Bücher von Eliphas Levi

Der gesamte Éliphas Lévi in neuer Meisteredition: Mit authentisch restaurierten Abbildungen seiner magisch-imaginativen Illustrationen, in aktueller Rechtschreibung und unverfälschter Übersetzung des Originals. Der Altmeister der Magie Éliphas Lévi betrachtete die Theorie und Praxis der Magie in einer ganzheitlichen Art und revolutionierte so das Verständnis des Okkultismus in der gesamten westlichen Welt. "Transzendentale Magie" erschien erstmals Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts und ist sein erstes und gleichzeitig bekanntestes magisches Werk. Lévi wollte die Religion und das logische Denken - Glaube und Wissenschaft - innerhalb eines esoterischen Weltbildes miteinander verbinden und kam zu originellen und bemerkenswerten Ergebnissen. So geht beispielsweise die Zuordnung der hebräischen Buchstaben zu den Großen Arkana des Tarot und die Vorstellung vom Astrallicht auf seine Forschungen zurück. Éliphas Lévi hat nicht nur die französischen Bohemien- und englischen Salon-Okkultisten seiner Generation maßgeblich beeinflusst, sondern er definierte damit den essenziellen Kern der modernen esoterischen Lehre neu. Seine Bücher und Zeichnungen sind erfüllt von einer intensiven Energie, die selbst den heutigen Leser verzaubert und die gesamte esoterische und okkulte Bewegung bis heute inspiriert.

Der Altmeister der Magie Éliphas Lévi betrachtete die Theorie und Praxis der Magie in einer ganzheitlichen Art und revolutionierte so das Verständnis des Okkultismus in der gesamten westlichen Welt. Dieses Spätwerk des berühmten Neubegründers der Esoterik legt die persönlichsten und verborgensten Aspekte seiner Lehren offen wie kein anderes Buch. »Einweihung in die Hohe Magie« enthält den innersten Kern der abendländischen Tradition, die ihre Wurzeln in der Kabbala, der jüdischen Mystik, hat. Nahezu alle späteren esoterischen Bewegungen bis heute haben aus Lévis Werken und seinem Wissen geschöpft - jedoch meistens ohne seinen Namen zu nennen. Diese 184 Einweihungsbriefe an Baron Spedalieri gehen auf eine Zeit zurück, in der Levi seine bekannten Hauptwerke bereits geschrieben hatte. Aufgrund seiner Berühmtheit wandten sich immer wieder höhergestellte Persönlichkeiten an ihn und boten hohe Summen dafür, um von ihm tiefer in die Mysterien der Magie eingeweiht zu werden. Baron Spedalieri gehörte dem Martinisten-Orden an und wurde von Levi selbst als einer seiner fortgeschrittensten Schüler bezeichnet. Da diese Briefe nicht für die Öffentlichkeit bestimmt waren, konnte er die bedeutendsten esoterischen Fragen ohne Angst vor Missbrauch viel umfassender behandeln und klarer beantworten als es sonst möglich gewesen wäre. Die mit reichhaltigem Bild- und Symbolmaterial illustrierten Einweihungsbriefe wurden von Levi als ein aufbauender Lehrgang in die wichtigsten Grundregeln der Esoterik konzipiert. So weitreichende und tiefgehende Studien über die geheimen Beziehungen zwischen den Zahlen, Buchstaben und dem Tarot sind in dieser überzeugenden Klarheit der symbolischen Ausdeutung noch nirgends erschienen. Die Briefe enthalten zudem intime Vertraulichkeiten über die größten Wissenden seiner Zeit.

Publicado postumamente e considerado ¿a obra definitivä de Éliphas Lévi, assim como seu testamento espiritual, o Grande Arcano ou o Ocultismo Revelado contém as duas últimas obras do autor sobre as ciências ocultas, que estão divididas em duas partes: Na primeira, a obra aborda o Mistério Real ou a Arte de Governar as Forças e Subjugar os Poderes, discutindo o mal, as trevas exteriores, o grande segredo, o sacrifício mágico, o poder que cria e transforma, entre outros. Na segunda parte, o autor debate o Mistério Sacerdotal ou a Arte de Fazer Servir-se pelos Espíritos, apresentando temas como, as forças errantes, o sobrenatural e o divino, a adivinhação, os ritos sagrados e os malditos, entre outros. Este é seu último livro sobre as artes mágicas que envolvem as chamadas ¿Ciências Ocultas¿. Esta edição conta com o texto integral da tradução da primeira edição francesa de 1889 (totalmente revista), e cotejada com a primeira edição brasileira, de 1920, traduzida diretamente do original francês.

Pour la première fois, une Histoire de la magie composée de sept volumes regroupés ici en un seul tome, nous montre au cours des siècles quels furent les rituels les mieux gardés et nous en révèle les secrets. Cette oeuvre majeure dans toute bibliothèque d'occultisme retrace l'histoire de la Magie, de ses origines dans les temps anciens à la fin du XIXe siècle. Qu'il y soit question de magie Hermétique, d'alchimie, de sorcellerie ou des secrets de la Kabbale, Éliphas Lévi, dans une démarche qui se veut pédagogique, nous raconte cette histoire dans un langage simple, avec précision et concision. Un histoire qui se lit comme un roman.

Transcendental Magic - Its Doctrine and Ritual is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1896.Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Transcendental Magic is a classic of occultism, prized for its wide-ranging wisdom, thorough guidance and revelatory contents.Written by Eliphas Levi in the mid-19th century, Transcendental Magic offers seekers of occult knowledge a bounty of guidance and knowledge. Informed by research spanning many centuries of arcane arts, the author offers us profound guidance to the ceremonial rituals one must perform in order to make contact with spirits and other non-corporeal entities of the universe. In Levi's explanations we encounter various figures of occult lore. Monad is synonymous with God; the creator of everything contained in our physical plane. Derived from the Pythagorean school, through Levi we learn how Monad interacts with the creation. This discussion is related to the Kabbalah, which attempts to define the relationship between what is infinite and what is finite.

Transcendental Magic is a classic of occultism, prized for its wide-ranging wisdom, thorough guidance and revelatory contents.Written by Eliphas Levi in the mid-19th century, Transcendental Magic offers seekers of occult knowledge a bounty of guidance and knowledge. Informed by research spanning many centuries of arcane arts, the author offers us profound guidance to the ceremonial rituals one must perform in order to make contact with spirits and other non-corporeal entities of the universe. In Levi's explanations we encounter various figures of occult lore. Monad is synonymous with God; the creator of everything contained in our physical plane. Derived from the Pythagorean school, through Levi we learn how Monad interacts with the creation. This discussion is related to the Kabbalah, which attempts to define the relationship between what is infinite and what is finite.

In the Introduction, Aleister Crowley, who translated the book, called it the masterpiece of Levi. The author, Eliphas Levi, reveals how to use the most hidden of occult secrets to reach the highest order of the human mind. The author has determined that the key to the world's mysteries resides on a higher plane that can only be accessed by reconciling the contradictions found in the dualism of reality. The methods used to accomplish this are explained as being this key. One may discover in this book the absolute knowledge of good and evil, why alchemy is the daughter of the Qabalah, secrets of life and death, the astral world, and the deeper mysteries of religion, including the Christian Cross. It also covers the use of Spiritualism, the Tarot, mesmerism, mediumship, magnetic powers, and various forms of magic that may be used to invoke either angels or demons. Eliphas Levi is legendary in the field of the occult, transcendental magic and the hidden world. If this book is indeed his masterpiece, it should leave no question in the minds of readers regarding its ability to live up to its title - the key of the mysteries.

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Eliphas Levi (1810-75) was instrumental in the revival of Western occultism in the nineteenth century. This posthumous publication (1896), translated from an unpublished manuscript, outlines the meanings of the twenty-two tarot trumps and includes editorial notes on their iconography. It concludes with Kabbalistic prayers and occult and religious maxims.

Born Alphonse Louis Constant, French magician Eliphas Levi (1810-75) wrote prolifically on the occult sciences. His hugely popular Dogme et rituel de la haute magie, published in French in 1854, was translated into English by Arthur Edward Waite (1857-1942) in 1896. In the present work, Waite condenses Levi's two volumes into one. The first part outlines Levi's theory of the doctrine of transcendent magic and discusses a wide range of magical phenomena, including bewitchment, Kabbalah and alchemy. The second part focuses on the practical aspects of ritual and ceremony in Western occult philosophy. Waite, a mystic and occult historian, edited several alchemical and magical texts for publication in the wake of the mid-nineteenth century occult revival. His translation is accompanied by a preface outlining Levi's colourful career. The original two-volume French edition is also reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection.

First published in French, this work by Eliphas Levi (1810-75) was translated into English by occult historian Arthur Waite in 1913. In this book, Levi traces Western magic from its origins in the ancient world to the nineteenth-century occult revival. Levi's French edition is also reissued in this series.

First published in 1860, Eliphas Levi's history of magic follows in the wake of his enormously successful Dogme et Ritual de la Haute Magie, which first appeared in 1854. In this book, the French occultist and alleged magician offers a thoroughly comprehensive survey of the idea of 'magic' in Western history, from its origins in Indian, Greek, cabalistic and hermetic traditions to the latest developments in nineteenth-century occult philosophy, as well as his own private recollections of his experience with magic. Levi is adamant in his treatment of magic as a serious science and one compatible with Christianity, encouraging his readers to see magic as the reconciliation point between faith and reason, science and belief, authority and liberty. Extending to almost six hundred pages and with numerous illustrations, this book should appeal to those interested in the nineteenth-century obsession with mysticism and the occult.

First published in France in 1854, this highly popular two-volume treatise on ritual magic initiates the reader into the secrets of Western occult philosophy. This first volume, 'The Doctrine of Transcendental Magic', chronicles the philosophy of western magic and the esoteric.