Magic, being the science of universal
equilibrium, and having the truth, reality
and reason of being for its absolute
principle, accounts for all the antimonies
and reconciles all actualities which are in
conflict with one another by the one
generating 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 and
reason 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 correspondence
of things that are contrary. The cause of all
religious errors and confusions is that in
ignorance of this great law, it has been
sought to make religion a philosophy
and
philosophy in its turn a religion.
Text: Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant), The History
of Magic
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