Magic, being the science of universalequilibrium, and having the truth, realityand reason of being for its absoluteprinciple, accounts for all the antimoniesand reconciles all actualities which are inconflict with one another by the onegenerating principle of every synthesis –that harmony results from the analogy of opposites.
For the initiate of this science religion is not in doubt because it exists, and we do not deny what is. Being is being. The apparent opposition of religion andreason is the strength of both, establishing each in its distinct domain and fructifying the negative side of each by the positive side of the other : as we have just said, it is the attainment of agreement by the correspondenceof things that are contrary. The cause of allreligious errors and confusions is that inignorance of this great law, it has beensought to make religion a philosophy andphilosophy in its turn a religion.
Sculptures: Dan Flavin
Text: Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant), The Historyof Magic
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