by Eliphas Levi
Eighth Hour
Adam and Eve enter the nuptial bed; they are two when they lie down, and when they arise they are four.
Explanation
The tetrad joined to the tetrad represents form balancing form, creation issuing from creation, the eternal equipoise of life; seven being the number of God's rest, the unity which follows it signifies man, who toils and co-operates with Nature in the work of creation.
Ninth Hour
God imposes His law on man.
Explanation
Nine is the number of initiation, because, being com posed of three times three, it represents the divine idea and the absolute philosophy of numbers, for which reason Apollonius says that the mysteries of the number nine are not to be revealed.
Tenth Hour
At the tenth Hour Adam falls into sin.
Explanation
According to the Kabalists ten is the number of matter, of which the special sign is zero. In the tree of the SEPHIROTH ten represents MALKUTH, or exterior and material substance. The sin of Adam is therefore materialism, and the fruit whish he plucks from the tree represents flesh isolated from spirit, zero separated from unity, the schism of the number ten, resulting on the one side in a despoiled unity and on the other in nothingness and death.
Eleventh Hour
At the eleventh Hour the sinner is condemned to labour and to expiate his sin by suffering.
Explanation
In Tarot, eleven represents force, which is acquired through trials. God inflicts penalties on man as a means of salvation, because he must strive and endure, that he may conquer intelligence and life.
Twelfth Hour
Man and woman undergo their sentence; the expiation begins, and the Liberator is promised.
Explanation
Such is the completion of moral birth; man is fulfilled, for he is dedicated to the sacrifice which regenerates; the exile of Adam is like that of Oedipus; like Oedipus he becomes the father of two enemies, but the daughter of Oedipus is the pious and virginal Antigone, while Mary issues from the race of Adam.
These mysterious and sublime revelations of religious unity are drawn—as we have said—from the Talmud, but apart from that voluminous compilation they will be found in the commentary of Paulus Riccius entitled Epitome de Talmndica Doctrina. See Pistorius: Artis Kabbalisticae Scriptores, p. 280.
INDEX
(References to footnotes are indicated thus: fn.)
ABRACADABRA, 223, 224, 226
Abraham, the Jew, 175, 283, 284, 285
Abraxas, 83, 162, 242, 285
Absolute, 35, 41, 45, 50, 61, 166, 179, 182, 281, 355, 393, 408
Achilles, 34
Active and passive, 38
Adam, 95, 119, 132, 167, 272, 426, 427, 428, 429; disobedience preserved in Astral Light, 85; signi fied by Jod, 52; the Human Tetragram, 37
Adda-Narri, 161, 182
Adonai, 56 fn.
Adonhiram, 256, 272
Aeschylus, 15
Aesh Mezareph, 175, 285 fn.
Agla, 174 fn.
Agrippa, Cornelius, 29, 78, 178, 215, 220, 253, 261, 280, 315 fn., 374, 383; great and unfortunate, 29; his miserable death, 94, 105, 174; not a great magician, 9; submitted to the religion of his time, 49
Albertus Magnus, 332, 394
Alchemy, see Magnus Opus
Ammonius Saccas, 5, 17
Anael, 81, 231, 250, 253, 375
Analogy, 179 et seq. See also Hermetic Axiom
Ancient of the Kabalah, 98
Androgyne, 12
Android, 331, 332
Animal magnetism, see Magnetism
Antichrist, 58
Aour, 194, 282 fn.
Apocalypse, 3, 4, 43, 51, 81, 98, 102 fn., 161, 199, 224, 273, 274, 366, 374, 383, 387, 394, 400, 402
Apollonius, 2, 12, 29, 67, 76, 92, 105, 123, 124, 125, 280, 291, 300, 313, 370
Apuleius, 16, 17, 31, 128, 133, 300, 302, 346, 349
Aqua Toffana, 155, 158
Ararita, 82
Archimedes, 21, 104, 110
Ark of the Covenant, 39, 395
Ars Notoria, 11
Ashburner, Dr., 347
Assiah, 52, 393 fn., 395 f.n
Astral Body, dissolves after physical death, 120; in conformity with thought, 129; intermediary between soul and physical envelope, 129, 246; not always of the same sex as the physical, 87
Astral Intoxication, 143
Astral Light, 15 fn., 60, 63, 66, 67, 71, 73, 77, 78, 84, 85, 87, 93, 104, 105, 107, 119, 121, 126, 129, 130, 136, 142, 143, 174, 176, 177, 181, 200, 205, 228, 231, 236, 257, 284, 293, 309, 327, 358, 364, 365, 369, 370, 410; a force more powerful than steam, 12; agent of alchemy, 282 fn.; and Doctrine of Signa tures, 149–50; and fire of hell, 76; and Magnetism, 72; and the Translucid, 129; book of consciences, 77; explains table-turning, 110–11; gives warning of coming influences, 142; glass of vision, 64; governed by human will, 68; great book of divination, 370; impression of the Fall of Adam, 85; its dual movement, 108; laws ruling it, 74–5; manifested by four phenomena, 54; mother of forms, 66; preserves impressions of all visible things, 147; projected by man, 246–8; represented by the serpent, 194; secret of its direction, 56; the soul's purgation therein, 153; transformed at conception into human light, 87; transmits the memory of forms, 221; Universal Agent, 42; universal seducer, 75
Athanor, 70, 115, 200, 284 fn., 287
Atziluth, 52, 275, 395
Azot, and Azoth, 103, 164, 167, 168, 238, 244, 286, 395; a name of the Astral Light, 55, 104; a term in alchemy, 46; an alchemical element, 60; contains the In communicable Axiom, 56; how composed, 282; office in metallic transmutation, 175; synonomous with the word Tarot, 382; the Fire of Philosophers, 358; the God of the Sages, 15; the word which contains all, 17
BAPHOMET, 10, 12, 168, 222 fn., 242, 307, 309, 310, 315, 359
Belot, Jean, 342
Bereshith, 103, 335
Bethlehem, 198
Binah, 61, 71, 96, 97, 393 f.n
Black Magic, 6, 7, 121 fn., 140, 143, 183, 214, 223, 258, 298, 333
Black Sabbath, 6, 7, 12, 76, 135, 163, 278, 308, 311
Blazing Star, 35, 154, 200, 201, 237, 239, 357
Bodin, J., demonologist, 141, 307, 314, 322, 324
Böhme, J., 19
Brahe, Tycho, 69, 163, 250, 272
Briah, 52, 61 fn., 275, 393 fn., 395
Bull hieroglyph, 60, 81, 378. See also Cherub and Sphinx
CADIOT, MILE, N., xxi
Cadmus, 95, 375
Caduceus, 83, 117, 415
Cain, and Abel, 41, 142, 273
Cainites, 193
Cagliostro, 2, 94, 133, 156, 247, 264
Cardan, J., 5, 105, 151, 152, 264, 280, 374
Cartomancy, 335, 371
Cato, 6
Cazotte, J., 94, 156, 227
Chaho, A., 398 et seq.
Chateaubriand, 108
Cherub, 81, 273. See also Bull and Sphinx
Chesed, 51, 61, 96, 97, 101, 309
Chiromancy, 150
Chokmah, 61, 71, 96, 101, 393 fn., 424
Christ, 48, 85, 138, 164, 169, 174, 182, 196, 197, 198, 199, 200, 201, 202, 225, 243, 266, 275, 291, 292, 303, 305, 308, 361, 365, 401, 402
Clavicles of Solomon, 10, 225, 249, 378
Coglenius, 163
Constant, A. L., xix, et seq.
Convulsionaries, 111
Cortices, 49, 63
Cross, 16, 54, 58, 61, 70, 117, 233, 241, 285
Cynocephalus, 83
DAMMARTIN, M. de, 334
Death, 126, 132, 170, 171; always preceded by sleep, 73; as change, 30; its terrors the daughters of ignorance, 188; no death for the Sage, 170; there is no death, 289
Delancre, 314
Delrio, 314
Descartes, R., 25
Devil, 98, 135, 141, 243, 307, 317
Diaphane, 33, 50, 63, 65, 66, 68, 85, 87
Dictionary of Christian Literature, xxii
Dionysius the Areopagite, 5, 17
Divine Names, 99
Dogme de la Haute Magie, xxii, xxiii, et seq.
d'Olivet, Fabre, 193
Dragon, 83
Dreams, 5, 65, 66, 67, 132
Duad, 38, 41, 43, 53, 311, 415, 425
Duchentau, 69, 163, 216, 250, 272
Duodenary, 117, 279
Dupotet, Baron, 370
Dupuis, 22, 154, 180, 274, 343, 403
Eagle hieroglyph, 60, 181, 378
Earthly Paradise, xxiv
Eckartshausen, 334
Edenic Mystery, 104
Elagabalus, 164, 166
Elder of the Kabalah, see Ancient
Elementary Spirits, 60, 62, 67, 229, 232, 233, 234
Elias, 292
Embryonic, 77, 120
Emerald Table, 27, 43, 165, 282, 356
Enchiridion, 249, 261, 322
Enoch, 3, 43, 95, 149, 280, 375
Epaminondas, 6
Equilibrium, 78, 79, 86, 148, 179, 213, 250, 329, 425
Eros and Anteros, 40, 273
Esquiros, A., xx
Ether, 55
Etteilla, 103, 115, 177, 287, 371, 381, 390
Eve, 16, 37, 52, 167
Evocations, 220, 293, 294
Extreme Unction, 366
Ezekiel, 3, 10, 22, 103, 160, 181, 182, 255, 265, 273, 390
Fables et Symboles, xxiii
Faith, as aspiration and desire, 406, 407; basis of, 165, 181; professions of, 179, 180; reason and, 179
Fascination, 304
Faust, 21, 31, 69
Fifty Gates, 103
First Cause, 47, 50, 54
First Matter, 281, 359
Fixed, and volatile, 61, 115, 358
Flamel, H., xxii
Flamel, N., 113, 175, 207, 235 fn., 282, 283, 284, 285, 287
Fleece, Golden, 13
Fohi, 38, 47
Four Ages, 62
Four Elements, 60
Freemasonry, 19, 35, 38, 54, 247, 256, 270, 271, 273, 275, 277, 315 fn.
GABRIEL, 81, 250, 253, 375
Gaffarel, 103 fn., 144, 149, 150, 254, 261, 315 fn., 334, 336, 337, 343, 379, 394
Galatinus, 19
Gaufridi, 131, 312, 350
Gebelin, Court de, 115, 117, 325, 381, 390
Geber, 356
Gematria, 103, 224
Genesis of Enoch, 23, see also Tarot
Geomancy, 335, 371
Gilles de Laval, 324
Girard, Father, xxxi, 131, 136, 350
Gnosis, 37, 39, 51, 101, 191–3, 268
God, 84, 166, 182, 196, 332; and faith, 167; and miracles, 360; Divine Unity and Triplicity, 41, 46; essential idea of, 61; how defined, 180; necessity and liberty in, 39; Secret of, 57; Tetradic Name of, 54; the Azot of the Sages, 15; works of, 180
Goetic Magic, 76
Gospel of Liberty, The, xx
Grandier, Urban, xxxi, 23, 89, 130, 131, 156, 261
Great Arcanum, 94, 105, 116, 155, 156, 161, 245, 304; and the Manual of Paracelsus, 356; astral movement and, 181; characteristics of, 60; first principles of, 213; occult name of, 173; partly divined by Oedipus, 14; revelation of, 283–4; royalty of its possessor, 355; secret of directing Astral Light, 55, 56
Great Magical Agent, see Astral Light
Great Work, see Magnus Opus
Grimoires, 24, 158, 249, 298, 303, 316, 317 fn., 322, 349
Guaita, S. de, xxix
Gyges, Ring of, 303, 305
HELL, 153
Hermanubis, 40, 308, 313, 359
Hermes, 5, 13, 25 fn., 29, 38, 42, 43, 55, 92, 165, 275, 277, 280
Hermetic Axinm, and divination, 93; consequences ot, 211; proves the reality of evocations, 221; sole dogma of universal religion, 59; sole doctrine of Magic, 34; trinity and unity of, 38, 45 f.n
Hiram, 200
Histoire de la Magie, xxiii
Hod, 61, 102, 393 fn
Homoepathy, 361
Hyle, 52, 230, 242
IMAGINATION, 34, 63, 64, 132, 371–2
Immortality, 59
Incommunicable Axiom, 22, 56
Initiation, 93, 267
Inri, 55, 56, 168
Insufflation, 363, 364
Intelligible Worlds, 46
Io Evohe, 466
JACOB, and the Angel, 40
Jakin and Boaz, 38, 51, 80, 165, 180, 257, 275, 380
Jesod, 61, 97, 393 f.n
Jettatura, 159, 160, 328
Jod, 39, 52, 101, 102
Jod, He, Vau, He, see Tetragram
Julian the Apostate, 5, 22, 29, 49, 108, 126, 195, 208, 285, 313
Jupiter (planet), 81, 83, 252, 254, 255, 265, 375
KABALAH, 51, 52, 147, 154, 224, 268; and four living creatures, 286; and magnetism, 214; and natural law, 167; and Tarot, 99 et seg.; and the Apocalypse, 274–5; angelology, 81; as a primeval book, 95; Dante and the, 17; Enoch, father of the, 43; its admirable doctrine, 19; its funda mental principle, 50; its ground of religion and science, 96; its Key of occult science, 182; its Pillar symbolism, 38; its pneumatology, 132, 133; its secret science, 182; its Sephirotic symbolism, 97; its sole dogma, 54; Kabalistic elements, 60, 61, equilibrium, 78, Pentagram, 68–9, scapegoat, 222 fn.; Key of, 52; literature of, 19; Lucifer in, 188; Magic and the, 22 fn.; practical, 224; reconciliation of reason and faith, 4; Sepher Yetzirah, 283; symbols containing its secret, 3
Kether, 51, 61, 71, 96 fn., 393
Khunrath, H., 105, 114, 262, 284 fn., 285, 309–10, 316
Kircher, A., 19
La Clef des Grands Mystéres, xxiii
La Science des Esprits, xxiii
Labarum, 56, 261, 338
Lammenais, Abbé, 26
Laval, Gilles de, 324
Lavater, 252
Le Sorrier de Meudon, xxiii
Lenormand, Mile., 371
Lévi, Éliphas, xix–xxxi, 69, 119
Liberty, 78, 92, 115
Life of Anna Kingsford, xxxi
Lingam, 61, 83, 257
Lion hieroglyph, 60, 181, 378
Logos, 43, 77, 84, 225. See also Word
Loudon, Devils of, 130
Louis XVII, xx
Love, 17, 75
Lucifer, a name of the Great Magical Agent, 55, 75; burning sceptre of, 16; restitution of, 240; signature of, 201; the Gnostic, 191; the Kabalistic, 188
Lucifuge, 75
Lully, R., 8, 94, 105, 113, 207, 235 fn., 282, 284, 287, 314, 357, 394
Lycanthropy, 126
MACROCOSM, 35, 39, 45, 70, 261
Macroprosopus, 60
Magi, Three, 3, 194, 200, 237, 239
Magic, alone imparts true science, 27; condemned by Christianity, 218; defined, 28; differs from Mysticism, 84; its basis of science, 2; its conditions and perils, 32; its early history, 1–2; its power and reality, 8–9; its quality of dedication, 207–8; the Church and, 4–6; the Sacerdotal and Royal Art, 93; to be pursued only in secret, 210. See also Black Magic
Magic Rod, 72, 258, 259, 260, 261
Magic Squares, 383–5
Magical Instruments, 218, 258 et seq.
Magician, The, xx
Magnes, interior, 143, 356
Magnesia, 104, 113
Magnetic Fluid, 55
Magnetism, 67, 72, 73, 74, 213–14, 246, 304, 365, 410
Magnum Opus, 13, 17, 23, 30, 56, 70, 115, 244, 377, 309 fn., 394;, a magical operation, 287; al chemical elements, 60; alchemical gold, 357, 358; alchemical mandragore, 331–2; alchemical name of Great Arcanum, 173, 174; definition of the Great Work, 113; definition of the Stone, 355; necessary instruments, 115, 116; poverty as its protection, 204; prophets of alchemy, 14; secrets of the Great Work, 281; the doctrine underlying alchemical symbols, 1
Maitland, E., xxxi
Malkuth, 51, 61, 96, 97, 102, 275 fn., 428
Mandragore, 331–2
Manes, 47
Man hieroglyph, 60, 378
Manichaeanism, 310, 311
Mars (planet), 80, 81, 83, 151, 252, 2
55, 265, 375
Mary the Mother, 151, 237, 256
Mary the Egyptian, 114
Mass, Holy, 70 fn., 206
Medicine, Occult, 361 et seq.
Mendes, 31, 168, 239, 315
Mercavah, 103, 335
Mercury (the element), 60, 83, 114, 166, 175, 255, 282, 284, 308, 336, 357, 358, 359, 395
Mercury (planet), 80, 81, 82, 83, 251, 252, 265
Mesmer, 12, 106
Metempsychosis, 302
Michael, 40, 81, 85, 250
Microcosm, 35, 72, 215, 237, 241, 261, 277
Microprosopus, 30, 60, 237
Migne, Abbé, xxii
Minerva Mundi, 115
Miracles, 204, 360, 410
Mirandola, Picus de, 19, 320
Mirville, Comte de, 74 fn., 136, 228, 242, 307, 352, 410
Molay, J. de, 7
Monad, 38
Montfaucon, 334
Moon, 80, 81, 151, 252, 255, 265, 330, 375
Mopses, 315
Morris, Wm., xxiv
Moses, 10, 13, 18, 22, 25, 71, 94, 159, 193, 273
Mysteries, 32, 312
NAPOLEON III, xxxi
Netsah, 61, 96, 97, 102, 393 f.n
Nuisement, Sieur de, 168
OB, 194
Occult Philosophy, 1
Od, 55, 74 fn., 194, 282, 284
Oedipus, 13, 14 fn., 15, 16, 43, 409
Ophites, 193
Orifiel, 81, 250, 374, 376
Orpheus, 2, 6, 13, 29, 94, 199, 374
Osiris, 29, 54, 273
PACTS, 322
Pandora, 16
Pantacles, 254, 272, 273
Papus, Dr., xxix
Paracelsus, 8, 34, 59 fn., 178, 225, 241, 250, 254, 259, 280, 284, 314, 383; accused of insanity, 23; an innovator in Magic, 70; his appearance in dream to Éliphas Lévi, 396; his doctrine of phantoms, 130; his doctrine of the Interior Magnes, 356, 396; his discovery of animal magnetism, 143; his Manual, 356; his marvels of healing, 143; his philosophy of intuition, 87; his proscription of Ceremonial Magic, 266; his sex suspected, 105; his strife with Nature, 216, 217; his study of signatures, 150; his sympathetic medicine, 331; last of the great practical astrologers, 149; submitted to the religion of his time, 49; talismans of, 83, 143, 150; the labours which overcame him, 94