A number of his volumes remain in print, The Book of Ceremonial Magic ( 1911 ), The Holy Kabbalah ( 1929 ), A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry ( 1921 ), and his edited translation of Eliphas Levi's Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual ( 1896 ) among others by Levi, having seen reprints in recent years.

Image: Pentagram ( Levi ). jpg | The occultist and magician Eliphas Levi's pentagram, which he considered to be a symbol of the microcosm, or human.

Eliphas Levi's Tetragrammaton pentagram, which he considered to be a symbol of the Macrocosm and microcosm | microcosm, or human being.

Letters indicated that he was " tamper ... with the science vulgarly known as Black Magic ", and to his former tutor Colin Taylor, Heseltine enthused about " the most illuminating and altogether wonderful book I have ever read "; this was Eliphas Levi's History of Transcendental Magic, which includes procedures for the invocation of demons.

The Baphomet, from Eliphas Levi's " Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie ", 1854, adopted symbol of some " Left-Hand Path " life stance | belief systems.

The Tarot Devil card is derived in part from Eliphas Levi's famous illustration " Baphomet " in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie ( 1855 ).

The 19th century image of a Sabbatic Goat, created by Eliphas Levi | Eliphas Lévi.

The 19th century image of a Sabbatic Goat, created by Eliphas Levi | Eliphas Lévi.

In 1854, Eliphas Lévi published Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (" Dogmas and Rituals of High Magic "), in which he included an image he had drawn himself which he described as Baphomet and " The Sabbatic Goat ", showing a winged humanoid goat with a pair of breasts and a torch on its head between its horns ( illustration, top ).

Eliphas Lévi | Lévi's Baphomet image employed in the later 19th century to suggest Baphomet worship by Freemasonry | Freemasons.

Presumably following Herodotus ' description, the occultist Eliphas Levi in his Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie ( 1855 ) called his goat-headed conception of Baphomet the " Baphomet of Mendes ", thus popularizing and perpetuating this incorrect attribution, which has given rise to a flood of spurious connections, such as " The Goat of Mendes " by the blackened death metal band Akercocke.

" Eliphas Levi ", the name under which he published his books, was his attempt to translate or transliterate his given names " Alphonse Louis " into Hebrew although he was not Jewish.

She then cursed Eliphas for his perceived betrayal with an eternal life of torture, transforming him into a vampire-like creature.

This idea of the Pentagrammaton was funneled into modern occultism by 19th-century French writer Eliphas Levi and the influential late 19th-century Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

Encausse's early readings in tarot and the lore of the Kabbalah in translation was inspired by the occult writings of Eliphas Lévi, whose translation of the " Nuctemeron of Apollonius of Tyana " printed as a supplement to Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie ( 1855 ), provided Encausse with his nom de plume: " Papus " means " physician.

She approached Eliphas, a well-respected senator whose wife had left him for a general named Mascius.

Eliphas was buried alive for 700 years until a farmer discovered him in his field.

In his book Transcendental Magic, Eliphas Levi wrote: " The Azoth or Universal Medicine is, for the soul, is supreme reason and absolute justice ; for the mind, it is mathematical and practical truth ; for the body it is the quintessence, which is a combination of gold and light.

Eliphas Levi ( 1810 – 1875 ), one of the first modern ceremonial magicians and inspiration for the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, discussed the Great Work at length, expanding it from the purely alchemical towards the more spiritual:

" Rose advocated the study of what he called thaumaturgical laws as a means to protect oneself from unseen influences, for anyone who would explore the dimensions of consciousness (" the mind dimension "), referring to texts by Eliphas Levi and others.

Eliphas, having at some point in time changed his name to " Eli Bard ," finally locates Selene in Nova Roma, where she is worshiped as a god.

The corresponding noun " esotericism " was coined in French by Jacques Matter in 1828 and popularized by Eliphas Levi in the 1850s.

Influences on Golden Dawn concepts and work include: Christian mysticism, Qabalah, Hermeticism, the religion of Ancient Egypt, Theurgy, Freemasonry, Alchemy, Theosophy, Eliphas Levi, Papus, Enochian magic, and Renaissance grimoires.

Extract from Chapter XVI, Witchcraft and Spells: Transcendental Magic its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Levi.

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, authors such as Godfrey Higgins and the esotericists Eliphas Levi, Helena Blavatsky, and George Gurdjieff articulated specific histories, cosmologies, and some of the basic philosophical principles that would influence the movement.

Guenon points out that Blavatsky spent a long time visiting a library at New York where she had easy access to the works of Jacob Boehme, Eliphas Levi, the Kabbala and other Hermetic treatises.

* May 31 – Eliphas Lévi, French occult author and magician ( b. 1810 )

For instance Alphonse Louis Constant wrote under the name Eliphas Levi, William Wynn Westcott wrote under Frater Sapere Aude, and Aleister Crowley wrote under the name Frater Perdurabo.

The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Aleister Crowley's Thelema and their subsequent offshoots, influenced by Eliphas Levi, are most commonly associated with the resurgence of magical tradition in the English speaking world of the 20th century.

The original members were: Eliphas Burnham, George Snodgrass, John F. Sabine, William Porter, Tobias Beightler, Abraham Amrine, Samuel Reed, Ray G. Morse, Josiah Westlake, Josiah Reed, William.

The symbols used were influenced by the 19th century magician and occultist Eliphas Levi.

Hermetic magic underwent a nineteenth century revival in Western Europe, where it was practiced by people and within groups such as the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, Aurum Solis, Ragon, Kenneth M. Mackenzie, Eliphas Lévi, Frederick Hockley, William Butler Yeats, and Arthur Machen.

' His source is the " Abbé Constant ", which is to say, Alphonse-Louis Constant, the real name of Eliphas Lévi.

However, the influential writer Eliphas Levi called it evil whenever the symbol appeared the other way up.

The article began, " She goes barefooted when she feels like it, wears Levi's to class because they're more comfortable, and carries her Autoharp with her everywhere she goes so that in case she gets the urge to break into song it will be handy.

More recently much of Futura's artwork has evolved into the production of highly collectible toys, Sneakers ; and a diverse range of creative media, working with Recon, Nike, The North Face, Medicom Toy, Undercover, Supreme, Levi's and A Bathing Ape.

Liefeld was subsequently interviewed by Stan Lee in the second episode of the 1991 documentary series The Comic Book Greats, in which he discussed how he broke into the industry, demonstrated his drawing technique, and talked about his Levi's commercial.

Levi's lucid, non-ideological and sympathetic description of the daily hardships experienced by the local peasants helped to propel the " Problem of the South " into national discourse after the end of the World War II.

Levi's early time in Paris, as a painter and as a student of medicine, brought him into contact with many notable personalities of the 20th century, including Sergei Prokofiev, Igor Stravinsky, Alberto Moravia, Giorgio de Chirico, and others.

He then puts one of Levi's plans into action and confronts the dragon using a makeshift spear that Levi had constructed in his garage.

The other, based on the same exegesis, " described Levi's actual initiation into the priesthood by angels ".

Donellan is based on the character Levi's entry into Saturn Return, and how it impacts his life path.