HISTORY OF MAGIC - Eliphas Levi/AE Waite - MAGICK SORCERY OCCULT GRIMOIRE RITES

THE HISTORY OF MAGIC: INCLUDING A CLEARM AND PRECISE EXPOSITION OF ITE PROCEDURE, RITES AND MYSTERIES Book Details + Condition: Scarce facsimile reprint from Kessinger Publishing Company (publishers of rare and out-of-print books on Alchemy, Freemasonry, Hermetic, Rosicrucian, and Occult subjects), circa 1990s. 536 pages, with b&w illustrations. Translation, Preface and Notes by A.E. Waite. Eliphas Lévi Zahed, born Alphonse Louis Constant, was a French occult author, socialist, and ceremonial magician. His "Histoire de la Magie" was first published in 1860. (Please see our available copy of this original First Edition.) Lévi exerted a profound influence on those occultists who would follow, including the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Helen Blavatsky, and Aleister Crowley, among others. The work is divided into 7 "Books": - The Derivations of Magic - Formation and Development of Dogmas - Divine Synthesis and Realisation of Magia by the Christian Revelation - Magic and Civilisation - The Adepts and the Priesthood - Magic and the Revolution - Magic in the Nineteenth Century Levi's work offers a thorough and broad examination of magic and the occult from ancient times to the occult revival of the 19th century, with topics including: - Magic of the Magi - Hermetic Magic - The Holy Kabbalah - Mysticism - Superstitions - Magical Monuments - The Devil - The Last Pagans - Influence of Women - Magicians - On Certain Alchemists - Magical Origin of Freemasonry - The Illuminati - Hallucinations - Mesmerists and Somnabulists - Magical Literature - The Occult Sciences - And so much more. Firm binding; normal aging and wear to covers, with old dog-eared right corner; interior is clean and free of markings.