Eliphas Lévi

In this 43-minutes conference, Arnaud de l'Etoile invites us to discover Eliphas Lévi's life and work.
Born in Paris, Alphonse Louis Constant (1810-1875), or Eliphas Lévi, is a figurehead of occultism, a spiritual and mystical way of thinking preoccupied by mysterious forces of cosmos and man.
With a disturbed youth, and a revolutionary past, he studies theology and becomes deacon. Teaching catechism, he falls in love and leaves the seminary. He devotes himself to occultist philosophy which he renews in "Dogmas and rituals of High Magic",

in which he justifies of the unknown, supernatural, astrology, and Kabbalah, etc. - philosophy which is opposed to materialistic and rational society which comes to light in the 19th century.

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