THE HISTORY OF MAGIC by Eliphas Levi, translated, with preface and notes by A.E. Waite – 1922 Hardcover Edition

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Published by William Rider & Son, 1922. Second Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxxvi + 536pp. Original gilt decorated royal blue cloth with gilt titles on spine and upper board. Top edge gilt. Frontis piece portrait, 19 b&w plates & illustrations in text. Appendix.

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This classic text is an invaluable source book on the history and practice of magic and occultism. The contents include: Magic of the Magi, Magic in Ancient Greece, the Kabalah, Primitive Symbolism, Mysticism, Oracles, Magical Monuments, Magic and Christianity, Pagan Magic, Kabalistic Paintings and Sacred Emblems, Sorcerers, Magic and Freemasonry, the Illuminati, and more. Illustrated.

A handsome edition of this well-known work. A broad ranging study of magic, which also touches on alchemy and other of the hermetic arts. Eliphas Levi (Alphonse Louis Constant) 1810 – 1875, was of course one of the most important figures of the nineteenth century occult revival, and was claimed by Aleister Crowley as an earlier incarnation of himself. The translator of this work, A. E. Waite was clearly impressed with it, describing it as ‘the most arresting, entertaining and brilliant of all studies on the subject with which I am acquainted.’ (Gilbert B 32a). Cloth very lightly rubbed with a few light scratches to rear board, corners lightly bumped, paper lightly toned, unmarked VG+ copy of this lovely edition

 

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