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Something wrong?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.
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, Happy in the time of Jesus were those who wept!
We want to be clearly understood on this point. We are not trying to say that signs and rites are a big piece of humbug.
Progress is a possibility for the animal: it can be broken in, tamed and trained; but it is not a possibility for the fool, because the fool thinks he has nothing to learn.
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Spouse: Marie-Noémi CadiotAbout this person
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.
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