Dogme et rituel de la haute magie

Record summary

Éliphas Lévi’s Dogme et rituel de la haute magie appeared in two parts in Paris during 1854–1856 and became a foundational modern European occult text. It combined ceremonial magic, Kabbalistic correspondences, tarot symbolism, Christian imagery, magnetism, and speculative history. The work is useful for comparing how nineteenth-century occultists reconstructed older traditions into a modern synthetic system. Its claims are literary, symbolic, and esoteric rather than evidence of demonstrated magical effects. Verification should include French first editions, publication chronology, Lévi’s biography, and later English translations that sometimes alter terminology.