Transcendental Magic — Éliphas Lévi

Necromancy, 112, 113 et seq., 273 et seq. Netsah, 90, 91, 98 Ob, 182 Od, 53, 182, 265 (Edipus, 14, 16, 17, 385 Ophites, 181 Orifiel, 76, 236, 352 Orpheus, 3, 4, 7, 14, 30, 88, 107 Osiris, 30, 52 Pacts, 302 Pandora, 17 Pantacles, 239, 256 Paracelsus, accused of insanity, 23 ; submitted to the religion of his time, 47 ; an innovator in magic, 66 ; talismans of, 79 ; his philosophy of intuition, 82 ; the labours which overcame him, 88 ; his sex suspected, 98 ; his doctrine of phantoms, 122 ; his marvels of healing, 133 ; his discovery of magnetism, ib.; last of the great practical astrologers, 139 ; his doctrine of signatures, 140 ; his strife with nature, 203 ; his proscription of ceremonial magic, 250 ; his sympathetic medicine, 311 ; his doctrine of the interior magnes, 335 ; his appearance in dream to Eliphas Levi, 372 ; see also 35, 164, 235, 240, 263 Pentagram, 60, 65, 67, 108, 188, 202, 210, 224 et seq. 241 Pentateuch, 19 Peter of Apono, 284 Phallus, 37, 38, 94 Philosophical Stone, 12 ; see Magnum Opus Philtres, 326 et seq. Picus de Mirandola, 20, 301 Pistorius, 20 Plato, 7, 14, 184, 288

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Pleroma, 50 Plotinus, 263, 294 Pneumatology, 47, 124, 143 Porta, J.

B., 147, 292 Postel, William, 6, 18, 20, 54, 77, 94, 139, 353 Potable gold, 157 Powder of projection, 335 Priapus, 32 Prometheus, 17, 249 Psyche, 16, 17, 50, 183, 184 Pythagoras, 3, 14, 19, 32, 149, 150, 249, 254, 257, 265, 395 Quadrature of the Circle, 33 Quintessence, 264 Raphael, 76, 236, 353 Redeemer, 81 Regnum Dei, 28 Religion, 83, 199, 251, 381 Respiration, 82 Resurrection, 170 Revolution of Souls, Book of, 20, 48, 73, 111 Romance of the Rose, 18 Rota, 54, 94, 356 ; see Tarot Rousseau, 5, 101 Saint-Martin, 6, 30, 88, 209, 359, 372 Salt, in alchemy, 57, 265, 266, 335 Salvator Rosa, 8 Samael, 76, 236, 353 Sanctum Regnum, 28, 75 Satan, 40, 81, 92, 136, 170, 278, 313 Saturn (planet), 76, 78, 141, 236, 237, 249 Schrcepffer, 125, 145, 208, 248 Seal of Solomon, 44, 47, 67, 189, 197, 209, 211, 247, 374 Sepher Jetzirah, 20, 152, 214 Sepher-Toldos-Jeschu, 109 Sephiroth, 91, 96 Septenary, 75, 77, 165, 234 et seq.

Serpent, 71, 127, 160, 181, 229 Sidereal Body, see Astral Body Solomon, 10, 50, 139 Somnambulism, 61, 63, 112, 113, 223, 233 Sorcery, 29, 83, 144 Soul of the Earth, 53 Soul of the World, see Great Magical Agent Sphinx, 3, 10, 14, 16, 32, 77, 150, 257, 355 Spirit, see Pneumatology

Spiritism, 103, 215, 262 Stauros, 52 St John, 27, 43, 49, 77, 150, 187, 211, 227, 257 Stone of the Philosophers, 153, 155 ; see Magnum Opus St Paul, 21, 83 Stryges, 4 Sublimation, 335 Suffering, 180 Sulphur of Alchemy, 57, 265, 266, 335 Sun, 76, 78, 249 Superstition, 150 Supreme Being, 38 Swedenborg, 6, 7, 47, 61, 70, 89, 215 Symbolism, 184 Synesius, 7, 18, 263 Talisman, 78, 223, 234 et seq. 239 Talmud, 19, 20, 39, 395 Tarot, perhaps anterior to Enoch, 5 ; its first symbol, 30, 161 ; duadic emblem of, 43 ; its symbol of the Sanctum Regnum, 75 ; its connection with the Apocalypse, 77 ; the primitive book, 89 ; the Tarot considered kabbalistically, 93-97 ; its symbol of the Magnum Opus, 108 ; meaning of its seventeenth symbol, 144 ; the most perfect instrument of divination, 164, 165 ; meaning of the eighth key, 249 ; the keystone of occult science, 268 ; its baphometic symbol, 288 ; the Italian variety, 314 ; correspondences with the lunar days, 319-323; the nineteenth emblem, 335 ; the most astounding of all oracles, 349 ; the Tarot as the Book of Hermes, 355-374; the eleventh symbol, 400 ; see also 17, 54, 139 Tau, 52, 108, 110, 226, 229 Templars, 22, 229, 296 Temurah, 97, 211 Terrestrial Paradise, 10, 259 Tetrad, 42, 51, 59, 77, 79, 397, 399 Tetragram, 17, 51, 52, 79, 209 Theraphim, 96, 356 Tiphereth, 59, 90 Translucid, 32, 112, 223 Tree of Knowledge, 9, 42 Trevisan, Bernard, 107 Triad, 38, 42, 44, 52, 77, 79, 397 Trimalcyon, 102, 347 Trinity, 45, 46

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INDEX

Triphonius, 9 Trithemius, 76, 142, 206, 234, 352, 354 Tschoudy, Baron, 336 Tycho Brahe, 66, 152, 235, 256 Uncreated will, 49 Universal medicine, 12, 158 Valentine, Basil, 107, 153, 268, 338 Vampires, 118 Venus (planet), 76, 78, 141, 236, 249 Verbum Inenarrabile, 77 Villars, Abbe de, 145 Virgin Mary, 141, 242