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Demy 8vo, pp. xliii. and 349, with Illustrations, Cloth extra, los. 6J. 



The Mysteries of Magic ; 



A Digest of the Writings of Eliphas Levi. 



WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAY 

 BY ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE. 



CONTENTS: INITIATORY EXERCISES AND PREPARATIONS RELIGIOUS AND PHILOSO- 

 HICAL PROBLEMS AND HYPOTHESES The Hermetic Axiom, Faith The True God The 

 i hrist of God Mysteries of the Logos The True Religion The Reason of Prodigies, or 

 the Devil before Science SCIENTIFIC AND MAGICAL T HEOREMS On Numbers and their 

 Virtues^ Theory of Will Power The Translucid The great Magic Agent, or the 

 Mysteries of the Astral Light Magic Equilibrium The Magic Chain The great Magic 

 Arcanum THE DOCTRINE OF SPIRITUAL ESSENCES, OR KABBALISTIC PNEUMATICS ; WITH 

 THE MYSTERIES OF EVOCATION, NECROMANCY, AND BLACK MAGIC Immortality The 

 Astral Body Unity and Solidarity of Spirits The great Arcanum of Death, or Spiritual 

 Transition, Hierarchy, and Classification of Spirits Fluidic Phantoms and their Mysteries 

 Elementary Spirits and the Ritual of their Conjuration Necromancy Mysteries of the 

 Pentagram and other Pantacles Magical Ceremonial and Consecration of Talismans 

 Black Magjc and the Secrets of the Witches Sabbath Witchcraft and Spells The Key 

 of Mesmerism Modern Spiritualism THE GREAT PRACTICAL SECRETS OR REALISATIONS 

 OF MAGICAL SCIENCE The "Magnum Opus" The Universal Medicine Renewed Youth 

 Transformations Divination Astrology The Tarot, the Book of Hermes, or of Koth 

 Kternal Life, or Profound Peace EPILOGUE SUPPLEMENT The Kabbalah Thaumatur- 

 gical Experiences of Eliphas LeVi Evocation of Apollonius of Tyana Ghosts in Paris 

 J'he Magician and the Medium Eliphas LeVi and the Sect of Eugene Vintras The 

 Magician and the Sorcerer Secret History of the Assassination of the Archbishop of Paris 

 NOTES. 



" Of the many remarkable men who have gained notoriety by their profici- 

 ency, real or imaginary, in the Black Arts, probably none presents a more 

 strange and irreconcileable character than the French magician Alphonse Louis 

 Constant. . . . Better known under the Jewish pseudonym of filiphas 

 Levi Zahed, this enthusiastic student of forbidden art made some stir in 

 France, and even in London. . . . His WORKS ON MAGIC ARE THOSE OF 

 AN UNDOUBTED GENIUS, and divulge a philosophy beautiful in conception, if 



totally opposed to common sense principles There is so great a fund 



of learning and of attractive reasoning in these writings, that Mj: Arthur 

 Edward Waite has published a digest of them for the benefit of English 

 readers. This gentleman has not attempted a literal translation in every 

 case, but has arranged a volume which, while reproducing with sufficient 

 accuracy a great portion of the more interesting works, affords an excellent 

 idea of the scope of the entire literary remains of an enthusiast for whom he 

 entertains a profound admiration. . . . The reader may with profit peruse 

 carefully the learned dissertations penned by M. Constant upon the Hermetic 

 art treated as a religion, a philosophy, and a natural science. ... In view 

 of the remarkable exhibitions of mesmeric influence and thought reading 

 which have been recently given, it is not improbable that the thoughtful 

 reader may find a clue in the writings of this cultured and amiable magician 

 to the secret of many of the manifestations of witchcraft that formerly struck 

 wonder and terror into the hearts of simple folks. . . ." The Morning 

 Post. 



