Traité élémentaire de magie pratique

Record summary

Papus’s Traité élémentaire de magie pratique, published in Paris in 1893, presented a systematic account of practical magic, astral forces, ritual correspondences, talismans, and occult techniques. The manual is an identifiable example of how fin-de-siècle French occultism sought to organize inherited magical materials into a quasi-scientific framework. It can be compared with Lévi, Theosophy, and the Golden Dawn for terminology and transmission. Its descriptions are doctrinal and instructional, not controlled demonstrations. Bibliographic verification should include the original French edition and subsequent revisions or translations.