Eliphas Levi Quotes
There is nothing more to controlling demons than to do good and fear nothing.
Lévi, Éliphas. The Key of the Mysteries. Translated by Aleister Crowley, Rider & Company, 1959.
Giovanni Battista Cibo. This was quoted in the Malleus Maleficarum, the man legal handbook used for centuries for the discovery and punishment of witches.
Éliphas Lévi Zahed, born Alphonse Louis Constant, was a French esotericist, poet, and author of more than twenty books about magic, Cabbalah, alchemical studies, and occultism. Considered the most influential occultist of the nineteenth century, he pursued an ecclesiastical career in the Catholic Church until, after great personal struggle, at the age of 26, he abandoned the Roman Catholic priesthood. At the age of 40 he started to profess a knowledge of the occult, also becoming a reputed ceremonial magician.