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Tag: Paracelsus

  • Eliphas Levi’s “Warning to the Impudent” on Occultism

    Eliphas Levi’s “Warning to the Impudent” on Occultism

    Éliphas Lévi (Alphonso Louis Constant), 19th century French esotericist influenced by occult philosophy and thinkers like Joseph de Maistre, warns impudent students rushing into occult studies. [Translated by Arthur Edward Waite in Transcendental Magic, 1896] If there are two lessons to take from this, they are — “The Esotericists are therefore warned that unless they are prepared…

  • Limitations of Christian Cabalists and Bible Challenge Authority of Western Esotericism

    Limitations of Christian Cabalists and Bible Challenge Authority of Western Esotericism

    Does the limitations of Kabbalah and the Christian Bible in the Studies of Esotericism blind Western Philosophers? Helena P. Blavatsky challenged the esotericists of her time, who saw in the Bible, the final authority, even in the area of esoteric study. “And now it has come to this: The student interested in the Secret Sciences…