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    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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    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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    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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    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 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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  • 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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    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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    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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