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Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual by Éliphas Lévi explores magic, the "esoteric science," and its place between science and religion.

Widely considered a classic of Western occultism, Eliphas Levi's The Key of the Mysteries represents the full culmination of his thought. In this translation by Aleister Crowley, Levi explores the hidden secrets of the Qabalah, numerology, explorations of natural mysteries like fluidic phantoms, his theory of will, and its 22 distinct axioms.

The History of Magic (1913) is an extensive work on the origins of ceremonial magic throughout the world's many cultures and religions. Written by mystic and occultist Éliphas Lévi and translated by British scholar A.E. Waite, this is a foundational book for any student of the occult.

The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic was first published in 1854. This work establishes the concepts behind symbols like the tetragram and pentagram, the significance of Hebrew letters and numbers, and the relationship between science, occultism, and formal religion. Levi was the first to document the meaning of the points of the pentagram. He stated that a pentagram with only one point up and two down is a symbol of the Savior, and a pentagram with two points up and one down is a “symbol of evil and attracts sinister forces.”

This is a collection of 21 essays on a variety of occult-themed topics, covering the full spectrum of classic esoteric and related subjects, which include Hermeticism, alchemy, magic, the Kabbalah, ancient wisdom and philosophy, the Tarot, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Theosophy, and spiritualism, by some of the most notable and prominent names in the history of those subjects.

Eliphas Lévi, (Parigi, 1811-1878) è stato un esoterista e teosofo francese. Fu il più famoso studioso di esoterismo dell’ottocento. Intrattenne rapporti con adepti della Massoneria francese. Fu iniziato ai misteri della cabala da Wronski, che gli impose il nome magico di Eliphas, traduzione in ebraico del suo nome natale Alphonse Louis Constant.

Depuis trop longtemps on confond la magie avec les prestiges des charlatans, avec les hallucinations des malades, et avec les crimes de certains malfaiteurs exceptionnels. La magie est en fait la science des anciens mages ; et la religion chrétienne, qui a imposé silence aux oracles menteurs, et fait cesser tous les prestiges des faux dieux, révère elle-même ces mages qui vinrent de l'Orient, guidés par une étoile, pour adorer le Sauveur du monde dans son berceau.

Questa opera fondamentale di Eliphas Levi, pubblicata in due volumi nel 1855-56 è uno studio esaustivo e notevole della teoria e pratica della cosiddetta magia, nel senso più esaustivo del termine, che, grazie alle esperienze e teoria del magnetismo, perdeva al tempo dell'autore la sua aura di superstizione e veniva illuminata dalla luce della scienza.