By Eliphas Levi
Eliphas Lvi used to be steeped within the Western occult culture and a grasp of the Rosicrucian interpretation of the Qabalah, which types the root of magic as practiced within the West at the present time. the main of the Mysteries represents the fruits of Lvi's options and is written with sophisticated and mild irony. It finds the mysteries of faith and the secrets and techniques of the Qabalah, supplying a cartoon of the prophetic theology of numbers. The mysteries of nature, akin to spiritualism and fluidic phantoms, are explored. Magical mysteries, the idea of the need with its 22 axioms are divulged. and eventually it deals "the nice sensible secrets." the real greatness of this paintings, in spite of the fact that, lies in its skill to put occult idea firmly in Western non secular traditions. For Lvi, the research of the occult was once the research of a divine technological know-how, the maths of God.
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