The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum
The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum
W. Wynn Westcott
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GBPÉliphas Lévi, born Alphonse Louis Constant, (1810–75) was instrumental in the revival of Western occultism in the nineteenth century, and published several influential books on magic that are also reissued in this series. This posthumous publication (1896) is a translation by William Wynn Westcott, co-founder of the 'Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn', of an unpublished French manuscript by Lévi, then owned by the spiritualist Edward Maitland. It includes eight of the author's drawings. Each short chapter outlines the meaning of one of the twenty-two tarot trumps and is followed by a brief editor's note describing the card's iconography and summarising interpretations (sometimes deliberately misleading) given in Lévi's earlier publications. The book ends with Kabbalistic prayers and rituals, praise of Jesus Christ as the great initiate, and a surprising assertion that Christianity has superseded ancient magic, revealing the life-long tension between Catholicism and magic in Lévi's personality and thought.
Product details
December 2011Paperback
9781108044295
134 pages
216 × 140 × 8 mm
0.18kg
8 colour illus.
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Table of Contents
- Preface by the editor
- 1. The Magician
- 2. The Priestess
- 3. The Empress
- 4. The Emperor
- 5. The Pope, or Hierophant
- 6. The Lovers
- 7. The Chariot of Hermes
- 8. Justice
- 9. The Hermit
- 10. The Wheel of Fortune
- 11. Fortitude
- 12. The Hanged Man
- 13. Death
- 14. Temperance
- 15. Satan
- 16. The Tower
- 17. The Star
- 18. The Moon
- 19. The Sun
- 20. The Last Judgment
- 21. The Unwise Man
- 22. The Universe
- The Kabalistic prayer
- Conclusion
- Occult and religious maxims.
