For as long a Man has tried to control his environment, the magicians of long ago, and even today, attempt to control the four natural powers of the traditional elements. The four refer to Fire, Air, Earth, and Water, and it is the aim of the magician to align him or herself with the individual elemental powers. To feel these energies, understand them, and request their assistance.
This work on the rituals of the Elemental Spirits is a classic in the history of Magick manuscripts. Much of the information it contains has been widely adopted by other Magickal Traditions. This is a practical book, not a work of philosopy. Archan Publishing has also release The Book of Angelic Elements as a companion to the worl by Levi.
Éliphas Lévi is the pen-name of Abbé Alphonse Louis Constant, a Roman Catholic priest and magician. His later writings on the Tarot and occult topics were a great influence on the Spiritualist and Hermetic movements of fin de siècle England and France, especially on such members of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn as Arthur Edward Waite and Aleister Crowley.
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Éliphas Lévi es el nombre adoptado por el mago y escritor ocultista francés Alphonse Louis Constant.