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 Civi