“That profanation has befallen the doctrines and mysteries of Magic we have no intention to deny; repeated from age to age, the misuse itself has been a great and terrible lesson for those who made secret things unwisely known.
The Gnostics caused the Gnosis to be prohibited by Christians, and the official sanctuary was closed to high initiation.
The hierarchy of knowledge was thus compromised by the intervention of usurping ignorance, while the disorders within the sanctuary were reproduced in the state, for, willingly or otherwise, the king always depends from the priest, and it is towards the eternal adytum of divine instruction that earthly powers will ever look for consecration and for energy to insure their permanence” (Eliphas Levi, The History of Magic, 1860, p. 44).
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misuse itself has been a great and terrible lesson for those who made secret things unwisely known.
