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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 721,401 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Éliphas Lévi is the 12th most popular occultist (up from 15th in 2019), the 643rd most popular biography from France (up from 676th 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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  • 34

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Among OCCULTISTS

Among occultists, Éliphas Lévi ranks 12 out of 37. Before him are Count of St. Germain, Aleister Crowley, Alessandro Cagliostro, Anton LaVey, Allan Kardec, and Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa. After him are Joachim of Fiore, Edgar Cayce, Gérard Encausse, Guido von List, Edward Kelley, and Charles Webster Leadbeater.

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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 Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans, Alexandre Colonna-Walewski, Princess Marianne of the Netherlands, Nikolay Pirogov, Otto Nicolai, and Hermann Heinrich Gossen. Among people deceased in 1875, Éliphas Lévi ranks 10. Before him are Jean-François Millet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Andrew Johnson, Tongzhi Emperor, Charles Lyell, and Isaac Singer. After him are John Edward Gray, Charles Wheatstone, Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, Moses Hess, Francis V, Duke of Modena, and Pierre Larousse.

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In France

Among people born in France, Éliphas Lévi ranks 643 out of 6,011. Before him are Albert Fert (1938), Alfred Jarry (1873), Alain Resnais (1922), Daniel Auber (1782), Paul Broca (1824), and Siméon Denis Poisson (1781). After him are Jean Jaurès (1859), Clotilde (475), Lazare Carnot (1753), Jean-Baptiste Biot (1774), Antoine-Jean Gros (1771), and Félix Faure (1841).

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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), Joséphin Péladan (1858), and Stanislas de Guaita (1861).

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