Eliphas Levi

This is Eliphas Levi's (1810-1875) best-known book. This work arguably made Levi THE most influential writer on magic since the Renaissance. Originally issued in French, the English translator is A.E. Waite and it is doubtful that anyone else could have better captured the essence of Levi's work. The book is divided in two parts; the first is theoretical, the second practical. This is a fascinating and often debated work involving a discussion that covers almost the entire realm of Ritual and High Magic.

Transcendental Magic

First published in 1913, this classic text is an invaluable source book on the history and practice of magic and occultism. The contents include: Magic of the Magi, Magic in Ancient Greece, the Kabalah, Primitive Symbolism, Mysticism, Oracles, Magical Monuments, Magic and Christianity, Pagan Magic, Kabalistic Paintings and Sacred Emblems, Sorcerers, Magic and Freemasonry, the Illuminati, and more. Illustrated.

The History of Magic

Metafizik Maji Ögretisi ve Ritüeli - Cilt 1

Containing the works: The Royal Mystery or the Art of Subduing the Powers and The Sacerdotal Mystery or the Art of being served by Spirits

The Grande Arcana of Eliphas Levi

The Great Secret

The Paradoxes of the Highest Science

Eliphas Le'vi was steeped in the Western occult tradition and a master of the Rosicrucian interpretation of the Qabalah, which forms the basis of magic as practiced in the West today. The Key of the Mysteries represents the culmination of Le'vi's thoughts and is written with subtle and delicate irony. It reveals the mysteries of religion and the secrets of the Qabalah, providing a sketch of the prophetic theology of numbers. The mysteries of nature, such as spiritualism and fluidic phantoms, are explored. Magical mysteries, the Theory of the Will with its 22 axioms are divulged. And finally it offers "the great practical secrets." The true greatness of this work, however, lies in its ability to place occult thought firmly in Western religious traditions. For Le'vi, the study of the occult was the study of a divine science, the mathematics of God.

Key of the Mysteries

Daath Gnosis

This is a compilation of Eliphas Levi's writings on the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot and their corresponding Hebrew letters. It includes the ""Magic Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum"", some extracts from the ""Major Keys and the Clavicles of Solomon"" and the Editor's Appendix is a large collection of Levi's drawings and diagrams for easy reference. ÒThe science of signs begins with the science of letters. Letters are absolute ideas. Absolute ideas are numbers. Numbers are perfect signs. In using ideas with numbers, one can operate upon the ideas like one can operate upon number and arrive at the mathematics of truth. The tarot is the key of letters and numbersÉÓ ÒNow, the tarot that we have today É has come to us from Egypt passing through Judea. The keys of this tarot, in fact, correspond with the letters of the hebraic alphabet, and some of its figures even reproduce the same form of the characters of this sacred alphabet.Ó

The Kabalistic and Occult Tarot of Eliphas Levi

MANY paths lead to the mountain-top, and many and diverse are the rifts in the Veil, through which glimpses may be obtained of the secret things of the Universe. The Abbé Louis Constant, better known by his nom de plume of ÉLIPHAS LÉVI, was doubtless a seer; but, though his studies were by no means confined to this, he saw only through the medium of the kabala, the perfect sense of which is, now-a-days, hidden from all mere kabalists, and his visions were consequently always imperfect and often much distorted and confused. Moreover, he was for a considerable portion of his career a Roman Catholic priest, and as such had to keep terms, to a certain extent, with his church, and even later, when he was unfrocked, he hesitated to shock the prejudices of the public, and never succeeded in even wholly freeing himself from the bias of his early clerical training. Consequently he not only erred at times in good faith, not only constantly wrote ambiguously to avoid a direct collision with his ecclesiastical chiefs or current creeds, but he not unfrequently put forward Dogmas, which, taken in their obvious straightforward meanings, he certainly did not believe--nay, I may say, certainly knew to be false.

Paradoxes of the Highest Science

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Necromancy and the Ceremony for the Resurrection of the Dead

Arthur Edward Waite

The History of Magic (1913) is a treatise on the origins of ceremonial magic. Written by mystic and occultist Éliphas Lévi and translated by British scholar A.E. Waite, this is a foundational book for any student of the occult.

Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of Its Procedure, Its Rites and Its Mysteries

By the time of his death in 1875, Eliphas Lvi was recognised in both Europe and America as the greatest occultist of the 19th century. In The Paradoxes of the Highest Science, first published in 1883, Lvi makes an appeal for a balance between science and religion by addressing seven paradoxical statements. Included in this edition are some extensive and illuminating footnotes that were added to Lvi's text.

This volume represents the high-water mark of the thought of Eliphas Levi. It may be regarded as written by him as his Thesis for the Grade of Exempt Adept, just as his "Ritual and Dogma" was his Thesis for the grade of a Major Adept. He is, in fact, no longer talking of things as if their sense was fixed and universal. He is beginning to see something of the contradiction inherent in the nature of things, or at any rate, he constantly illustrates the fact that the planes are to be kept separate for practical purposes, although in the final analysis they turn out to be one. This, and the extraordinarily subtle and delicate irony of which Eliphas Levi is one of the greatest masters that has ever lived, have baffled the pedantry and stupidity of such commentators as Waite.

The Key Of The Mysteries

On the brink of mystery, the spirit of man is seized with giddiness. Mystery is the abyss which ceaselessly attracts our unquiet curiosity by the terror of its depth. The greatest mystery of the infinite is the existence of Him for whom alone all is without mystery. Comprehending the infinite which is essentially incomprehensible, He is Himself that infinite and eternally unfathomable mystery; that is to say, that He is, in all seeming, that supreme absurdity in which Tertullian believed. Necessarily absurd, since reason must renounce for ever the project of attaining to Him; necessarily credible, since science and reason, far from demonstrating that He does not exist, are dragged by the chariot of fatality to believe that He does exist, and to adore Him themselves with closed eyes. Why? Because this Absurd is the infinite source of reason. The light springs eternally from the eternal shadows. Science, that Babel Tower of the spirit, may twist and coil its spirals ever ascending as it will; it may make the earth tremble, it will never touch the sky. God is He whom we shall eternally learn to know better, and, consequently, He whom we shall never know entirely.

La Clef Des Grands Mysteres

The Key of the Mysteries

This is the complete English version of Eliphas Levi's treatise on ritual magic. This work is in two parts: in the first one, called "The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic", we establish the kabalistic and magical doctrine in its entirety; this here, the second part, is consecrated to the cultus, that is, to Ceremonial Magic. The one is that which the ancient sages termed the Clavicle, the other that which people on the country-side still call the Grimoire. The numbers and subjects of the chapters which correspond in both parts, are in no sense arbitrary, and are all indicated in the great universal key, of which we give for the first time a complete and adequate explanation. Let this work now go its way where it will and become what Providence determines; it is finished, and we believe it to be enduring, because it is strong, like all that is reasonable and conscientious. Contents: Introduction Chapter I - Preparations Chapter Ii - Magical Equilibrium Chapter Iii - The Triangle Of Pantacles Chapter Iv - The Conjuration Of The Four Chapter V - The Blazing Pentagram Chapter Vi - The Medium And Mediator Chapter Vii - The Septenary Of Talismans Chapter Viii - Warning To The Imprudent Chapter Ix - The Ceremonial Of Initiates Chapter X - The Key Of Occultism Chapter Xi - The Triple Chain Chapter Xii - The Great Work Chapter Xiii - Necromancy Chapter Xiv - Transmutations Chapter Xv - The Sabbath Of The Sorcerers Chapter Xvi - Witchcraft And Spells Chapter Xvii - The Writing Of The Stars Chapter Xviii - Philtres And Magnetism Chapter Xix - The Mastery Of The Sun Chapter Xx - The Thaumaturge Chapter Xxi - The Science Of The Prophets Chapter Xxii - The Book Of Hermes

The Ritual of Transcendental Magic

Nenhum divulgador moderno das ciências ocultas pode ser comparado a Éliphas Lévi. Já entre os antigos, apesar de muitos estarem em maior patamar, nenhum nos é tão interessante de ser estudado, pois ele representa o próprio espírito dos tempos modernos tentando reinterpretar, por vezes forçadamente, os oráculos da antiguidade. É óbvio que há nomes mais grandiosos, mas ninguém excede o fascínio que o mago francês trouxe para a literatura ocultista. Os demais são destinados aos especialistas e aos típicos estudantes sérios capazes de escavar significado em tomos quase incompreensíveis, enquanto nos livros de Lévi conseguimos apreciar de fato a leitura, da mesma forma que podemos apreciar poetas modernos. No texto de Lévi as concepções antigas são devidamente revisitadas e consideradas, mas de cada parágrafo emana um novo espírito primaveril. Lévi ainda estava no meio do caminho de ascensão nos graus iniciáticos quando publicou Dogma e Ritual da Alta Magia. E, não obstante, sua obra veio a se tornar uma das mais célebres no meio ocultista, de modo que até o século atual ela continua sendo considerada uma das introduções mais confiáveis à Cabala, ao Tarô, à prática da magia cerimonial e ao ocultismo em geral. *** Número de páginas Equivalente a aproximadamente 510 págs. de um livro impresso (tamanho A5). Sumário (com índice ativo) - Prefácio: A vida de Éliphas Lévi (por Arthur Edward Waite) - Uma nota sobre a tradução - Guia de leitura - Discurso preliminar - Introdução - Dogma (com 22 capítulos) - Introdução do Ritual - Ritual (com 22 capítulos) - Suplemento do Ritual: O Nuctemeron de Apolônio de Tiana - Apêndice: O que é ocultismo? Obs.: Este livro digital possui mais de 40 ilustrações do próprio autor espalhadas ao longo dos capítulos. *** [ uma edição Textos para Reflexão distribuída em parceria com a Bibliomundi - saiba mais em raph.com.br/tpr ]

Dogma e Ritual da Alta Magia

The Great Secret completes a trilogy of books by Eliphas Levi published in his "Studies in Hermetic Tradition" series, the two previous volumes being The Book of Splendours and The Mysteries of the Qabalah. Taken together these writings represent a fitting memorial to one who "has been both the keeper of the hermetic tradition and the absolute renovator of esoteric thinking in Europe in the 19th century". "You will be as gods, knowing good and evil". So concludes what Eliphas Levi considered to be his last testament, his most important and final treatise, and a summation of his esoteric philosophy. This volume is the conclusion of the work he started with Book One, The Hieratic Mystery or the Traditional Documents of High Initiation, published as The Book of Splendours (Weiser, 1984). The Great Secret contains his final two works: Book Two, The Royal Mystery or Art of Subduing the Powers, in which Levi discusses such topics as Evil, the Outer Darkness, the Great Secret, Magical Sacrifice, Evocations, the Arcana of Solomon's Ring, and the Terrible Secret. Book Three, The Sacerdotal Mystery or the Art of Being Served by Spirits, covers Aberrant Forces, the Chaining of the Devil, Sacred and Accursed Rites, Divination, Dark Intelligence, and the Great Arcanum.

The Great Secret Or Occultism Unveiled

This is the first English translation of Eliphas Levi's Preliminary Discourse from the second edition of his famous Dogma & Ritual of High Magic (also called Transcendental Magic in English). It is a Discourse on Gnostic Kabalah: the Human Verb, the Divine Verb and Divine Humanity. It is presented in a Bilingual format (English side-by-side with the original French) with copious footnotes and a sizable Editor's Appendix. Levi mentions it in his correspondence with his student Baron Spedalieri, saying: "...the economy of numbers necessitates the alliance of science and of faith which will constitute the absolute reason for the human verb upon an unshakable foundation, analogous to that of God, as I have demonstrated in the preliminary discourse of my second edition to Dogma and Ritual..."

The Reconciliation of Science and Religion: Eliphas Levi's Discourse on Gnostic Kabalah - the Human Verb, the Divine Verb and the Divine Humanity

A SOCIEDADE DAS CIÊNCIAS ANTIGAS, dando prosseguimento as suas publicações sobre Filosofia Oculta, edita hoje uma obra que trata da Ciência dos Espíritos; trata-se de um livro que, sob a forma literária e poética, oculta para o vulgo e ensina para os estudiosos da matéria os maiores mistérios da Ciência. Este estudo está dividido em três partes: na primeira parte, sob o título Espíritos reais, trata de Deus e do homem reunidos e idealizados na pessoa de Jesus Cristo; na segunda parte, sob o título de Espíritos hipotéticos, fala dos anjos, dos demônios e das almas desencarnadas, segundo as doutrinas cabalísticas e mágicas; na terceira parte, consagrada aos pretensos espíritos ou fantasmas, aborda as evocações e aprecia os fenômenos e as doutrinas espíritas. A Ciência supõe necessariamente Deus, estuda os espíritos do homem em suas mais altas aspirações, examinas as hipóteses relativas aos espíritos desconhecidos e rejeita os fantasmas. Acima da Ciência está Deus, na Ciência Cabalística está o Absoluto, na Filosofia Oculta está o Agente Universal. A explicação desta força universal nos é dada magistralmente por Eliphas Levi, o sábio cabalista francês do século passado.

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