TRANSCENDENTAL MAGIC: ITS DOCTRINE AND RITUAL
Book Details + Condition: William Rider & Son (London). New and Revised Edition, 1923. By Eliphas Levi, with a biographical preface by Arthur Edward Waite. Frontispiece portrait of the author. 522 pages, with 1 page of publisher's advertised occult books to rear. Illustrated with b&w occult imagery throughout. 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.
A lovely copy, with firm binding; minor shelf wear; lightly bumped spine ends; foxing and toning to first toning to endpapers (with intermittent light foxing to interior pages); top corner of ffep has been cut; scuff to top corner of rear inside board; interior is clean and free of markings. The book is protected with a mylar cover. All books are carefully packed and shipped in boxes.
