Books by Eliphas Levi

Pour la première fois, une Histoire de la magie composée de sept volumes regroupés ici en un seul tome, nous montre au cours des siècles quels furent les rituels les mieux gardés et nous en révèle les secrets. Cette oeuvre majeure dans toute bibliothèque d'occultisme retrace l'histoire de la Magie, de ses origines dans les temps anciens à la fin du XIXe siècle. Qu'il y soit question de magie Hermétique, d'alchimie, de sorcellerie ou des secrets de la Kabbale, Éliphas Lévi, dans une démarche qui se veut pédagogique, nous raconte cette histoire dans un langage simple, avec précision et concision. Un histoire qui se lit comme un roman.

Dies geniale Werk des französischen Magiers E. Levi behandelt die Philosophie des Ausgleichs, des Gleichgewichtes, die Balance der Kräfte, die beiden linken und rechten Waagschalen, die zur Gottheit führen. Er setzt den Vergleich zwischen dem Zentrum und der Peripherie, stellt die beiden notwendigen Seiten von Gut und Böse gegenüber, die zur wahren goldenen Mitte führen, wie es bis jetzt in dieser Weise noch nie zu Papier gebracht wurde. Levi schreibt gegen den notwendigen Teufel, weil seine tierischen Eigenschaften nicht im Seelenspiegel enthalten sein dürfen. Gleichzeitig stellt er den dummen und unwissenden Menschen dem weisen und wissenden Eingeweihten gegenüber, um den Unterschied zwischen dem giftigen und vergänglichen Blei und dem ewig glänzenden Gold aufzuzeigen.

Transcendental Magic - Its Doctrine and Ritual is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

This vintage book contains the original French version of Éliphas Lévi Zahed's 1861 work "Dogme et Rituel - De la Haute Magie". Éliphas Lévi Zahed (1810 - 1875) was a French author of occult literature and ceremonial magician. Contents include: "Discours Préliminaire", "Introduction", "Le Récipiendaire", "Les Colonnes du Temple", "Dogme De la Haute Magie", "La Réalisation", "La Chaine Magique", "La Nécromancie", "Les Envoutements", "Les Philtrés er Les Sorts", etc. This fascinating book will appeal to those with an interest in the occult, and it would make for a fantastic addition to collections of allied literature. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

Transcendental Magic is a classic of occultism, prized for its wide-ranging wisdom, thorough guidance and revelatory contents.Written by Eliphas Levi in the mid-19th century, Transcendental Magic offers seekers of occult knowledge a bounty of guidance and knowledge. Informed by research spanning many centuries of arcane arts, the author offers us profound guidance to the ceremonial rituals one must perform in order to make contact with spirits and other non-corporeal entities of the universe. In Levi's explanations we encounter various figures of occult lore. Monad is synonymous with God; the creator of everything contained in our physical plane. Derived from the Pythagorean school, through Levi we learn how Monad interacts with the creation. This discussion is related to the Kabbalah, which attempts to define the relationship between what is infinite and what is finite.

Transcendental Magic is a classic of occultism, prized for its wide-ranging wisdom, thorough guidance and revelatory contents.Written by Eliphas Levi in the mid-19th century, Transcendental Magic offers seekers of occult knowledge a bounty of guidance and knowledge. Informed by research spanning many centuries of arcane arts, the author offers us profound guidance to the ceremonial rituals one must perform in order to make contact with spirits and other non-corporeal entities of the universe. In Levi's explanations we encounter various figures of occult lore. Monad is synonymous with God; the creator of everything contained in our physical plane. Derived from the Pythagorean school, through Levi we learn how Monad interacts with the creation. This discussion is related to the Kabbalah, which attempts to define the relationship between what is infinite and what is finite.

In the Introduction, Aleister Crowley, who translated the book, called it the masterpiece of Levi. The author, Eliphas Levi, reveals how to use the most hidden of occult secrets to reach the highest order of the human mind. The author has determined that the key to the world's mysteries resides on a higher plane that can only be accessed by reconciling the contradictions found in the dualism of reality. The methods used to accomplish this are explained as being this key. One may discover in this book the absolute knowledge of good and evil, why alchemy is the daughter of the Qabalah, secrets of life and death, the astral world, and the deeper mysteries of religion, including the Christian Cross. It also covers the use of Spiritualism, the Tarot, mesmerism, mediumship, magnetic powers, and various forms of magic that may be used to invoke either angels or demons. Eliphas Levi is legendary in the field of the occult, transcendental magic and the hidden world. If this book is indeed his masterpiece, it should leave no question in the minds of readers regarding its ability to live up to its title - the key of the mysteries.

This Volume is a compilation of 196 letters from Eliphas Levi to three different students: -1 letter to Mme. Hutchinson -10 letters to Mr. Montaut (also known as "The Elements of the Kabalah") -185 letters to the Baron Spédalieri These letters cover a variety of subjects and are presented in a Bilingual format (English side-by-side with the original French) with copious footnotes and illustrations to help the student grasp the subject matter. Although many of these letters have been published in English before, this is a new translation of them all. This collection is a wonderful way to see into the heart of the Author and contain insights into his Transcendental Philosophy. "The effect which I await for you (from my epistolary lessons) will be the understanding of my books which contain the whole doctrine, but in an abridged and succinct form."

Presentiamo, inedito per l'Italia, un saggio di Eliphas Lévi sull'Alchimia. In questo scritto, corredato da 80 note integrative e complementari aggiunte dal curatore, il divulgatore francese affronta il tema dell'Agente Universale Trasmutativo, degli elementi necessari al compimento della Grande Opera e della matematica sequenza delle operazioni richieste. Chiara appare l'evidenza che non si tratta di operazione di laboratorio, bensì di un'Opera che ogni uomo deve compiere nella propria fucina interiore. La nostra opera è la conversione e la trasformazione di un essere in un altro essere, di una cosa in un'altra cosa, dalla debolezza alla forza, dal corporeo allo spirituale (Nicolas Flamel)

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. "The 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 numbers..." "Now, the tarot that we have today ... 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."

Eliphas Levi (1810-75) was instrumental in the revival of Western occultism in the nineteenth century. This posthumous publication (1896), translated from an unpublished manuscript, outlines the meanings of the twenty-two tarot trumps and includes editorial notes on their iconography. It concludes with Kabbalistic prayers and occult and religious maxims.

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

First published in France in 1854, this highly popular two-volume treatise on ritual magic initiates the reader into the secrets of Western occult philosophy. This first volume, 'The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic', chronicles the philosophy of western magic and the esoteric.