The Ritual of Transcendental Magic

Éliphas Lévi’s influential work presents ritual as a disciplined means of engaging the symbolic and imaginative dimensions of occult philosophy. It helped shape modern ceremonial magic by linking practice to Christian, Hermetic, and Kabbalistic symbolism. Readers will find discussions of magical intention, ritual form, and the moral and intellectual preparation required of the practitioner.

Éliphas Lévi (Alphonse Louis Constant, 1810–1875) was a French occult writer whose works did much to define modern Western occultism. Books such as Dogme et rituel de la haute magie synthesized ceremonial magic, Kabbalah, and Christian symbolism in a highly influential esoteric idiom.