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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Alphonse Louis Constant''' (February 8, 1810 – May 31, 1875), who wrote later in his life under the pen-name '''Éliphas Lévi''', was a French author and would become one of the most important esoteric writers of all time. His most famous books, ''Dogme et rituel de la haute magie'', ''Histoire de la magie'', and ''La clef des grands mystères'' are considered to be the founding works of [[occultism]]. They would go on to inspire a number of key esotericists, among them [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]. </div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Alphonse Louis Constant''' (February 8, 1810 – May 31, 1875), who wrote later in his life under the pen-name '''Éliphas Lévi''', was a French author and would become one of the most important esoteric writers of all time. His most famous books, ''Dogme et rituel de la haute magie'', ''Histoire de la magie'', and ''La clef des grands mystères'' are considered to be the founding works of [[occultism]]. They would go on to inspire a number of key esotericists, among them [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky]]. </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Constant's theory and history of [[magic]], his interpretation of the [[Kabbalah]] and the [[Tarot]], as well as his emblematic drawings like the “Baphomet,” remain highly influential. <ref>Strube, Julian. Socialist religion and the emergence of occultism: a genealogical approach to socialism and secularization in 19th-century France. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0048721X.2016.1146926. Accessed on 11/12/2018.</ref> His influence is apparent in the work and thought of figures as diverse as [[Papus]] (founder of the modern <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Martinism|</del>Martinist Order<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </del>and former Theosophist), A.E. Waite (co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck), [[William Wynn Westcott|W. Wynn Westcott]] (from the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]]); and Aleister Crowley (English occultist). His notion of the all-pervading [[astral light]] was adopted by H.P.B. and used in her writings.<ref>Bristol, R.A. Gilbert. Preface to ''The Great Secret of Occultism Unveiled'' by Éliphas Lévi. Weiser Books sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC. 2000.</ref> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Constant's theory and history of [[magic]], his interpretation of the [[Kabbalah]] and the [[Tarot]], as well as his emblematic drawings like the “Baphomet,” remain highly influential. <ref>Strube, Julian. Socialist religion and the emergence of occultism: a genealogical approach to socialism and secularization in 19th-century France. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0048721X.2016.1146926. Accessed on 11/12/2018.</ref> His influence is apparent in the work and thought of figures as diverse as [[Papus]] (founder of the modern Martinist Order and former Theosophist), A.E. Waite (co-creator of the Rider-Waite Tarot deck), [[William Wynn Westcott|W. Wynn Westcott]] (from the [[Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn]]); and Aleister Crowley (English occultist). His notion of the all-pervading [[astral light]] was adopted by H.P.B. and used in her writings.<ref>Bristol, R.A. Gilbert. Preface to ''The Great Secret of Occultism Unveiled'' by Éliphas Lévi. Weiser Books sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC. 2000.</ref> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Alphonse Louis Constant was the son of a poor shoemaker in Paris and was known as "the clever lad." His parish priest singled Constant out as a boy of promise and enrolled him in a small school that he had set up and at the age of fifteen Constant went on to the "little seminary" of Saint Nicholas de Chardonnet where he fell under the influence of his first important teacher, the abbé Frére-Colonna, a man whom he later called "the most intelligent and sincerely pious priest I have ever known". <ref>Williams, A. Thomas. ''Eliphas Levi: Master of Occultism.'' The University of Alabama Press, 1975. Page 8</ref> Then the curé of his parish obtained a free education for him at the Seminary of St. Sulpice. He became a good Latin, Greek and Hebrew scholar and wanted to become a priest. <ref>Unpublished Letters of Éliphas Levi (1) from ''Lucifer'' 1887-1897. London, HP Blavatsky. Year 1894, v 14, March, page 51.</ref> In 1836, shortly before he was ordained, he was forced to leave the Seminary. Some scholars stated due to a love affair <ref>Strube, Julian (2016), Sozialismus, Katholizismus und Okkultismus im Frankreich des 19. Jahrhundert: Die Genealogie der Schriften von Eliphas Lévi. Walter de Gruyter Gmbh & Co. Chapter 1.1.1. – Kindle edition</ref>, others for falling in love with a young girl and realizing that he couldn't take his vows before the altar without remorse. <ref>Williams, A. Thomas. ''Eliphas Levi: Master of Occultism.'' The University of Alabama Press, 1975. Page 13</ref><ref>McIntosh, Christopher. Eliphas Lévi and the French Occult Revival. Rider and Company, London. 1972. Page 82.</ref>One of the reasons his mother might have committed suicide was because of this decision. For several years after that he socialized with a circle of friends, young Bohemians, a heterogeneous group of artists and socialists. His attempt to return to clerical life in 1839 by joining a Dominican monastery did not work out due to conflicts and he was desperately looking for a new perspective. He felt hope when he was offered a teaching position in Juilly but was only allowed to do the lowest kind of jobs and was treated badly. He felt despair and wrote during that time secretly the infamous '''''Bible de la liberté''''' [Bible of Freedom] which was published on February 13th, 1841. It was confiscated within an hour of publication but only after numerous copies were successfully distributed. He was arrested in April 1941 and convicted to 8 months in prison on May 11th after showing no remorse. The trial made him instantly famous in and outside of the country. ''The Bible de la liberté'' was the first of many publications with which Constant distinguished himself in the 1840s as one of the most sensational representatives of Christian Revolutionary Socialism. His role model was the priest Félicité de Lamennais, the founder of the so-called Neo-Catholicism.<ref>Strube, Julian (2016), ''Sozialismus, Katholizismus und Okkultismus im Frankreich des 19. Jahrhundert: Die Genealogie der Schriften von Eliphas Lévi''. Walter de Gruyter Gmbh & Co. Chapter 1.1.1. – Kindle edition.</ref> The young and enthusiastic Neo-Catholics wanted to reconcile Catholicism with post-revolutionary society, by establishing a liberal, progressive, and social Catholicism that sought to actively engage with contemporary philosophical, political, and scientific discourses. The Neo-Catholics achieved a public breakthrough in 1830 with their journal ''L'Avenir''. However, the movement was swiftly and violently crushed soon after.<ref>Strube, Julian. ''Socialist religion and the emergence of occultism: a genealogical approach to socialism and secularization in 19th-century France''. From [[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0048721X.2016.1146926 TandFOnline]. Accessed on 11/12/2018.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Alphonse Louis Constant was the son of a poor shoemaker in Paris and was known as "the clever lad." His parish priest singled Constant out as a boy of promise and enrolled him in a small school that he had set up and at the age of fifteen Constant went on to the "little seminary" of Saint Nicholas de Chardonnet where he fell under the influence of his first important teacher, the abbé Frére-Colonna, a man whom he later called "the most intelligent and sincerely pious priest I have ever known". <ref>Williams, A. Thomas. ''Eliphas Levi: Master of Occultism.'' The University of Alabama Press, 1975. Page 8</ref> Then the curé of his parish obtained a free education for him at the Seminary of St. Sulpice. He became a good Latin, Greek and Hebrew scholar and wanted to become a priest. <ref>Unpublished Letters of Éliphas Levi (1) from ''Lucifer'' 1887-1897. London, HP Blavatsky. Year 1894, v 14, March, page 51.</ref> In 1836, shortly before he was ordained, he was forced to leave the Seminary. Some scholars stated due to a love affair <ref>Strube, Julian (2016), Sozialismus, Katholizismus und Okkultismus im Frankreich des 19. Jahrhundert: Die Genealogie der Schriften von Eliphas Lévi. Walter de Gruyter Gmbh & Co. Chapter 1.1.1. – Kindle edition</ref>, others for falling in love with a young girl and realizing that he couldn't take his vows before the altar without remorse. <ref>Williams, A. Thomas. ''Eliphas Levi: Master of Occultism.'' The University of Alabama Press, 1975. Page 13</ref><ref>McIntosh, Christopher. Eliphas Lévi and the French Occult Revival. Rider and Company, London. 1972. Page 82.</ref>One of the reasons his mother might have committed suicide was because of this decision. For several years after that he socialized with a circle of friends, young Bohemians, a heterogeneous group of artists and socialists. His attempt to return to clerical life in 1839 by joining a Dominican monastery did not work out due to conflicts and he was desperately looking for a new perspective. He felt hope when he was offered a teaching position in Juilly but was only allowed to do the lowest kind of jobs and was treated badly. He felt despair and wrote during that time secretly the infamous '''''Bible de la liberté''''' [Bible of Freedom] which was published on February 13th, 1841. It was confiscated within an hour of publication but only after numerous copies were successfully distributed. He was arrested in April 1941 and convicted to 8 months in prison on May 11th after showing no remorse. The trial made him instantly famous in and outside of the country. ''The Bible de la liberté'' was the first of many publications with which Constant distinguished himself in the 1840s as one of the most sensational representatives of Christian Revolutionary Socialism. His role model was the priest Félicité de Lamennais, the founder of the so-called Neo-Catholicism.<ref>Strube, Julian (2016), ''Sozialismus, Katholizismus und Okkultismus im Frankreich des 19. Jahrhundert: Die Genealogie der Schriften von Eliphas Lévi''. Walter de Gruyter Gmbh & Co. Chapter 1.1.1. – Kindle edition.</ref> The young and enthusiastic Neo-Catholics wanted to reconcile Catholicism with post-revolutionary society, by establishing a liberal, progressive, and social Catholicism that sought to actively engage with contemporary philosophical, political, and scientific discourses. The Neo-Catholics achieved a public breakthrough in 1830 with their journal ''L'Avenir''. However, the movement was swiftly and violently crushed soon after.<ref>Strube, Julian. ''Socialist religion and the emergence of occultism: a genealogical approach to socialism and secularization in 19th-century France''. From [[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0048721X.2016.1146926 TandFOnline]. Accessed on 11/12/2018.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The influence of Éliphas Lévi upon [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|H.P.B.]] was significant. Her work [[Isis Unveiled (book)|''Isis Unveiled'']] (1877) is indebted to Lévi’s ideas on the [[Kabbalah]], and especially to his notion of the all-pervading [[Astral Light]]. <ref>Bristol, R.A. Gilbert. In the Preface of ''The Great Secret of Occultism Unveiled'' by Eliphas Lévi. Weiser Books sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC. 2000</ref> Masters [[Morya|M]] and [[Koot Hoomi|KH]] frequently referred to his writings and indicated that there was much of value in them if one had the right key to understanding. <ref> George E. Linton and Virginia Hanson, eds., Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett (Adyar, Chennai, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972), 237-238.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The influence of Éliphas Lévi upon [[Helena Petrovna Blavatsky|H.P.B.]] was significant. Her work [[Isis Unveiled (book)|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''</ins>''Isis Unveiled<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''</ins>'']] (1877) is indebted to Lévi’s ideas on the [[Kabbalah]], and especially to his notion of the all-pervading <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''</ins>[[Astral Light]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'''</ins>. <ref>Bristol, R.A. Gilbert. In the Preface of ''The Great Secret of Occultism Unveiled'' by Eliphas Lévi. Weiser Books sold by Amazon Digital Services LLC. 2000<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.</ins></ref> Masters [[Morya|M]] and [[Koot Hoomi|KH]] frequently referred to his writings and indicated that there was much of value in them if one had the right key to understanding. <ref>George E. Linton and Virginia Hanson, eds., <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>Readers Guide to The Mahatma Letters to A. P. Sinnett<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'' </ins>(Adyar, Chennai, India: Theosophical Publishing House, 1972), 237-238.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>She was of the opinion that Éliphas Lévi "was undoubtedly a great occultist"<ref><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Blavatsky’s Collective </del>Writings, Volume 6, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">page </del>180. Accessed at [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v6/y1884_021.htm Katinkahesselink.net] on 12/26/2018.</ref> and referred to him when writing about the astral light <ref><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Blavatsky’s Collective </del>Writings, Volume 13, page 241. Accessed at [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v13/ph_007.htm Katinkahesselink.net] on 12/26/2018.</ref> When his article on “Death” was published in [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], it was accompanied by a note which said: </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>She was of the opinion that Éliphas Lévi "was undoubtedly a great occultist"<ref><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">H. P Blavatsky, ''Blavatsky Collected </ins>Writings<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>, Volume 6, 180. Accessed at [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v6/y1884_021.htm Katinkahesselink.net] on 12/26/2018.</ref> and referred to him when writing about the astral light <ref><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">H. P Blavatsky, ''Blavatsky Collected </ins>Writings<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>, Volume 13, page 241. Accessed at [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v13/ph_007.htm Katinkahesselink.net] on 12/26/2018.</ref> When his article on “Death” was published in [[The Theosophist (periodical)|''The Theosophist'']], it was accompanied by a note which said: </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>The late Éliphas Lévi was the most learned Kabalist and Occultist of our age, and everything from his pen is precious to us insofar as it helps to compare notes with the Eastern Occult doctrines, and by the light thrown upon both to prove to the world that the two systems . . . are one in their principal metaphysical tenets.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. III (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1995), 288.</ref></blockquote></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>The late Éliphas Lévi was the most learned Kabalist and Occultist of our age, and everything from his pen is precious to us insofar as it helps to compare notes with the Eastern Occult doctrines, and by the light thrown upon both to prove to the world that the two systems . . . are one in their principal metaphysical tenets.<ref>Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, ''Collected Writings'' vol. III (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1995), 288.</ref></blockquote></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Even though she referenced and praised him often, she criticized him as well. When reading her articles, we learn that she considered his language “rather too rhapsodically rhetorical to be sufficiently clear to the beginner” in regard to some of the unpublished manuscripts she had read <ref><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Blavatsky’s Collective </del>Writings, Volume 14, page 233. Accessed at [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v14/ph_059.htm Katinkahesselink.net] on 12/26/2018.</ref>; that his “teaching does not embrace the Occult Cosmogony, but deals simply with Occult Geology and the formation of our cosmic speck” <ref><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Blavatsky’s Collective </del>Writings, Volume 14, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">page </del>234. Accessed at [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v14/ph_059.htm Katinkahesselink.net]] on 12/26/2018.</ref>; that she had a different opinion when it came to certain aspects of his statements about the Kabbalah<ref><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Blavatsky’s Collective </del>Writings, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Volume 14, page </del>237. Accessed at [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v14/ph_059.htm Katinkahesselink.net] on 12/26/2018.</ref>; and that she stressed that “the philosophy which Éliphas Lévi gives out as Kabalistic is simply mystical Roman Catholicism adapted to the Christian Kabbalah”. <ref><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Blavatsky’s Collective </del>Writings, Volume 14, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">page </del>239. Accessed at [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v14/ph_059.htm Katinkahesselink.net] on 12/26/2018.</ref> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Even though she referenced and praised him often, she criticized him as well. When reading her articles, we learn that she considered his language “rather too rhapsodically rhetorical to be sufficiently clear to the beginner” in regard to some of the unpublished manuscripts she had read <ref><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">H. P Blavatsky, ''Blavatsky Collected </ins>Writings<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>, Volume 14, page 233. Accessed at [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v14/ph_059.htm Katinkahesselink.net] on 12/26/2018.</ref>; that his “teaching does not embrace the Occult Cosmogony, but deals simply with Occult Geology and the formation of our cosmic speck” <ref><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">H. P Blavatsky, ''Blavatsky Collected </ins>Writings<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>, Volume 14, 234. Accessed at [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v14/ph_059.htm Katinkahesselink.net]] on 12/26/2018.</ref>; that she had a different opinion when it came to certain aspects of his statements about the Kabbalah<ref><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">H. P Blavatsky, ''Blavatsky Collected </ins>Writings<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>, 237. Accessed at [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v14/ph_059.htm Katinkahesselink.net] on 12/26/2018.</ref>; and that she stressed that “the philosophy which Éliphas Lévi gives out as Kabalistic is simply mystical Roman Catholicism adapted to the Christian Kabbalah”.<ref><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">H. P Blavatsky, ''Blavatsky Collected </ins>Writings<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">''</ins>, Volume 14, 239. Accessed at [http://www.katinkahesselink.net/blavatsky/articles/v14/ph_059.htm Katinkahesselink.net] on 12/26/2018.</ref> </div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In one of her articles she noted that “he died, as his famous predecessors in the occult arts, [[Cornelius Agrippa]] and [[Paracelsus]], a pauper”<ref>The Theosophist, Vol. II, No. 10, July 1881, p. 211</ref> and stated “though we do not personally agree with all his views, we do concur in the verdict of the world of letters that Éliphas Lévi was one of the cleverest, most learned, and interesting of writers”. In another article she explains that ”though personally we are far from agreeing with all his opinions – for having been a priest, Éliphas Lévi could never rid himself to his last day of a certain theological bias – we are yet prepared to always lend a respectful ear to the teachings of so learned a Kabbalist.<ref>''The Theosophist'', Vol. II, No. 10, July 1881, p. 212</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In one of her articles she noted that “he died, as his famous predecessors in the occult arts, [[Cornelius Agrippa]] and [[Paracelsus]], a pauper”<ref>The Theosophist, Vol. II, No. 10, July 1881, p. 211</ref> and stated “though we do not personally agree with all his views, we do concur in the verdict of the world of letters that Éliphas Lévi was one of the cleverest, most learned, and interesting of writers”. In another article she explains that ”though personally we are far from agreeing with all his opinions – for having been a priest, Éliphas Lévi could never rid himself to his last day of a certain theological bias – we are yet prepared to always lend a respectful ear to the teachings of so learned a Kabbalist.<ref>''The Theosophist'', Vol. II, No. 10, July 1881, p. 212</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>”I found in him what I have never met in any other individual since – a profound knowledge on occult subjects; I believe there was not a book on mysticism that he had not read. He had a wonderful memory and a marvelous flow of language, his expressions and illustrations being of the choicest and rarest character. One could sit for hours listening to his eloquent discourses on the occult side of nature. With all these wonderful gifts he combined a benevolent, noble, and truthful nature. Never did I leave his presence without feeling that my own nature had been uplifted to nobler and better things, and I look upon Éliphas Lévi as one of the truest friends I ever had, for he taught me the highest truth which is in the power of man or woman to grasp.”<ref>Mary Gebhard, "Personal Recollections of Eliphas Lévi " ''The Theosophist'' Vol. VII, No. 76, January 1886, page 241. Accessed at [https://theosophy.world/sites/default/files/Theosophical%20Publications/The%20Theosophist/1886/the_theosophist_vol_7_jan_1886.pdf Theosophy World]</ref></blockquote></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><blockquote>”I found in him what I have never met in any other individual since – a profound knowledge on occult subjects; I believe there was not a book on mysticism that he had not read. He had a wonderful memory and a marvelous flow of language, his expressions and illustrations being of the choicest and rarest character. One could sit for hours listening to his eloquent discourses on the occult side of nature. With all these wonderful gifts he combined a benevolent, noble, and truthful nature. Never did I leave his presence without feeling that my own nature had been uplifted to nobler and better things, and I look upon Éliphas Lévi as one of the truest friends I ever had, for he taught me the highest truth which is in the power of man or woman to grasp.”<ref>Mary Gebhard, "Personal Recollections of Eliphas Lévi" ''The Theosophist'' Vol. VII, No. 76, January 1886, page 241. Accessed at [https://theosophy.world/sites/default/files/Theosophical%20Publications/The%20Theosophist/1886/the_theosophist_vol_7_jan_1886.pdf Theosophy World]</ref></blockquote></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Some of the unpublished writings on occult sciences by Éliphas Lévi were published in ''The Theosophist'' between February 1884 and November 1884 as “The Veil of the Temple Rent” and “Stray Thoughts” appeared in December 1884. These are the titles:</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Some of the unpublished writings on occult sciences by Éliphas Lévi were published in ''The Theosophist'' between February 1884 and November 1884 as “The Veil of the Temple Rent” and “Stray Thoughts” appeared in December 1884. These are the titles:</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"><br>Since 1856, the name Baphomet - a deity that the Knights Templar were falsely accused of worshipping - has been associated with a "Sabbatic Goat" image drawn by Éliphas Lévi which contains binary elements representing the '''"sum total of the universe"'''. Originally a sacred goat in the Egyptian city of Mendes, the Goat of Mendes was conflated by later occult writers with the Christian devil, Baphomet.<ref> Lévi, Éliphas. The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic. (2017) Penguin Random House LLC. New York, N.Y. page 10n30</ref>. Lévi mentioned Baphomet often in his works, especially in the ''Doctrine'' and ''Ritual of High Magic''. <ref> Lévi, Éliphas. The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic. (2017) Penguin Random House LLC. New York, N.Y. pages 10, 15, 172, 251, 315-324, 368 </ref>Lévi's depiction of Baphomet is similar to that of The Devil in early Tarot. <ref> Lévi, Éliphas. The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic. (2017) Penguin Random House LLC. New York, N.Y. page 316</ref></br></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It has been recently argued that Baphomet should be seen as more than a symbolization of Lévi’s magical theory. Éliphas Lévi, as one of many socialists who had been disillusioned by the failed revolution of 1848, developed his occultism in distinct opposition to “false” socialism and “false” Catholicism, the two constant points of reference in his writings, which consequently functioned as his main identity markers. The monstrous figure of the Baphomet is an embodiment of all those aspects: the final synthesis of science, religion, philosophy, and politics, which would be realized through the progressive decryption of the tradition of “true” religion and the creation of the Kingdom of God on Earth.<ref>Strube, Julian. ''The “Baphomet” of Eliphas Lévi: Its Meaning and Historical Context''. Correspondences 4 (2016) 37–79. correspondencesjournal.com.</ref></br></del></div></td><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-added"></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Since 1856, the name Baphomet - a deity that the Knights Templar were falsely accused of worshipping - has been associated with a "Sabbatic Goat" image drawn by Éliphas Lévi which contains binary elements representing the '''"sum total of the universe"'''. Originally a sacred goat in the Egyptian city of Mendes, the Goat of Mendes was conflated by later occult writers with the Christian devil, Baphomet.<ref> Lévi, Éliphas. The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic. (2017) Penguin Random House LLC. New York, N.Y. page 10n30.</ref>. Lévi mentioned Baphomet often in his works, especially in the ''Doctrine'' and ''Ritual of High Magic''. <ref> Lévi, Éliphas. ''The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic''. (2017) Penguin Random House LLC. New York, N.Y. pages 10, 15, 172, 251, 315-324, 368.</ref>Lévi's depiction of Baphomet is similar to that of The Devil in early Tarot. <ref> Lévi, Éliphas. ''The Doctrine and Ritual of High Magic''. (2017) Penguin Random House LLC. New York, N.Y. page 316.</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">It has been recently argued that Baphomet should be seen as more than a symbolization of Lévi’s magical theory. Éliphas Lévi, as one of many socialists who had been disillusioned by the failed revolution of 1848, developed his occultism in distinct opposition to “false” socialism and “false” Catholicism, the two constant points of reference in his writings, which consequently functioned as his main identity markers. The monstrous figure of the Baphomet is an embodiment of all those aspects: the final synthesis of science, religion, philosophy, and politics, which would be realized through the progressive decryption of the tradition of “true” religion and the creation of the Kingdom of God on Earth.<ref>Strube, Julian. ''The “Baphomet” of Eliphas Lévi: Its Meaning and Historical Context''. Correspondences 4 (2016) 37–79. Accessed in [correspondencesjournal.com correspondencesjournal.com].</ref></ins></div></td></tr>
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</table>SysopJhttps://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?title=%C3%89liphas_L%C3%A9vi_Zahed&diff=40524&oldid=prevSusanne Hoepfl-Wellenhofer at 23:36, 21 November 20192019-11-21T23:36:06Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Lévi associated - with reference to Paracelsus - the astral light, which surrounds us, with the existence of man right after [[death]]. The immortal soul rises at death and the astral body continues to live a bit longer in the astral sphere where everyone encounters his own heaven or hell. Those who were guided all their life by lower instincts will experience an unbearable fear of death, the others will move like fish in water: They had already been able to control the astral light during their life. <ref>Hauf, Monika (2016). ''Kompendium der Magie und des Okkultismus''. Bohmeier Verlag, Leipzig, Germany; pages 150-151.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Lévi associated - with reference to Paracelsus - the astral light, which surrounds us, with the existence of man right after [[death]]. The immortal soul rises at death and the astral body continues to live a bit longer in the astral sphere where everyone encounters his own heaven or hell. Those who were guided all their life by lower instincts will experience an unbearable fear of death, the others will move like fish in water: They had already been able to control the astral light during their life. <ref>Hauf, Monika (2016). ''Kompendium der Magie und des Okkultismus''. Bohmeier Verlag, Leipzig, Germany; pages 150-151.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the ''Dogma'' Éliphas Lévi describes the astral light as a blind, amoral, universal force that sweeps all before it in a perpetual and restless search fo equilibrium. He wrote that the ancients knew this force: that it consists in a universal agent whose supreme law is equilibrium and whose direction is directly related to the great arcanum of transcendental magic. Through the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">use </del>use of this agent one can change the very order of the seasons, produce the phenomenon of the day in the middle of the night, enter instantaneously into contacts with the farthest ends of the earth, see events on the other side of the world..., heal or attack at a distance. This agent... is nothing other than the first matter of the great work of the medieval adepts. He further writes that the astral light can be used for good or evil and it is a kind of universal record keeper that registers all of our desires, intentions, and acts. It is also a kind of physical electrolyte that permits influences from one psychic source to act upon another. <ref>Williams, A. Thomas. Eliphas Levi: Master of Occultism. The University of Alabama Press, 1975. Pages 101 - 103</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the ''Dogma'' Éliphas Lévi describes the astral light as a blind, amoral, universal force that sweeps all before it in a perpetual and restless search fo equilibrium. He wrote that the ancients knew this force: that it consists in a universal agent whose supreme law is equilibrium and whose direction is directly related to the great arcanum of transcendental magic. Through the use of this agent one can change the very order of the seasons, produce the phenomenon of the day in the middle of the night, enter instantaneously into contacts with the farthest ends of the earth, see events on the other side of the world..., heal or attack at a distance. This agent... is nothing other than the first matter of the great work of the medieval adepts. He further writes that the astral light can be used for good or evil and it is a kind of universal record keeper that registers all of our desires, intentions, and acts. It is also a kind of physical electrolyte that permits influences from one psychic source to act upon another. <ref>Williams, A. Thomas. Eliphas Levi: Master of Occultism. The University of Alabama Press, 1975. Pages 101 - 103</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Lévi associated - with reference to Paracelsus - the astral light, which surrounds us, with the existence of man right after [[death]]. The immortal soul rises at death and the astral body continues to live a bit longer in the astral sphere where everyone encounters his own heaven or hell. Those who were guided all their life by lower instincts will experience an unbearable fear of death, the others will move like fish in water: They had already been able to control the astral light during their life. <ref>Hauf, Monika (2016). ''Kompendium der Magie und des Okkultismus''. Bohmeier Verlag, Leipzig, Germany; pages 150-151.</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Lévi associated - with reference to Paracelsus - the astral light, which surrounds us, with the existence of man right after [[death]]. The immortal soul rises at death and the astral body continues to live a bit longer in the astral sphere where everyone encounters his own heaven or hell. Those who were guided all their life by lower instincts will experience an unbearable fear of death, the others will move like fish in water: They had already been able to control the astral light during their life. <ref>Hauf, Monika (2016). ''Kompendium der Magie und des Okkultismus''. Bohmeier Verlag, Leipzig, Germany; pages 150-151.</ref></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the ''Dogma'' Éliphas Lévi describes the astral light as a blind, amoral, universal force that sweeps all before it in a perpetual and restless search fo equilibrium. He wrote that the ancients knew this force<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>that <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is consist </del>in a universal agent whose supreme law is equilibrium and whose direction is directly related to the great arcanum of transcendental magic. Through the use use of this agent one can change the very order of the seasons, produce the phenomenon of the day in the middle of the night, enter instantaneously into contacts with the farthest ends of the earth, see events on the other side of the world..., heal or attack at a distance. This agent... is nothing other than the first matter of the great work of the medieval adepts. He further writes that the astral light can be used for good or evil and it is a kind of universal record keeper that registers all of our desires, intentions, and acts. It is also a kind of physical electrolyte that permits influences from one psychic source to act upon another. <ref>Williams, A. Thomas. Eliphas Levi: Master of Occultism. The University of Alabama Press, 1975. Pages 101 - 103</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In the ''Dogma'' Éliphas Lévi describes the astral light as a blind, amoral, universal force that sweeps all before it in a perpetual and restless search fo equilibrium. He wrote that the ancients knew this force<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">: </ins>that <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">it consists </ins>in a universal agent whose supreme law is equilibrium and whose direction is directly related to the great arcanum of transcendental magic. Through the use use of this agent one can change the very order of the seasons, produce the phenomenon of the day in the middle of the night, enter instantaneously into contacts with the farthest ends of the earth, see events on the other side of the world..., heal or attack at a distance. This agent... is nothing other than the first matter of the great work of the medieval adepts. He further writes that the astral light can be used for good or evil and it is a kind of universal record keeper that registers all of our desires, intentions, and acts. It is also a kind of physical electrolyte that permits influences from one psychic source to act upon another. <ref>Williams, A. Thomas. Eliphas Levi: Master of Occultism. The University of Alabama Press, 1975. Pages 101 - 103</ref></div></td></tr>
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