Eliphas Levi

Today a little bit of magic. It's been a while since last time I read witchcraft book. This one is my favorite autor. I have all his work. It's interesting. I begun to read about it when I was playing at D&D many years ago. At that time, my GM (game master) introduced the witch character to me. After a while, I wanted to know what real witchcraft was, at least the most 'serious' one. Eliphas Levi was one of them.

Eliphas Levi (the pen name of Abbé Louis Constant, 1810-1875), was a French occultist who is credited for reviving interest in magic in the 19th century. Levi's writings have been appraised as being highly imaginative but not very accurate. His first and probably most important work was The Dogma and Ritual of High Magic. It was followed by A History of Magic, Transcendental Magic, The Key of Great Mysteries, and other occult books. Levi "believed in the existence of a universal 'secret doctrine' of magic throughout history, everywhere in the world."

After him came Aleister Crowley. He believe to be an incarnation of Levi itself. It's really hard to know what is due to mental illness and what is true from those books but it's interesting to read. 

There is 3 kinda of magic (who can be devided in other most specific kind):

Sorcery : Spells and incantation to call deities to get favor or power from them.

Wikka : Protection and light spell using your own power and property of surounding nature forces.

Magic : Trick, mind control by practice and illusions. 

The only one I am interested in is sorcery. Deities invented by humans to serve humans. All the will power of people who believe in a 'God' create this entity and give it's property (god of fire, war, fertility...). Without humans there is no god. When a god stop to have believers he is 'asleep'. You can wake him up again but you need his real name. The name only creators gave him. Ahhhhh I miss that I think I will read a bit this weekend.