Mysteries of Magic - A Digest of the Writings of Eliphas Levi

Mysteries of Magic - A Digest of the Writings of Eliphas Levi Synopsis

"e;The Mysteries Of Magic"e; is a 1927 work by A. E. Waite that explores the life and work of Eliphas Levi Zahed (1810 - 1875), a French occult author and ceremonial magician. Arthur Edward Waite (1857 - 1942), more commonly referred to as A. E. Waite, was an American-born British mystic and poet. He wrote profusely on the subject of the occult and esoteric matters, and is famous for being the co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck. His work arguably constitutes the first attempt to systematically studying the history of western occultism, which he viewed more of a spiritual tradition than proto-science or pseudo-religion, as was the more common conception. Contents include: "e;Life of Alphonse Louis Constant"e;, "e;Notes on the Mysteries of Magic as expounded in the Occult Philosophy of Eliphas Levi"e;, "e;Threshold of Magical Science"e;, "e;Doctrines of Occult Force"e;, "e;Written Tradition of Magic"e;, "e;Doctrine of Spiritual Essences, or Kabbalistic Pneumatics"e;, "e;Ceremonial Magic"e;, "e;Science of the Prophets"e;, etc. Other works by this author include: "e;The Alchemical Writings of Edward Kelly"e; (1893), "e;Turba Philsophorum"e; (1894), and "e;Devil-Worship in France"e; (1896). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern, high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.

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