Translated into English in 1913, this book traces Western magic from its ancient origins to the nineteenth-century occult revival.[...]

This is Eliphas Levi's (1810-1875) best-known book. This work arguably made Levi THE most influential writer on magic since the Renaissance. Originally issued in French, the English translator is A.E. Waite and it is doubtful that anyone else could have better captured the essence of Levi's work. Th[...]

Eliphas Lévi links the Old and New Testaments of the Bible by comparing the qabalistic imagery and concepts inherent in both The Prophecy of Ezekiel and The Apocalypse of St. John. The first part is Lévi's illuminating commentary on Ezekiel, and in the second part, Lévi demonstrates that The Apoc[...]

Eliphas Levi, born Alphonse Louis Constant, (1810-75) was instrumental in the revival of Western occultism in the nineteenth century, and published several influential books on magic that are also reissued in this series. This posthumous publication (1896) is a translation by William Wynn Westcott, [...]

This is Levi's first treatise on magic and was translated into English by Arthur Edward Waite as "Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual". Its famous opening lines present the single essential theme of Occultism and gives some of the flavor of its atmosphere: "Behind the veil of all the hiera[...]