title: Mysteries of Magic: A Digest of the Writings of Eliphas Levi
author: Arthur Edward Waite
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zlib_text: ELIPHAS
  LEVl'S
  TRANSCENDENTAL
  MAGIC
  
  iics Hyatt.
  
  TRANSCENDENTAL MAGIC
  ITS DOCTRINE AND RITUAL
  BY
  tiLIPHAS
  LfiVI
  A COMPLETE TRANSLATION OF
  "DOGME ET RITUEL DE LA HAUTE MAGIE "
  WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE
  BY
  ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE
  AUTHOR OF "DEVIL WORSHIP IN FRANCE," ETC.
  ETC.
  INCLUDING ALL THE ORIGINAL ENGRAVINGS
  AND A PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR
  LONDON
  GEORGE REDWAY
  1896
  
  &&0*
  
  BIOGRAPHICAL PEEFACE
  ELIPHAS LEVI ZAHED is a pseudonym which was adopted in
  his occult
  writings by Alphonse Louis
  Constant, and
  it
  is
  said
  to
  be
  the Hebrew
  equivalent
  of
  that
  name.
  The
  author
  of
  the Dogme
  et
  Rituel
  de
  la Haute
  Magie
  was
  born in humble circumstances about the year 1810, being
  the
  son
  of
  a shoemaker.
  Giving
  evidence
  of
  unusual
  intelligence
  at an early
  age,
  the
  priest
  of his parish con-
  ceived
  a kindly interest
  for
  the
  obscure boy, and got him
  on the foundation
  of
  Saint
  Sulpice, where he was educated
  without
  charge, and with
  a view
  to
  the
  priesthood.
  He
  seems to have passed through
  the
  course
  of study at
  