Eliphas Levi

Eliphas Levi repeatedly warns that we must make use of every hour and moment; we must rid the will of any dependency and accustom it to domination, we must become absolute master of the self, learn how to deny that call of pleasure, hunger, and sleep and be unmoved by success of failure. Life must be given over to the will directed by one’s thought and served by the entire nature to submit in every organ to the spirit, and by sympathy to all universal forces corresponding to them. All the faculties and senses must participate in the Work; nothing must be left inactive. The genuine spirit must have secured itself against all danger of hallucination and terror, and so find us purified inwardly and outwardly.