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	Eliphas Levi
		Eliphas Levi (1810 - 1875) The pseudonym of Alphonse Louis Constant, a French occultist who was largely responsible for the revival of interest in magic in the 19th century.
		Levi studied magic and believed in it but was more of a commentator than and adept, though he did claim to practice necromancy on several occasions.
		Levi undertook an enormous preparation that included two weeks of eating a vegetarian diet and a week of fasting, during which he mediated on Appolonius and imagined having conversations with him.
	www.satanic-kindred.org /eliphas.htm (870 words)

	www.easupernatural.com Ghosts, Occult Studies and the Unexplained (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Levi was going to try and attempt the "evocation of the visible appearance of the spirit of "Apollonuis of Tyana", a 1st century sage.
		Levi was to evoke Apollonius twice more over the coming days, and each time Levi claimed the great sage gave him the answers to many deep philosophical questions, Levi had asked.
		Eliphas Levi had a keen interest in the mysteries surrounding the Knights Templar, and it is he, Levi, who is responsible for the illustration of their most sacred God "Baphomet", we all see and know today.
	www.easupernatural.com /levi.htm (897 words)

	Levi, Eliphas
		Levi remained unconvinced that he conjured Apollonius in that particular ritual, but in other rituals claimed he conjured Apollonius several times.
		Levi also proclaimed a theory of astral light based on his belief in animal magnetism.
		Levi stated he was influenced by an earlier writer and occultist
	www.themystica.com /mystica/articles/l/levi_eliphas.html (845 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Alphonse Louis Constant (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Eliphas Lévi, born Alphonse Louis Constant, (1810-1875) was a French author and magician.
		He had a deep impact on the magick of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and it was largely through this impact that Eliphas Levi is remembered as one of the key founders of the twentieth century revival of magick.
		In Magick in Theory and Practice, Crowley discussed in detail his belief that he was the reincarnation of Eliphas Levi, outlining eight points of evidence, and proposing the case as support for the theory of reincarnation.
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Eliphas_Levi (483 words)

	Eliphas Levi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eliphas Lévi, born Alphonse Louis Constant, (February 8, 1810 - May 31, 1875) was a French occult author and magician.
		"Eliphas Lévi," the name under which he published his books, was his attempt to translate or transliterate his given names "Alphonse Louis" into Hebrew.
		Lévi was the son of a shoemaker in Paris; he attended a seminary and began to study to enter the Roman Catholic priesthood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eliphas_Levi (515 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Eliphas Levi
		Eliphas Lévi, born Alphonse Louis Constant, (February 8, 1810 - May 31, 1875) was a French occult author and magician.
		"Eliphas Lévi," the name under which he published his books, was his attempt to translate or transliterate his given names "Alphonse Louis" into Hebrew.
		Lévi was the son of a shoemaker in Paris; he attended a seminary and began to study to enter the Roman Catholic priesthood.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Eliphas_Levi (536 words)

	Eliphas Levi
		Although Levi studied magic, he was considered to be more of a commentator on the subject than an adept even though he professed to have practiced necromancy several times.
		Levi also proclaimed a theory of astral light based on his belief in animal magnetism.
		Levi stated he was influenced by an earlier writer and occultist Francis Barrettt.
	www.meta-religion.com /Esoterism/Magick/eliphas_levi.htm (894 words)

	ENEMY OF HEAVEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While alive he followed the esoteric path and adopted the Jewish pseudonym of Eliphas Lévi, which he claimed was a Hebrew version of his, own name.
		We see this in an alleged quote of his own words taken from the works of Nesta Webster, who may well have taken it out of context as so many such writers are want to do.
		Eliphas Lévi died on May 31st, 1875 and his books remain in print well over 100 years after his death.
	groups.msn.com /ENEMYOFHEAVEN/eliphaslvi.msnw (1088 words)

	Tarot.com :: Tarot, Astrology, Numerology & I-Ching
		Levi did insert one correction into the ancient pattern of correspondences, but it was subtle and did not change the ancient number/letter connections, only two Arcana that were switched between the last two letter/numbers (see "The Continental Tarots").
		Levi refused to reveal these attributions, rightly enough, as his grade was not high enough, and the time not right.
		And in these few sentences, we can see the device by which all Levi's writings as well as those of his published followers, each scholars in their own right, are called into questionon the "prior historical claim" of the cypher manuscript, which they each knew was a fake as they were writing those foot-notes.
	www.tarot.com /about-tarot/library/essays/english (3610 words)

	Knights Templar \| Eliphas Lévi:The Man Behind Baphomet \| www.templarhistory.com
		Some claim he was thrown out of the Church for his heretical views or as the story goes for "preaching doctrines contrary to the Church." Before his death in 1875 Lévi is said to have reconciled with the Catholic Church and died having received last rites.
		This he felt to be a reference to King Solomon's Temple, which Eliphas believed had the sole purpose of bringing peace to the world.
		Eliphas Lévi died on May 31st, 1875 and his books remain in print well over 100 years after his death.
	www.templarhistory.com /levi.html (1076 words)

	The Realm Of The Occult - Eliphas Levi
		Levi was an active member of the church
		Eliphas and Noemie had a daughter which died at a young age
		Levi went to great lengths to make sure that he was adequately prepared for the mission at hand
	www.geocities.com /white_magick_666/Eliphas.html (379 words)

	Berti8
		Levi was then able to explain the significance of the tarots from a cabbalistic cosmological base, that identified in the Words of God the origin of every visible and invisible element.
		Another important point was that Levi had confirmed that the tarot figures represented the spiritual body of Adam and the first language of Adam on the earth.
		As the figures had been completely changed over the course of the millennium it was necessary, according to Eliphas Levi, to modify them and to return them to their primordial state, that is, to the perfect esoteric language that embraces all of the eastern and western doctrines.
	www.tarotpassages.com /berti8.htm (527 words)

	iPagan: Serving the Pagan, Heathen and Magickal circles. 30/03/2007
		Although Levi studied magic, he was considered to be more of a commentator on the subject than an adept even though he professed to have practiced necromancy (Necromancy being the act of conjuring the dead for divination).
		The imaginative criticism arose from the fact that Levi "believed in the existence of a universal `secret doctrine' of magic throughout history, everywhere in the world." In The Dogma, Levi devoted 22 chapters to the 22 trump cards, or Major Arcana, of the tarot.
		Levi stated he was influenced by an earlier writer and occultist Francis Barrett In turn he influenced another writer and occultist Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton, with whom he visited in London in 1861.
	www.ipagan.co.uk /Eliphas_Levii.asp (1142 words)

	The Key to the Mysteries by Levi
		This, and the extraordinarily subtle and deli cate irony of which Eliphas Levi is one of the greatest masters that has ever l ived, have baffled the pedantry and stupidity of such commentators as Waite.
		This, however, did not prevent Levi from ceremonially casting a papal crown to the g round and crying "Death to tyranny and superstition!" in the bosom of a certain secret Areopagus of which he was the most famous member.
		Levi completely failed to capture Catholicism; and his hope of using Imperia lism, his endeavour to persuade the Emperor that he was the chosen instrument o f the Almighty, a belief which would have enabled him to play Maximus to little Napoleon's Julian, was shattered once for all at Sedan.
	www.joshuah.org /Steps/Articles/KeytotheMysteries.html (21408 words)

	THE ELIPHAS LEVI BAPHOMET DRAWING
		Levi's drawing was an attempt to give form to this idea 600 years after the event.
		Levi's figure has nothing to do with witchcraft for it is based on Judaic and Quabbalistic philosophies which are not the same as the use of the goat in Paganism.
		It is plain that the use of the Goat as a symbol in Paganism the world over is related to its relevance in the day-to-day mundane life of the locality, not to any religious belief in a Devilish deity.
	www.twistedtree.org.uk /baphomet.htm (2708 words)

	Dogma et Ritual: de la Haute Magie by Eliphas Levi , Translated by A.E. Waite (Book) in (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He believed in the existence of a universal 'secret doctrine of magic' that had prevailed throughout history and was evident everywhere in the world.
		Eliphas Levi is the pseudonym of Alphonse Louis Constant, a French occultist and author whose work greatly influenced many of the early revivalists of the 19th century.
		Interestingly Aleister Crowley was born the same year Levi died and later claimed to be his reincarnation.
	www.lulu.com /content/141496 (346 words)

	The Key of the Mysteries
		This, and the extraordinarily subtle and delicate irony of which Eliphas Levi is one of the greatest masters that has ever lived, have baffled the pedantry and stupidity of such commentators as Waite.
		This, however, did not prevent Levi from ceremonially casting a papal crown to the ground and crying "Death to tyranny and superstition!" in the bosom of a certain secret Areopagus of which he was the most famous member.
		Levi completely failed to capture Catholicism; and his hope of using Imperialism, his endeavour to persuade the Emperor that he was the chosen instrument of the Almighty, a belief which would have enabled him to play Maximus to little Napoleon’s Julian, was shattered once for all at Sedan.
	www.rahoorkhuit.net /library/libers/lib_0046.html (20753 words)

	Baphomet - The Chapterhouse Codex
		Baphomet gained new fame with the 19th century mystic Eliphas Lévi, who drew the now infamous image that is often taken for the modern Christian version of Satan.
		According to Levi, Baphomet was symbolic of what he called the Great Magical Agent, which can be defined as the universal life-force.
		The monstrous head of the animal expresses horror of sin, for which the mateial agent, alone responsible, must alone and for ever bear the penalty, because the soul is impassible in its nature and can suffer only by materialising.
	www.icebreaker.net /wiki/index.php/Baphomet (829 words)

	SATAN & THE NEW WORLD ORDER
		The degree of influence that Eliphas Levi had upon Albert Pike is so great that it should make any thinking Freemason pause to consider what he is involved in.
		Eliphas Levi, whose real name was Alphonse Louis Constant, claimed to have summoned up the ghost of Apollonius of Tyana in London in 1854.
		Apollonius of Tyrana, who Eliphas Levi claimed to have summoned from the dead, was one of the earliest historical figures that pagans sought to establish as an anti-christ.
	www.rumormillnews.com /cgi-bin/archive.cgi?read=32699 (955 words)

	Éliphas Lévi and the Kabbalah - Cornerstone Masonic Books
		"Uzzel’s 'Eliphas Levi and the Kabbalah: The Masonic and French Connection of the American Mystery Tradition' was published this month by Cornerstone Books, and has as its theme the correlation of the Victorian teachings of Levi to modern day Freemasonry and other esoteric organizations.
		"'Eliphas Levi’s writings reveal a great deal of relevance for an understanding of various theological, social and political developments during the 20th and 21st centuries,' wrote Uzzel.
		"Uzzel’s evocation of Levi’s world is both biographical and interpretative, giving the reader a portrait of the man behind the beliefs as well as an assessment of his broad impact on the cultural, political and religious tenor of his times.
	www.cornerstonepublishers.com /levi.html (808 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		From: azoth@digex.com Subject: Letters of Eliphas Levi Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1993 19:30:37 GMT Re: Eliphas Levi >> Some of his "unpublished letters" were printed in the Theosophical >> journal _Lucifer_ around the years 1890-1900.
		An English translation of much of Levi's later Qabalistic writing was published by Weiser in 3 volumes in the mid-70's as _The Book of Splendors_, _Mysteries of the Qabala_ and _The Great Secret_.
		Also, don't overlook Chris McIntosh's _Eliphas Levi and the French Occult Revival_, which complements Williams' book in examining the immediate and lasting impression Levi had on 19th Century French occultism.
	www.acc.umu.se /~stradh/magick/Books/eliphas_levi_qbl (186 words)

	Eliphas Levi Notes
		Fauvety (3) and Caubet, who both belonged to the Grand Orient of France, Eliphas Lévi was made a Freemason (4).
		Eliphas Léon Lévi (de son vrai nom Constant): ancien prêtre, ésotériste, rédacteur de rituels de magic; initié le 14 mars 1861, il ne se sent pas au diapason de la loge et, aprês une controverse avec le rationaliste Ganeval, il s'en retire en 1864.
		Eliphas Leon Lévi (his true name is Constant): former priest, esotericist, writer of magic ritual ; initiated on March 14, 1861, he was not in accord with the lodge and after a controversy with the rationalist Ganeval, he resigned in 1864 [ p.
	freemasonry.bcy.ca /biography/esoterica/levi_e/levi_notes.html (1089 words)

	<% Gnostic Forum %>
		The writings of Eliphas Levi are of a completely different style as that of Levi Dowling.
		\"Levi H. Dowling was born on Friday morning, May 18th, 1844 at Bellview, Ohio.
		If you read "Transcedental Magic" by Eliphas Levi, you'll see that it is like a totally other world than "The Aquarian Gospel".
	www.gnosticteachings.org /forum/index.php?showtopic=616 (1415 words)

	Eliphas Levi. Mountain Temple & Order of the Golden Dawn
		Soon enough, Constant was doing his own writing and teaching, as is the pattern in the occult world; at this point he found it necessary to take on a new name and christened himself with the Hebraic name Eliphas Levi.
		While more accessible (easier to understand!) works are available to magicians these days, one cannot ingore the influence that Constant / "Eliphas Levi" had upon occult students of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
		It is safe to say that Aleister Crowley would not have been the magician he came to be without Eliphas Levi's inspiration to guide him.
	home.earthlink.net /~xristos/GoldenDawn/biolevi.htm (443 words)

	So why is 33rd Degree Eliphas Levi conjuring up a demon in this picture? Anyone care to explain? - Above Top Secret ...
		In this Levi picture, we see one candlestick on each side of him; similarly, the church bulletin depicts the candles on each side of a songsheet.
		Three Concurrent Circles: Levi is standing in the middle of a rug on which three circles are painted.
		Levi is standing inside the smaller, inner circle.
	www.abovetopsecret.com /forum/thread161116/pg (2353 words)

	Amazon.com: Key of the Mysteries: Books: Eliphas Levi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Yes, according to Eliphas Levi, it should be the Catholic Church (the true religion), led by the Jesuits, of whom Eliphas Levi is so fond of.
		As the anonymous author of Meditations on the Tarot wrote: `Eliphas Levi - this intrepid magician who evoked Apollonius of Tyana in London - having surpassed the bounds of ceremonial magic concentrated on the mysticism and gnosis of Christian Hermeticism.
		Levi is also notable because, although he could be seen as one of the fathers of the New Age movement, he doesn't have a `New Age politics'.
	www.amazon.com /Key-Mysteries-Eliphas-Levi/dp/0877280789 (2454 words)

	Amazon.ca: History Of Magic: Books: Eliphas Levi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Far from the claim (in a review below) of his "empiricism," Levi does not seem to have been in the least informed by the sciences of his day.
		The book's organization reflects the author's romance with Quaballah, but the chapters themselves are random collections of "ideas" on topics unrelated to the chapter titles [a stream-of-consciousness style the anticipated the great Joyce by half a century, albeit to no effect, aesthetic or otherwise].
		The single high point of the book is Levi's description of spiritual love: "The true man elevates himself not by trying to possess the object of his desire but by raising himself to Her through devotion" [its a pity he didn't know anything about Sufism or the key difference between magic and devotion].
	www.amazon.ca /History-Magic-Eliphas-Levi/dp/0877289298 (420 words)

	ELIPHAS LEVI
		Levi remained unconvinced that he conjured Apollonius in that particular ritual,
		In The Dogma, Levi devoted 22 chapters to the 22 trump cards, or Major Arcana, of the Tarot.
		Levi stated he was influenced by an earlier writer
	lhpriestess.tripod.com /practitionersofthelhpdarktexts/id9.html (661 words)

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