About this title: This translation of a previously unpublished work by the late Alphonse Louis Constant, or, as he preferred to call himself, Eliphaz Levi, is from the original manuscript which is in the handwriting of Levi himself. Along with Levi's explanation of the Tarot Trumps "the editor has given a short description of each Tarot Trump at the end of each chapter, and also a few notes on the mystical meanings assigned to the Tarots by Levi in his other works." This rare book is a must for students of the Tarot and Kabalah. A mystical insight into the TAROT.
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Description: Brand New. Paperback. Eliphas Levi (1810-1875) was the greatest innovator in the revival of Western occultism, most significantly with his great leap of imagination that linked the Tarot trumps to the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. He proposed this theory in his book Transcendental Magic, but never revealed its magical application. In 1896 Dr. Westcott, creator of the Golden Dawn, translated and printed a secret manuscript-reprinted here-which contains a detailed description of the ritual of ... read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: KESSINGER PUB LLC
Date Published: 1992
ISBN-13:9780922802951ISBN:0922802955
Description: New. This translation of a previously unpublished work by the late Alphonse Louis Constant, or, as he preferred to call himself, Eliphaz Levi, is from the original manuscript which is in the handwriting of Levi himself. Along with Levi's explanation of th... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: George Redway, London
Date Published: 1896
Description: Hardcover. Small 8vo. x +108pp. Original maroon cloth with gilt titling to spine, beveled edges, two toned frontis with tissue guard, eight colored plates. Translated by W. Wynn Westcott from an original manuscript in Levi's handwriting which was written upon pages interleaved with the text of a 1567 printing of De Septum Secundeis by the Abbot Trithemius of Spanheim. The work by Spanheim was a dissertation on the ruling of the world by the seven great Archangels, to each of whom was allotted a ... read more
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