The History of Magic

Renowned scholar of the mystical occult Eliphas Levi offers a lengthy and thorough history of magic, sorcery, witchcraft and alchemy from ancient times to the nineteenth century.

Beginning with the earliest allusions to magical phenomena in the Hebrew texts of antiquity, we are taken through centuries of incidents relating to practitioners of magic. Many of the accused were members of the priesthood, said to be practicing some form of dire sorcery; opposition was such that laws against magic...