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Eliphas Lévi, born Alphonse Louis Constant
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Eliphas Levi – Occult Author and Magician
A century after Cagliostro, came Eliphas Levi. The Egyptian Rite faded out because its upsetting magical nature deterred prospecting practitioners. Another reason for the decline of the popularity of Cagliostro’s Egyptian Rite was the perception that it posed a threat to the Vatican, and provoking the wrath of the Inquisition was obviously a dangerous thing to do.
How did he know what he knew? “Cagliostro sometimes used these invisible forces to know the future, while at other times he himself was writing the future because he himself initiated Napoleon into the Illuminati, in the country side near Rome, and gave Napoleon the highest of mysteries of the Grand Hierophant, making him Imperator of the Rose Cross/Rosicrucians. Napoleon was made Imperator of the Invisible/Metaphysical Kingdom before he was actually installed in the real one. He was warned by the people initiated him not to abuse his power and to never really try and achieve the same power in the physical kingdom because that would probably bring him death.”
0:19:50
Alchemy, the Royal Art of Transformation
At the lower level, people perceive the alchemist as something connected with protochemistry, the search for the Philosopher’s Stone, but “this has always been misunderstood by the masses.” The ultimate Philosopher’s Stone is “within our head, the illumination of our mind.” Alchemy also includes the possibility of reaching awareness that puts us in contact with not only demonic entities, which are relatively easy to reach if you have knowledge of witchcraft etc., but also interaction with the Angelic Ones, which requires a state of spiritual purity.
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The Memphis & Misraim Rite
To recap, the whole transformation of society that continues to this day, has been influenced by the notable professors of the Egyptian Rite: Cagliostro, St Germain, Eliphas Levi and Albert Pike. The Egyptian Rite withered away entirely or survived only with a very limited number of practitioners. Cagliostro had created the Arcana Arcanorum and he helped create the masonic rite of Memphis & Misraim, two Egyptian rites which were unified and gained notoriety with the help of officers of Napoleon who aided in its spreading.
Within the Memphis & Misraim rite one transcends the basic level of awareness and enters the world of real transcendental magic and real high level operative magic. “Unfortunately, even the highest masters have to leave this reality to then incarnate in a successful incarnation to bring further this civilization, to where we are now.”
The Egyptian rites spawned the SRIA, in which Eliphas Levi actively participated as well as Edward Bulwer-Lytton and the rites spawned the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, which counted the poet William Butler Yeats among its membership. The Golden Dawn, based in England, functioned as the repository of Egyptian esoteric knowledge. Members of the Golden Dawn, which were also high level Freemasons, “could actually experiment and go further in their understanding.”
Another interesting member of the Golden Dawn is the author of Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle. One can perceive from his adventurous Sherlock Holmes writings the occult knowledge that went into it. His chronicles are not as much biographical “as they are similar to what he himself experienced many times within some of these secret societies.” The adventures of Sherlock Holmes can therefore be interpreted in two ways: one for the profane masses, and one for the initiated few.
0:24:30
Aleister Crowley – The Great Beast 666
Another interesting member of the Golden Dawn is the controversial Aleister Crowley who was initiated in 1898 by Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers who was the leader of the Golden Dawn at that time. However, Crowley managed to create a problem for his fellow practitioners, who “were not really ready to go to the next level” and also because he wanted to absorb “all the evil of the world and incarnate any possible demon that crossed his path” and doing it the “most picturesque way.” Something which he indeed managed to do.
MacGregor Mathers had translated a couple of very important books, e.g. “The Magic of Abramelin the Mage” or “The Goetia – Lesser Keys of Solomon”, are books for evoking these entities. Leo then goes on the explain that one very rarely finds people who really know how to do these rituals, safely and genuinely.
Obviously Crowley knew very well what he was getting himself into but was willing to confront “even the biggest of demons because he wanted to be part of this [alchemical] transformation.” Leo explains that “alchemy in the hands of the Occult Masters, the Secret Chiefs, the People Beyond Suspicion, are the people who are secretly ruling this planet to this day” as alchemy is also very much a science of transformation of the masses, not just a science of transforming yourself, the spiritual branch of alchemy known as inner alchemy.
“Once you transform yourself, the goal of alchemy becomes to transform others. The master alchemist is transforming not only one person but is transforming whole nations. We see how Napoleon managed to do that quite well but many others did also.”
Sometimes however one ends up with a bad experience, such as was the case with Adolph Hitler – who was initiated in the Thule Gesellschaft, the secret society founded in 1918 by Baron Rudolph von Sebottendorff who secretly financed the NSDAP – the Nazi party. He published in 1924 a very rare and particular text known as the Secret Rituals of Turkish Ottoman Freemasonry. Leo emphasizes that it’s very dangerous to really go into this gnostic Kabbalistic knowledge of the Koran, which not only is a sacred religious text but is also a text that has many hidden meanings and a Kabbalistic meaning similar to the Jewish text.
The occult formulas present in the Koran form a procedure which entails a complex operation in which the practitioner experiences various color sensations and when he starts having visions of green then this symbolizes that a connection has been established with an entity known as “al-Khidr,” a very powerful ‘green’ entity that comes into being when invoked in a certain way but also appears every time he wants to guide you in a certain direction.
The point Leo is trying to make is that occult masters are behind every significant historical event. They occupy both the ranks of the good as well as the evil side, of what we perceive as reality. Overall our understanding of reality is very limited as human beings. It’s very hard for us to understand why these Secret Masters, Secret Chiefs and Unknown Superiors act this way. We perceive things always with our limited knowledge of space and time and a limited lifetime limits this means of perception. On the other hand, the masters can afford to be patient as they possess immortality. Therefore the masters perceive things in a time-span of “thousands and thousands of years.” The events surrounding, for instance, the second World War were all terrible events but they all are to be viewed as one “single transformation which continues to expand, just like our universe is expanding.”
