The history of magic,: Including a clear and precise exposition of its procedure, its rites and its mysteries, - Softcover

Levi, Eliphas.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0090307623 ISBN 13: 9780090307623

Publisher: Rider and Company, 1969

Synopsis

English (translation)Original French

About this title

Book Description

First published in French, this work by Éliphas Lévi (1810-75) was translated into English by occult historian Arthur Waite in 1913. In this book, Lévi traces Western magic from its origins in the ancient world to the nineteenth-century occult revival. Lévi's French edition is also reissued in this series.

About the Author

Alphonse Louis Constant, better know by his pen name Eliphas Levi, was a master of the traditional Rosicrucian interpretation of the Kabbalah. He was born in France in 1810, and through the offices of the parish priest, was educated for the church at SaintSulpice. He was later expelled from seminary for teaching doctrines contrary to those of the Roman Catholic Church. In 1824 Levi began studying the occult sciences, and wrote about magic and the Kabbalah for the next three decades. His other books include "Transcendental Magic", "Mysteries of the Qabalah", and "The Book of Splendours".

Edition details

• Publisher: Rider and Company
• Publication date: 1969
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0090307623
• ISBN 13: 9780090307623
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384