Eliphas Lévi Zahed in 1874 by Charles Revel (Wikimedia Commons)

The Man Who Revived the Occult

Modern occultism owes its rebirth to one figure above all others. He dubbed himself Eliphas Lévi.

Mitch Horowitz
17 min readJul 10, 2023

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Understanding occult history requires accepting history as it really existed not as I might want it to romantically exist.

That does not imply that novelty is wrong. Nor does it mean that because an idea is old and widely…

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Mitch Horowitz

"Treats esoteric ideas & movements with an even-handed intellectual studiousness"-Washington Post | PEN Award-winning historian | Censored in China