Éliphas Lévi Zahed, born Alphonse Louis Constant (8 February 1810 – 31 May 1875), was a French esotericist, poet, and writer. Initially pursuing an ecclesiastical...
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Baphomet (section Éliphas Lévi)
sciences. — Éliphas Lévi, Dogme et rituel de la haute magie Lévi's depiction of Baphomet is similar to that of The Devil in the early Tarot. Lévi, working...
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Tarot card reading (section Éliphas Lévi)
New York: Robert M. De Witt. Lévi, Éliphas (1861). Dogme et rituel de la haute magie. Paris: Germer Baillière. Lévi, Éliphas (1861). La clef des grands...
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Ceremonial magic (section Éliphas Lévi)
book gained little other notice until it influenced Eliphas Levi.[citation needed] Éliphas Lévi (1810–1875) conceived the notion of writing a treatise...
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Body of light (section Éliphas Lévi)
body or body of light was adopted by 19th-century ceremonial magician Éliphas Lévi, Florence Farr and the magicians of the Hermetic Order of the Golden...
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esotericist Éliphas Lévi then used the term in his influential book on ritual magic, Dogme et rituel de la haute magie, first published in 1856. Lévi was familiar...
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History of magic (section Éliphas Lévi)
book gained little other notice until it influenced Eliphas Levi.[citation needed] Éliphas Lévi (1810–1875) conceived the notion of writing a treatise...
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the tarot trumps. Etteilla created a method of divination using tarot; Éliphas Lévi worked to break away from the Egyptian nature of the divinatory tarot...
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essentially "good". However, the influential but controversial writer Éliphas Lévi, known for believing that magic was a real science, had called it evil...
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magazine and by Olavo de Carvalho, and, according to Guénon, began with Éliphas Lévi. See the section on the history of this usage. Some authors seem to have...
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following Aleister Crowley, though that spelling ultimately derived from Éliphas Lévi) is a talisman that is used in magical evocation, and is usually made...
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ruling over matter. As influenced by the 19th-century French occultist Éliphas Lévi, an inverted pentagram represents materiality while an upright pentagram...
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occultists influenced by French tarotists such as Etteilla, and later, Eliphas Lévi. These occultists later produced esoteric decks that reflected their...
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2012. Artist Mark Porter created the sculpture in Florida using the Éliphas Lévi drawing as his basis. The piece was first seen publicly on 25 July 2015...
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text may have been published in 1750. The 19th-century French occultist Éliphas Lévi considered the contemporary edition of Le Dragon Rouge to be a counterfeit...
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University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 9780812235197. McIntosh, C. (2011). Eliphas Lévi and the French Occult Revival. State University of New York Press....
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develop a more reasoned atheistic philosophy. Nineteenth century occultist Éliphas Lévi published his well-known drawing of the Baphomet in 1855, which notably...
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Seat for the operations of Infernal Magic and Necromancy." According to Éliphas Lévi, "Some old copies of the Grimoire of Honorius bear, however, the name...
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statesman Éliphas Lévi (1810–1875), French occult author and purported magician Elvis Levi (born 1987), New Zealand rugby union player Eric Lévi (born 1955)...
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One of Pike's influences was the French author Éliphas Lévi, the pen name of Alphonse Louis Constant. Lévi was a prolific writer on occult topics who, in...
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came to be associated with various French esoteric groups connected to Éliphas Lévi and Papus, and in 1875 was introduced into the English language by the...
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Haute Magie (English: "Dogma and Ritual of High Magic") is the title of Éliphas Lévi's first published treatise on ritual magic, which appeared in two volumes...
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French, the occultist and ceremonial magician Eliphas Lévi (1810–1875) popularized the term in the 1850s. Lévi also introduced the term l'occultisme, a notion...
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Gérard Encausse (section Lévi, Tarot, and the Kabbalah)
studying the Kabbalah, occult tarot, magic and alchemy, and the writings of Eliphas Lévi. He joined the French Theosophical Society shortly after it was founded...
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blindness. In the Rider–Waite–Smith deck, the Devil is derived in part from Eliphas Levi's famous illustration "Baphomet" in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie...
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magician Éliphas Lévi (1810–1875), who shocked convention by turning the traditional figure of evil into a brave rebel against tyranny. Lévi has been...
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Great Work (Hermeticism) (section Eliphas Levi)
Institute of Integral Studies. ISBN 978-1-109-76116-0. ProQuest 305237207. Lévi, Éliphas (1968). Transcendental Magic: its Doctrine and Ritual. Translated by...
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Schriften von Eliphas Lévi [Socialism, Catholicism, and Occultism in Nineteenth-Century France: The Genealogy of the Writings of Eliphas Lévi]. Religionsgeschichtliche...
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text" continue to interest occultists. This is the case with the mage Éliphas Lévi: "Nothing surpasses and nothing equals as a summary of all the doctrines...
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and cup), from the writings of the mid-19th-century occult writer Eliphas Levi. Levi himself mentioned most of those objects (all except for the cup) in...
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