Eliphas Levi and the French Occult Revival

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A searching study of Eliphas Lévi and the French occult revival.

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List of Illustrations	p. 6
Preface	p. 7
Introduction	p. 11
The Age of Unreason
The Rebirth of Magic	p. 17
The Occult and the Revolution	p. 34
Revolutionary Cults	p. 44
The Beginnings of Popular Occultism	p. 49
Magnetisers and Mediums	p. 55
The Holy King	p. 61
Eliphas Lévi
The Early Years	p. 73
The Radical	p. 83
Enter Eliphas Lévi	p. 96
The Magician	p. 105
The Pundit	p. 124
The Last Years	p. 136
Eliphas Lévi: An Assessment	p. 141
Towards the Kingdom of the Paraclete
The Heirs of Eliphas Lévi	p. 157
The War of the Roses	p. 171
The Magical Quest of J.-K. Huysmans	p. 177
Writers and the Occult	p. 195
Satanists and Anti-Satanists	p. 206
The Indian Summer of Occultism	p. 219
	p. 225
	p. 226
Select Bibliography	p. 228
Index	p. 233
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