPHAS LVI [1922] This was the first of Lvi's books to be translated into English. The original French version was published in 1856. This translation (by an unknown hand) was first published in 1883 by the Theosophical Society, and re-issued in 1922, with...
Synthetic Recapitulation. The Great Secret : p. 159 THE GREAT SECRET NOT to succumb to the unchangeable forces of nature, but to direct them; not to allow ourselves to be enslaved by them, but to make use of them to the benefit of immortal liberty; "this" is the great Secret of Magic. Nature is intelligent, but she is not free. The Heavenly...
Preface To The 1922 Second Edition : p. vi PREFACE TO THE 1922 SECOND EDITION 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 Abb Louis Constant, better known by his "nom de plume" of LIPHAS LVI, was doubtless a seer;...
The Paradoxes Of The Highest Science. Paradox. Part 03 : PARADOX V.--REASON IS GOD THIS should be placed first. It is before everything: it is self-existent, it exists even for those who do not know it, as the Sun for the Blind, but to see it, feel it, understand it, this is the triumph of the understanding in man; it is the definite result of all...
Foreword To The 1922 Second Edition : p. xi FOREWORD TO THE 1922 SECOND EDITION THERE appear, in the early volumes of "The Theosophist", several fragments called "Unpublished Writings of liphas Lvi. liphas Lvi" was the French Abb Louis Constant, a priest who left the Roman Catholic Church to devote himself to Kabbalistic Mysticism...
The Paradoxes Of The Highest Science. Paradox. Part 07 : p. 1 THE PARADOXES OF THE HIGHEST SCIENCE PARADOX I.--RELIGION IS MAGIC SANCTIONED BY AUTHORITY MAGIC is the divinity of man conquered by science in union with faith; the true Magi are Men-Gods, in virtue of their intimate union with the divine principle. They are without fear and without desires;...
The Paradoxes Of The Highest Science. Paradox. Part 05 : PARADOX III.--LOVE IS THE REALISATION OF THE IMPOSSIBLE LOVE is the Omnipotence of the Ideal. By, the Ideal the soul is exalted; it becomes greater than Nature, more living than the world, loftier than Science, more immortal than Life. When Jesus Christ said: Love God with all your heart and your...