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(1896) is a translation by William Wynn Westcott, co-founder of the 'Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn', of an unpublished French manuscript by Levi, then owned by the spiritualist Edward Maitland. It includes eight of the author's drawings. Each short chapter outlines the meaning of one of the twenty-two tarot trumps and is followed by a brief...
Eliphas Levi, born Alphonse Louis Constant, (1810 75) was instrumental in the revival of Western occultism in the nineteenth century, and published se...