French occultist and tarot reader Levi Eliphas: biography, books, achievements and discoveries. Magic is the guiding star of Eliphas Levi
1810 – 1875
In London, Louis Constant conjured the spirit of the magician Apollonius of Tyana, who lived in the 1st century. At the same time, Louis Constant took the magical name Eliphas Levi Zahed, translating the name Alphonse-Louis into Hebrew.
A Phons-Louis Constant (literary pseudonym Eliphas Levi) was born in Paris on February 8, 1810 in the family of a shoemaker. He graduated from a boys' school in Paris, and then the parish priest, captivated by the teenager's intelligence, enrolled him in the seminary of Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnay. Constant completed his education at the Seminary of St. Sulpicius. This education opened the way to a spiritual career.
Already in his early youth, Alphonse-Louis was interested in magic and the occult sciences. He may have been influenced by the fact that his elementary school principal espoused the concept of "animal magnetism" and believed that the vital energy of the human body was controlled by the Devil. Louis Constant decided to become a priest.
After spending several years as a novice, he became a deacon, taught at the Petit de Paris seminary, and took a very strict oath of carnal abstinence. Later he will say that he “didn’t know life yet” and that’s why he made such a rash decision. However, Constant's spiritual career was short-lived due to his left-wing political views and refusal to observe the vow of celibacy required of the Catholic clergy. In 1836, Louis Constant fell in love with a young girl, Adele Allenbach, and was forced to confess this to his spiritual superiors, which is why he was never ordained to a higher clergy. This drama led to a tragedy - the suicide of his mother, deeply disappointed by the act of her son, from whom she expected so much.
The year 1839 turned out to be a time of tossing and, perhaps, a final turning point in Constant’s worldview. This year he decided to condemn himself to a strict monastic life and went to the Benedictine monastery in Solemna. But his determination did not last long, and he left Solemn without any prospects for the future. The only result of this short-lived solitude was a collection of church hymns and legends - “The May Rose Bush”.
Leaving the monastery and arriving in Paris, he became interested in the theories of an eccentric old man named Hanno (also called Mapa), who called himself a prophet and reincarnation of the French king Louis XVII. Hanno's wife claimed to be the incarnation of Queen Marie Antoinette.
As Eliphas Levi himself writes in his History of Magic, “The Pope told us confidentially that he was Louis XVII, who had returned to Earth for the cause of rebirth, and the woman with whom he shared his life was Marie Antoinette of France.” He further explained, that his revolutionary theories were the last word of Cain's rebellious pretensions, designed to ensure, by a fatal reaction, the victory of Abel. We visited Mapa to laugh at his extravagances, but he captured our imagination with his eloquence."
Acquaintance with Mapa greatly influenced the worldview of the future magician and served as an impetus for writing his first book, “The Bible of Freedom.” The content of this work was so revolutionary that for publishing it in 1841 he received 8 months in prison and a 300-franc fine. While still in prison, Louis Constant became interested in the works of mystics and occultists: Swedenborg, Lull, Agrippa, Postel. At the end of 1844 he announced his final break with Catholicism. During his life, Louis Constant managed to serve three short prison terms - each time for publishing his articles on political and religious topics.
In 1846, Constant married the young Noémie Cado (she was no more than 18 years old). Noémie was not only Alphonse-Louis' faithful friend for the next seven years, but she was also no stranger to creativity. She was a brilliant creative person - a journalist and sculptor. Unfortunately, all the children of this couple died in infancy. In 1853, Noemi became interested in someone else and left her husband, and a few years later she obtained a final divorce in civil court on the grounds that the marriage “with a clergyman” could not be valid. As many authors have noted, this indicates that Constant was never excommunicated.
A real passion for magic was awakened in him by a meeting with the Polish occultist J. M. Hoen-Wronski (1776-1853), who believed that ritual magic could lead a person to a semi-divine state. In addition, according to Levi himself, he was greatly influenced by the book “The Magician” by the Englishman Francis Barrett, who lived at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries.
In 1854, Louis Constant went to England, where he met the writer Bulwer-Lytton, who was also interested in esoteric issues. Bulwer-Lytton even wrote the Rosicrucian novel Zanoni and several other occult books that made magic respectable. They both became members of an occult group, probably organized by Bulwer-Lytton, where they studied astral vision, magic, astrology and hypnosis.
In London, at the request of Bulwer-Lytton's friend, Louis Constant conjured the spirit of the magician Apollonius of Tyana, who lived in the 1st century. At the same time, Louis Constant took the magical name Eliphas Levi Zahed, translating the name Alphonse-Louis into Hebrew. At that time, he was already living off magic lessons and publishing his writings.
Levi published his first serious work on magic, The Teaching of Transcendental Magic, in 1855. The second volume - "The Ritual of Transcendental Magic" - was published the following year. This was followed by The History of Magic (1860), in 1861 by The Key to the Great Mysteries, and in 1862 by Legends and Symbols.
In his works, Levi defended the version that there is a single secret teaching that “lies behind the veil of all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines.” In the book "The Teaching of Transcendental Magic" he was the first to correlate the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and aspects of God.
In addition, Levi developed the theory of astral light, which was based on the idea of "animal magnetism". In his opinion, the astral light was like a fluid of life that fills all space and all living beings. This concept was very popular in the 19th century, Levi introduced into it that "by controlling the astral light, the magician can control all things; the will and power of a qualified magician is unlimited."
It remains unclear whether Eliphas Levi participated in any esoteric societies. According to some reports, in 1861 he joined the French Masonic lodge, but soon, disappointed, left it. However, modern Masons refute this information. Arthur Waite claims that Levi was initiated into a certain esoteric society, from which he was expelled for divulging secrets. Perhaps we are talking about the same magical society that Levi was a member of along with Bulwer-Lytton.
In the last years of his life, Levi lived through the publication of his occult works and thanks to the financial assistance of numerous students. Eliphas Levi died of dropsy on May 31, 1875. After the death of the master, his student, Baron Spedalieri published another of his books - “The Key to the Great Arcana or Occultism Unveiled.”
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, founded in London in 1888, took quite a lot of concepts and details from Levi's magic. And Aleister Crowley, born in the year of his death, claimed to be the incarnation of this magician. In his book Magick in Theory and Practice, Crowley points out a number of remarkable coincidences in his biography and the biography of Eliphas Levi.
Published in Russian: "The Doctrine and Ritual of Higher Magic" (Refl-book) 1994, "Ritual of Transcendental Magic" (Refl-book, Wakler) 1995, "History of Magic" (Refl-book) 1995, "The Great Arcana or Occultism Unveiled" ( Pritzzels) 1997.
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He wanted to be a priest, but he stumbled and the church rejected him. He considered himself immortal, but remained to live only in the memory of his descendants. His magical manuscripts are still considered treasures of the occult library, and he himself is no longer subject to the flow of time. Who is this mysterious man with an unusual and tragic fate? His name - Eliphas Levi.
Eliphas Levi - “The ways of the Lord are mysterious”
The future abbot and occultist was born into the family of a simple shoemaker in Paris and received the name Alphonse - Louis Constant at birth. Later he would translate his name into Hebrew and begin to call himself by a sonorous pseudonym - Eliphas Levi Zahed. Even in his youth, he discovered a strong craving for forbidden magical knowledge. The desire to get rid of sinful thoughts led him to church, where he went from novice to deacon and even taught seminarians theology in Petit de Paris. At the same time, Abbot Constant took the strictest oath of abstinence and a vow of celibacy. The abbot could not keep his vow and oath, as he fell in love with the young charmer Adele Allenbach. It was because of her that he lost the opportunity to continue the path of the priest. The collapse of her spiritual career brought Constant’s mother to the worst sin - suicide, but this did not stop him. After some time, Eliphas Levi will be forever excommunicated from the church for dissent.
Magic is the guiding star of Eliphas Levi
Having said goodbye to the church, Levi becomes interested in Hanno's magical theories, which radically changes his worldview. Inspired by his theories, he writes the book “The Bible of Freedom,” where he harshly criticizes the church. Because of this book, Constant goes to prison for the first time. In total, he will go to jail three times.
In 1846, the former abbot Levi connected his life with Noémie Cado, but their family life did not work out. They had no children, since they all passed away very early. After 7 years of marriage, Noemi will leave for another man and Levi will find solace in studying magic.
In 1954, Eliphas Levi travels around England and meets the famous writer Bulwer-Lytton, also interested in occult knowledge. Then they together join the occult brotherhood and comprehend clairvoyance, hypnosis, magic, calling spirits and astrology. A meeting with the occult theorist from Poland J.M. Hoen-Wronsky finally convinced Levi of the correctness of his choice. He begins to believe only in the power of magic, which allows him to reach the divine state of soul and body. His works are permeated with the idea of the existence of a single secret teaching that unites all existing ancient knowledge. There were rumors that Levi was a member of various secret societies, including the Masonic lodge, but this is difficult to prove. Witnesses also claim that in England he managed to summon the spirit of Apollonius of Tyana, a famous magician who lived in the 1st century.
During the last years of his life, Constance survived on his books and the help of his followers. There are unconfirmed facts that at the end of his life Eliphas Levi lost faith in all teachings. But even if this is so, his contribution to the mystical doctrines of the world is truly colossal.
Alphonse-Louis Constant (literary pseudonym Eliphas Levi, 1810 - 1875) was born in Paris on February 8, 1810 in the family of a shoemaker. He graduated from a boys' school in Paris, and then the parish priest, captivated by the teenager's intelligence, enrolled him in the seminary of Saint-Nicolas du Chardonnay. Constant completed his education at the Seminary of St. Sulpicius. This education opened the way to a spiritual career.
Already in his early youth, Alphonse-Louis was interested in magic and the occult sciences. He may have been influenced by the fact that his primary school principal espoused the concept of “animal magnetism” and believed that the vital energy of the human body was controlled by the Devil. Louis Constant decided to become a priest.
After spending several years as a novice, he became a deacon, taught at the Petit de Paris seminary, and took a very strict oath of carnal abstinence. Later he will say that he “didn’t know life yet” and that’s why he made such a rash decision. However, Constant's spiritual career was short-lived due to his left-wing political views and refusal to observe the vow of celibacy required of the Catholic clergy. In 1836, Louis Constant fell in love with a young girl, Adele Allenbach, and was forced to confess this to his spiritual superiors, which is why he was never ordained to a higher clergy. This drama led to a tragedy - the suicide of his mother, deeply disappointed by the act of her son, from whom she expected so much.
The year 1839 turned out to be a time of tossing and, perhaps, a final turning point in Constant’s worldview. This year he decided to condemn himself to a strict monastic life and went to the Benedictine monastery in Solemna. But his determination did not last long, and he left Solemn without any prospects for the future. The only result of this short-lived solitude was a collection of church hymns and legends - “The May Rose Bush”.
Leaving the monastery and arriving in Paris, he became interested in the theories of an eccentric old man named Hanno (also called Mapa), who called himself a prophet and reincarnation of the French king Louis XVII. Hanno's wife claimed to be the incarnation of Queen Marie Antoinette.
As Eliphas Levi himself writes in his History of Magic, “The Pope confidentially told us that he was Louis XVII, who returned to Earth for the cause of rebirth, and the woman with whom he shared his life was Marie Antoinette of France. He further explained that his revolutionary theories were the last word of Cain's rebellious claims, designed to ensure, by fatal reaction, the victory of Abel. We visited Mapa to laugh at his extravagances, but he captured our imagination with his eloquence.”
Acquaintance with Mapa greatly influenced the worldview of the future magician and served as an impetus for writing his first book, “The Bible of Freedom.” The content of this work was so revolutionary that for publishing it in 1841 he received 8 months in prison and a 300-franc fine. While still in prison, Louis Constant became interested in the works of mystics and occultists: Swedenborg, Lull, Agrippa, Postel. At the end of 1844 he announced his final break with Catholicism. During his life, Louis Constant managed to serve three short prison terms - each time for publishing his articles on political and religious topics.
In 1846, Constant married the young Noémie Cado (she was no more than 18 years old). Noémie was not only Alphonse-Louis' faithful friend for the next seven years, but she was also no stranger to creativity. She was a brilliant creative person - a journalist and sculptor. Unfortunately, all the children of this couple died in infancy. In 1853, Noemi became interested in someone else and left her husband, and a few years later she obtained a final divorce in civil court on the grounds that the marriage “with a clergyman” could not be valid. As many authors have noted, this indicates that Constant was never excommunicated.
A real passion for magic was awakened in him by a meeting with the Polish occultist J. M. Hoen-Wronski (1776-1853), who believed that ritual magic could lead a person to a semi-divine state. In addition, according to Levi himself, the book “The Magician” by the Englishman Francis Barrett, who lived at the turn of the 18th and 19th centuries, had a significant influence on him.
In 1854, Louis Constant went to England, where he met the writer Bulwer-Lytton, who was also interested in esoteric issues. Bulwer-Lytton even wrote the Rosicrucian novel Zanoni and several other occult books that made magic respectable. They both became members of an occult group, probably organized by Bulwer-Lytton, where they studied astral vision, magic, astrology and hypnosis.
In London, at the request of Bulwer-Lytton's friend, Louis Constant conjured the spirit of the magician Apollonius of Tyana, who lived in the 1st century. At the same time, Louis Constant took the magical name Eliphas Levi Zahed, translating the name Alphonse-Louis into Hebrew. At that time, he was already living off magic lessons and publishing his writings.
Levi published his first serious work on magic, “The Teaching of Transcendental Magic,” in 1855. The second volume - “The Ritual of Transcendental Magic” - was published the following year. This was followed by The History of Magic (1860), in 1861 by The Key to the Great Mysteries, and in 1862 by Legends and Symbols.
In his works, Levi defended the version that there is a single secret teaching that “lies behind the veil of all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancient doctrines.” Eliphas Levi publishes his book Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie ("Teaching and Ritual of High Magic" ), which became the cornerstone in the development of the occult. The structure of his book seemed very intriguing: two parts of twenty-two chapters, each of which corresponds to a specific Arcana of the Tarot. Eliphas Levi was not interested in the fortune-telling sphere of using Tarot cards. To a greater extent, he gravitated towards revealing the sacred mysteries of Jewish Kabbalah: in his understanding, the cards embodied a secret alphabet, closed from understanding to the uninitiated, and each of the Major Arcana corresponded to a specific place on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. In the book “The Teaching of Transcendental Magic,” he was the first to correlate the 22 Major Arcana of the Tarot with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet and aspects of God.
In addition, Levi developed the theory of astral light, which was based on the idea of “animal magnetism.” In his opinion, the astral light was like a fluid of life that fills all space and all living beings. This concept was very popular in the 19th century, Levi brought to it that “by controlling the astral light, the magician can control all things; the will and power of a qualified magician is limitless.”
It remains unclear whether Eliphas Levi participated in any esoteric societies. According to some reports, in 1861 he joined the French Masonic lodge, but soon, disappointed, left it. However, modern Masons refute this information. Arthur Waite claims that Levi was initiated into a certain esoteric society, from which he was expelled for divulging secrets. Perhaps we are talking about the same magical society that Levi was a member of along with Bulwer-Lytton.
In the last years of his life, Levi lived through the publication of his occult works and thanks to the financial assistance of numerous students. Eliphas Levi died of dropsy on May 31, 1875. After the death of the master, his student, Baron Spedalieri published another of his books - “The Key to the Great Arcana or Occultism Unveiled.”
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, founded in London in 1888, took quite a lot of concepts and details from Levi's magic. And Aleister Crowley, born in the year of his death, claimed to be the incarnation of this magician. In his book Magick in Theory and Practice, Crowley points out a number of remarkable coincidences in his biography and the biography of Eliphas Levi.
Published in Russian:
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“Teaching and ritual of high magic” (Refl-book) 1994
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“Ritual of Transcendental Magic” (Refl-book, Wakler) 1995
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“The History of Magic” (Refl-wook) 1995
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“The Grand Arcana or Occultism Unveiled” (Priescels) 1997
Materials taken from websites.
Eliphas Levi, whose real name was Alphonse-Louis Constant, was born on February 8, 1810, in Paris (Paris, France). His pseudonym was an attempt to transliterate his name "Alphonse-Louis" into Hebrew, although he himself was not Jewish. His father was a shoemaker. Eliphas attended the Saint Sulpice seminary and was preparing to become a Roman Catholic priest.
In 1836, he fell victim to female charms. A connection with a certain Adele Allenbach put an end to Eliphas’s spiritual career. Unable to come to terms with her son's failure, Levi's mother committed suicide. He left the monastery and became interested in Hanno's theory. Levi wrote a number of minor religious works, including on the topic of moral traditions and the doctrines of rationalism in France. He authored two radical treatises, “The Gospel of the People” and “The Testament of Freedom,” published during the revolution of 1848. Due to the free content of the treatises, Levi was sentenced to two short terms of imprisonment.
In 1846, the occultist had a wedding ceremony with 18-year-old Mary Noemi Cadio, who for some time was a wonderful addition to him. Bright and creative, Noemi supported her husband with all her might. However, in their marriage, all of their children died in infancy. In 1853, his wife became interested in another man and left Levi. In the same year, Eliphas arrived on a visit to England, where he met the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who was the head of a small Rosicrucian order.
Levi's first treatise on the subject of magic, The Dogma of High Magic, was published in 1854, followed by a companion volume, Rituals of High Magic, in 1856. Both books were subsequently combined into one, Dogmas and Rituals of High Magic. It was published in English in 1896, translated by Arthur Edward Waite, and was entitled “Transcendent Magic, Its Teachings and Rituals.”
Eliphas began work on writing the work “History of Magic” in 1860. A year later he published a sequel, The Key to the Great Mysteries. In 1861, he arrived in London, where he participated in a seance. He supposedly successfully summoned the spirit of Apollonius of Tyana, a 1st century Greek neo-Pythagorean philosopher and magician. It was then that the occultist translated his real name into Hebrew.
In 1862, Levi continued to write on the topic of magic and presented the book Legends and Symbols. In 1865, the books “The Witch of Medon” and “The Science of Spirits” were published. In 1868, work on the work “The Great Arcana, or Occultism Exposed” was completely completed, but it was published only 20 years after the author’s death, in 1898.
The presentation that Levi used to interpret magic and secret forces successfully took root, especially after his death. Spiritualism, widely practiced on both sides of the Atlantic in the 1850s, added its two cents to the overall popularity of Eliphas's teachings and conclusions. His magical practices, which remained quite vague, did not give rise to a cult of fanaticism. Levi also did not sell anything and had no intention of reviving any ancient cult or founding his own secret society. Eliphas connected Tarot cards to his “magical system,” and this was reflected in the fact that later ancient cards became an important part of magical paraphernalia in the West.
Levi was the first to state that the reverse pentagram (pointing down) is a symbol of evil, and the direct pentagram (pointing up) is a symbol of good.
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In the history of mankind there have been many figures, inventors and discoverers who contributed to the development of completely different areas. Among magic and esoteric sciences, Eliphas Levi became such a figure. Many people interested in this field appreciated it for its openness to the super-reality. In addition, he made many discoveries in magic, wrote a large number of books, and revealed the mysteries of rituals and practices to the world. Over time, they began to call him the last magician.
Biography
Levi Eliphas is the pseudonym of French tarot reader and occultist Alphonse Louis Constant. He was born on February 8, 1810 in the family of a shoemaker in Paris. Since childhood he was a very dreamy boy. From a young age he was interested in magic and magic, and believed that the world was much more than it seems at first glance.
Studies
The first educational institution in the life of the occultist was the Primary Seminary of St. Nicholas, located in Chardonny, where his parents sent him. After graduation, he went to Issy to enter the Superior Sulpician Seminary. It was there that Levi Eliphas began studying magic, with the help of the director of the seminary, the abbot. After graduating from this institution, he was supposed to become a deacon, but his life turned out differently. As soon as he was ordained in 1836, Levi disowned him due to his own passion.
Personal life
As Levi Eliphas himself said, he did not continue the spiritual path, because God rewarded him with what merciless saints call “temptation.” He himself believed that this was true initiation into human life. His first passion was the young Adele Allenbach, to whom he taught the discipline of catechism. But his life changed dramatically after his mother's suicide. Then spiritual and material poverty burst into her, overwhelming her with negativity.
Fateful for him was the meeting with Gauguin’s grandmother, Flora Tristan, who was a fairly significant figure in the women’s and workers’ liberation movement. It was a very stormy interaction that changed Levi's life forever. It was this woman who introduced him to Alphonse Esquiros and Balzac. The first, just before they met, published a novel called “The Magician,” which undoubtedly influenced Constant.
Solem
In 1939, Levi Eliphas returned to the path of serving the church and headed to Solem Abbey. He stayed there for only a year, after which he left due to the fact that he did not get along with the abbot. But during this time he accomplished a lot. Having received the writings of Spiridon Georges Santa in his hands, he learned a lot of information that interested him.
He was also able to master the teachings of the Gnostics of antiquity. Plunging headlong into mysticism, it was in Solem that he wrote the now famous Bible of Freedom.
Return to Paris and prison
When he returned to Paris a year later, he was once again quite destitute. He took a job as an intern at the Oratorian College in Ruyi. Then he decides to publish his Freedom Bible for the first time. But as soon as the first edition hit the shelves, the book was immediately withdrawn. The arrest of the “bible” was justified by the fact that it expressed agreement with the ideas preached by Lamennais, a Christian socialist. But in 1841, Levi again expressed the same ideas, only this time in his “Religious and Social Doctrines.”
Naturally, this entailed certain consequences. Constant was arrested and imprisoned in Saint-Pélagie, accused of attacks on property, as well as on religious and social conscience. In addition to the imprisonment itself, he was also awarded a huge fine, which, due to his financial situation, he was simply unable to pay. Levi has been imprisoned for almost a year, but even here he does not waste time and gets acquainted with the works of Swedenborg in the prison library.
Post-prison period
After his release, he almost immediately released his new book, called “Our Lady.” The clergy said about this work that the author showed heavenly love incorrectly, because it is more reminiscent of earthly feelings. After this, he completely renounces the church and the cassock. Among Constant's works there were also songs that, it is worth noting, Beranger himself approved.
From mysticism to barricades
In 1845, Constant began a detailed study of literature related to the problems of modern social order and calling for the elimination of social inequality. Eliphas Levi studied an incredible amount of information. Magic and ritual interested him most. Over time, he devotes himself to political changes in the modern system. At that time, Levi visited many republican political clubs and made more than one speech there, thanks to which he made the acquaintance of Pierre Leroux. After that, he met an eighteen-year-old girl with whom he immediately fell in love. She would later become known as a sculptor under the pseudonym Claude Vignon, although her real name was Noémie Cadiot.
New conclusion
Due to his collaboration with the opposition press, Eliphas ends up in prison again. He was convicted for a pamphlet entitled “The Voice of Hunger.” After these events, the February uprising occurs, in which Levi takes an active part as a club speaker.
After these events were completed, he was miraculously able to escape execution and remain alive. But this significantly pacified his ardor, and he withdrew from political activity. Thanks, the occultist returned to his previous path, taking the pseudonym Eliphas Levi. Doctrine and ritual are also of interest to many modern surrealists.
Kabbalah
After meeting Gohen Vronski, Constant changes his life path, realizing in conversations with this man that Kabbalah is the main science of faith. Inspired, he creates publications of dogma and describes, under his new pseudonym Eliphas Levi, the doctrine and ritual of high magic. This name is a translation of his actual data into Hebrew. At the same time, he carries out his famous summoning of the spirit of Apollonius of Tyana, who was a great magician living in the first century. This takes place in London.
Old age and death
By the time he was old, Eliphas Levi, whose books are of interest to many surrealists, already had many students and followers. Therefore, poverty no longer threatened him, because he received money for publishing many occult works. In addition, his students diligently took care of him and helped him financially. On May 31, 1875, the famous tarot reader and magician died from dropsy. Therefore, Eliphas Levi's last book was published after his death. Its publication was undertaken by one of his followers, Baron Spedalieri. It was thanks to this devoted student that the world saw the famous book called “The Key to the Great Arcana or Occultism Unveiled.”
Eliphas Levi "History of Magic"
One of the most significant books of this famous person was “The History of Magic.” The author was sure that people consider all manifestations of magic to be charlatanism and insanity only because they do not know anything about it. For Levi, magic was no less important a science than algebra or geography. Therefore, in his book, he tried to convey to the world as much as possible how important this knowledge is and how to use it in practice.
Levi believed that with the help of spells and secret rituals you can radically change your life, become more successful and get more out of life. Therefore, to this day, his treatises and teachings find their followers, and the deep knowledge of this “last magician” is passed on from generation to generation. Levi's main achievement was that he was able to pass on his experience to his students and made magic accessible to everyone. Apparently, this was facilitated by his past, where he participated with interest in the political life of the country and tried to achieve justice for all segments of the population.
Eliphas Levi. "Transcendental Magic"
For many years now, “Transcendent Magic,” written by the famous tarot reader Levi, has been practically a reference book for any medium. He explains in as much detail as possible everything related to spirits, and helps to subjugate them, learn to talk to them and understand the nature of existence. We can safely say that all his life this man tried to convey to society all possible information regarding magic in general.
He tried to show another reality, broader and more significant than the material world. And the fact that the books of this author have attracted the interest of readers for more than a century only indicates that Eliphas Levi made an incommensurable contribution to the understanding of the subtle world.