TRANSCENDENTAL MAGIC: ITS DOCTRINE AND RITUAL
Book Details + Condition: The Occult Publishing House (Chicago). Scarce early English edition, 1910. By Eliphas Levi, with a biographical preface by Arthur Edward Waite. Frontispiece portrait of the author. 420 pages, with advertised occult books to rear. Illustrated with b&w occult imagery throughout. A solid and clean copy of an increasingly scarce edition, with firm binding (interior hinge cracked but solid); lightly bumped corners; chafed spine ends; a bit of fading to spine; name and info to ffep; old water (etc) stain to bottom corner of text block, which appears at bottom corner and edge of middle section of book (approximately half of book, with some areas covering a larger section of the edge/corner than others); interior is otherwise clean and free of markings.
Eliphas Lévi Zahed, born Alphonse Louis Constant, was a French occult author, socialist, and ceremonial magician. "éliphas Lévi", the name under which he published his books, was his attempt to translate or transliterate his given names "Alphonse Louis" into the Hebrew language. "Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie" is the title of éliphas Lévi's first published treatise on ritual magic, which appeared in two volumes between 1854 (Dogme) and 1856 (Rituel). The work is structured into 22 chapters, which parallel the Tarot. Contents include:
- Pillars of the Temple
- Triangle of Solomon
- The Tetragram
- The Pentagram
- Initiation
- The Kabbalah
- Hermetic Magic
- Necromancy
- Black Magic
- Bewitchments
- Astrology
- Charms and Philtres
- Stone of the Philosophers
- Sabbath of the Sorceress
- Divination
- Mastery of the Sun
- Book of Hermes
- And MUCH more.
