The History of Magic

Including a Clear and Precise Exposition of its Procedure, its Rites and its Mysteries

af Eliphas Levi

First published in French, this work by Eliphas Levi (1810-75) was translated into English by occult historian Arthur Waite in 1913. In this book, Levi traces Western magic from its origins in the ancient world to the nineteenth-century occult revival. Levi's French edition is also reissued in this series.