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This title offers a searching study of Eliphas Lvi and the French occult revival.

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Author:   Christopher McIntosh
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Edition:   Revised ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.417kg
ISBN:  

9781438435572

ISBN 10:   1438435576
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 January 2011
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I. The Age of Reason 1. The Rebirth of Magic 2. The Occult and the Revolution 3. Revolutionary Cults 4. The Beginnings of Popular Occultism 5. Magnetisers and Mediums 6. The Holy King Part II. Eliphas Levi 7 The Early Years 8. The Radical 9. Enter Eliphas Levi 10. The Magician 11. The Pundit 12. The Last Years 13. Eliphas Levi: an Assessment Part III. Towards the Kingdom of the Paraclete 14. The Heirs of Eliphas Levi 15. The War of the Roses 16. The Magical Quest of J.-K Huysmans 17. Writers and the Occult 18. Satanists and Anti-Satanists 19. The Indian Summer of Occultism Appendix A Appendix B Select Bibliography Index

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"""...one of the best English sources of information on this fascinating milieu."" - Heathen Harvest"

...one of the best English sources of information on this fascinating milieu. - Heathen Harvest

Author Information

Christopher McIntosh is a faculty member at the Centre of the Study of Esotericism, University of Exeter, England. He is the author of The Rose Cross and the Age of Reason: Eighteenth-Century Rosicrucianism in Central Europe and its Relationship to the Enlightenment, also published by SUNY Press.

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