OCCULTIST

Éliphas Lévi

1810 - 1875

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Éliphas Lévi Zahed, born Alphonse Louis Constant (8 February 1810 – 31 May 1875), was a French esotericist, poet, and writer. Initially pursuing an ecclesiastical career in the Catholic Church, he abandoned the priesthood in his mid-twenties and became a ceremonial magician. At the age of 40, he began professing knowledge of the occult. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Éliphas Lévi has received more than 836,469 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Éliphas Lévi is the 11th most popular occultist (up from 12th in 2019), the 692nd most popular biography from France (down from 642nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Occultist.

Éliphas Lévi is most famous for his book, Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, which is a study of the Kabbalah.

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Éliphas Lévi ranks 11 out of 41. Before him are Helena Blavatsky, Aleister Crowley, Count of St. Germain, Alessandro Cagliostro, Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, and Allan Kardec. After him are Joachim of Fiore, Edgar Cayce, Anton LaVey, Gérard Encausse, Edward Kelley, and Guido von List.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1810, Éliphas Lévi ranks 9. Before him are Pope Leo XIII, Camillo Benso, Count of Cavour, P. T. Barnum, Theodor Schwann, Alfred de Musset, and Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies. After him are Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Ernst Kummer, Nikolay Pirogov, Otto Nicolai, and Princess Marianne of the Netherlands. Among people deceased in 1875, Éliphas Lévi ranks 8. Before him are Andrew Johnson, Georges Bizet, Ferdinand I of Austria, Jean-François Millet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, and Charles Lyell. After him are Isaac Singer, John Edward Gray, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Moses Hess, Guillaume Henri Dufour, and Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander.

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In France

Among people born in France, Éliphas Lévi ranks 692 out of 6,770. Before him are Nicole Oresme (1323), Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle (1760), Louis Auguste Blanqui (1805), Alain Robbe-Grillet (1922), Anne of Foix-Candale (1484), and Louise of Savoy (1476). After him are Darius Milhaud (1892), Maurice Allais (1911), Jean-Henri Fabre (1823), Madame de La Fayette (1634), Raymond Aron (1905), and François Jacob (1920).

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Among OCCULTISTS In France

Among occultists born in France, Éliphas Lévi ranks 3. Before him are Nostradamus (1503), and Allan Kardec (1804). After him are Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (1743), Stanislas de Guaita (1861), and Joséphin Péladan (1858).

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