Very well, then. I shall continue to post quotes relevant to the thread.
*"We have stated elsewhere that the ancient rites have lost their efficacy since the advent of Christianity.
Catholic Christianity is in fact the legitimate daughter of Jesus, whom the magi adored. Catholic worship is nothing other than high magic referred to the laws of the hierarchy, which are indispensable to ensure that it is both reasonable and efficacious.
An ordinary scapular, worn by a true Christian, is a more invincible talisman than the ring and the pentacle of Solomon.
Jesus Christ, Son of God and Son of Man, so humble, said of Himself: ‘The Queen of Sheba came from the distant East to see and listen to Solomon, and a greater than Solomon is here.’
The Mass is the most prodigious of evocations.
Necromancers evoke the dead, sorcerers evoke the devil and tremble, but the Catholic priest does not tremble to evoke the Living God!
What are all the talismans of ancient science in comparison with the consecrated wafer?
Let Solomon’s skeleton sleep on in its tomb of rock, together with the ring he may have on his bony finger. Jesus Christ has risen from the dead, He lives. Take one of those silver rings as sold at the church porch, stamped with the image of the crucified and with ten rosary beads. If you are worthy to wear it, it will be more effective in your hands than the genuine ring of Solomon would be."*
- Eliphas Levi, The Great Secret
