Eliphas Lévi and the French Occult Revival | Free Book
Christopher McIntosh
This classic study of the French magician Eliphas Lévi and the occult
revival in France is at last available again after being out of print
and highly sought after for many years. Its central focus is Lévi
himself (1810-1875), would-be priest, revolutionary socialist, utopian
visionary, artist, poet and, above all, author of a number of seminal
books on magic and occultism. It is largely thanks to Lévi, for
example, that the Tarot is so widely used today as a divinatory method
and a system of esoteric symbolism. The magicians of the Golden Dawn
were strongly influenced by him, and Aleister Crowley even believed
himself to be Lévi's reincarnation. The book is not only about Lévi,
however, but also covers the era of which he was a part and the
remarkable figures who preceded and followed him – the esoteric
Freemasons and Illuminati of the late 18th century, and later figures
such as the Rosicrucian magus Joséphin Péladan, the occultist Papus
(Gérard Encausse), the Counter-Pope Eugène Vintras, and the writer
J.-K. Huysmans, whose work drew strongly on occult themes. These
people were avatars of a set of traditions which are now seen as an
important part of the western heritage and which are gaining
increasing attention in the academy. Christopher McIntosh's vivid
account of this richly fascinating era in the history of occultism
remains as fresh and compelling as ever.
In The Press
"...one of the best English sources of information on this fascinating milieu." — Heathen Harvest
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