Transcendental Magic

First published in 1896, “Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual” is the English translation by A. E. Waite of Éliphas Lévi’s French classic “Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magic”, originally published in two volumes in 1854 and 1856. Waite, an American-born British author and scholar best known for his part in co-creating the Rider-Waite tarot deck, translated Lévi’s influential and widely read first treatise into English and expanded upon it with a biographical preface on the life and...