(g) This section adores the evil principle as such.

Now, in each and all these matters the Palladian system conflicts with that of Levi.
To give a colourable aspect to their hypothesis, the witnesses affirm that Levi was a high-grade Mason.

He was nothing of the kind; he affirms most distinctly in his "History of Magic," that for any knowledge which he possessed about the mysteries of the fraternity, he owed his initiation only to God and to his individual studies.

Secondly, the practice of ceremonial magic, which is what the witnesses understand by theurgy, is a practice condemned by Levi, except as an isolated experiment to fortify intellectual conviction as to the truth of magical theorems.

He attempted it for this purpose in the spring of the year 1854, and having satisfied himself as to the fact, he did not renew it.
Thirdly, the philosophy of Eliphas Levi is in direct contrast to Manichaean doctrine; it cannot be explained by dualism, but must be explained by its opposite, namely, triplicity in unity.