Arcanum, Great
Arcanum, Great
The great secret that was supposed to lie behind all alchemical and magical striving. "God and Nature, alike," wrote Éliphas Lévi, "have closed the Sanctuary of Transcendent Science … so that the revelation of the great magical secret is happily impossible." Elsewhere he states that it makes the magician "master of gold and light."
Sources:
Lévi, Éliphas. Transcendental Magic. London: Rider, 1896. Reprint, New York: Samuel Weiser, 1972.
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