Such is one story at least, but an alternative says more simply that he relinquished the sacerdotal career in consequence of doubts and scruples. He had committed to permanent vows of chastity and obedience as a sub-deacon and deacon, returning to civil life was particularly painful for him he continued to wear the clerical clothes, the cassocks, until 1844.

One week before being ordained to the priesthood, he decided to leave the priestly path, however the spirit of charity and the life he had in the seminary stayed with him through the rest of his life, later he wrote that he had acquired an understanding of faith and science without conflicts. In 1832 he entered the seminary of Saint Sulpice to study to enter the Roman Catholic priesthood, as a sub-deacon he was responsible for catechism, later he was ordained a deacon, remaining a cleric to the rest of his life. Levi had a profound dislike of their persecution against the Catholic Church: I ceased being a freemason, at once, because the Freemasons, excommunicated by the Pope, did not believe in tolerating Catholicism. He also expressed his independence by leaving the Masonic lodge of the Great Orient, believing that it was a form of modern secularization, where knowledge of the original meanings of symbols and rituals was lost.

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