# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eliphas-levi
# Generated: 2026-09-02T06:04:19.588Z

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name: "Éliphas Lévi"
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description: "A French ex-seminarian who walked away from the priesthood and spent the second half of his life writing ceremonial magic manuals under a Hebraic pen name. His 20-plus books on Kabbalah and occultism made him the go-to mystic for Parisian romantics and London symbolists in the mid-1800s."
tagline: "French occult writer and poet (1810–1875)"
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birthDate: "1810-02-08"
deathDate: "1875-05-31"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born Alphonse Louis Constant on 8 February 1810, he trained for the Catholic priesthood but abandoned it in his mid-twenties. At 40 he surfaced as a ceremonial magician, translating his baptismal name into Hebrew as "Éliphas Lévi" and publishing treatises on magic, alchemy, and Kabbalah. His best-known work, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, drew on Joseph de Maistre, Paracelsus, Swedenborg, and the Rosicrucians. He joined and then quit the Grand Orient de France, arguing that Freemasonry had lost its symbolic core and refused to tolerate Catholicism. By the time he died on 31 May 1875, he had written over 20 books and become the pivot figure for a generation of esotericists in Paris and London.