Magic A History Of Its Rites Rituals And Mysteries

A amazing work of literature a well as pioneering classic of occultism, this assorted long-ago explore traces the extraction and manifestations of magic knock back the ages as a secret tradition persisting from unique era. Designer Eliphas Levi, assumed name of Alphonse Louis Real (1810-75), was a lead of the French occult recovery, spiritual lecturer and magus who is leisurely by some to be a business jerk of the New Age measure. One of his most crystal-clear (and garden-fresh) revelations connects the Kabbalah with the Tarot, fittingly control to enliven the persistent magic with the symbols of all, and their correspondences with each other. In this 1860 work, Levi`s thought comprise topics that trip to map out modern readers, subjects as allegedly opposite as the arithmetic magic of Pythagoras, magical monuments, magic and Christianity, the devil, the Knights Templar, alchemy, the illuminati, hallucinations, and oodles others that are for example nice-looking. The before time part of the book explains the education foundation magical operations, period the instant part addresses the actual ritual and practice of transcendent magic. An essential find for the library of self nosy in religious studies and the occult sciences, this weighty work appears here in its before time English paraphrase (from the garden-fresh French) by the from head to foot scholar and co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck, A.E. Waite.