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Dec. 23, 2023 - The Leo Zagami Show
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Exploring the Illuminati Occult Part 47: The Magic & Mysticism of Éliphas Lévi
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Here we are live from Palm Springs, California on the 23rd of December.
We are close to Christmas, so we have all this Christmassy feel going on.
We are nearly reaching the end of the year, so basically next week we will have a review of the whole year of exploring the Illuminati occult, but we couldn't end this whole series without talking about the guy who launched the word occultism.
I'm talking about Eliphas Levi.
Welcome to the Leo Zagami Show with Leo and Christy Zagami!
Here we are with the magic and mysticism of Eliphas Levi.
And it's going to be definitely an interesting episode so people can understand a little bit more about the guy who basically launched the word occultist, but he also defined modern occultism, the word egregore.
He said, So many things, I mean, Baphomet, the Baphomet that is now paraded by the Satanic Temple, that's also a creation of Eliphas Levi, who was not necessarily a Satanist in the strictest sense, he was more of a...
Catholic-turned-socialist-turned-cato-gnostic-communist, I don't know, I mean, he was pretty particular in his beliefs.
At times maybe he was Not really getting it right, even with his own terms, I think.
But in any case, he was extremely influential.
And so today we are talking about probably one of the most influential people in the history of the occult, because Eliphas Libre was and still is for many people the occult.
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We will definitely, definitely start the year.
It's not going to be any longer exploring the Illuminati Occult every week.
It's going to be a different thing.
We're going to stay though on a Saturday.
We're going to keep this spot so people got used to this spot.
They seem to appreciate this spot.
And that's a good thing, you know?
We're gonna keep the Saturday and keep the 90 minutes.
Well, sometimes we're gonna keep the 90 minutes, sometimes we're gonna do 60 and then we're gonna bring you a special maybe on the following days during the week, but this depends really, I mean, it depends really from The sponsorship that we receive because otherwise I will have to, of course, go back to more of my literary work.
This is, as you know, Volume 9 and Volume 9 itself has actually an image which is basically originating from Halifax Levi, which is the Baphomet image.
I wanted to start really talking about this Frenchman who had, though, a Jewish name, but he was given this name by a Sabbatean Frankist in Poland.
So it's very particular what we're going to be discussing today because, of course, It all originates from the same set of people, but Eliphas Levi was so influential.
I mean, Aleister Crowley claimed to be... Okay, I was wondering that.
I was going to ask you that.
If he was the one that Aleister Crowley said he was a reincarnation of.
Well, he claimed to be the reincarnation of Eliphas Levi.
Kayostro before him, and even before that, he actually was claiming he was also the seer of John D. Kelly.
So he had a series of reincarnations that he claimed during the last few centuries.
But of course, we can say that if Alistair Crowley was the most influential occultist of the past hundred years, Aliphas Levi is the guy who was most influential in the Crowley era. Aliphas Levi is the guy who was most influential in And it was because of Eliphas Levi that the Theosophical Society was created.
So a lot of people would like to know a little bit more about this gentleman.
So first of all, let's go and see various images of him.
Because everybody knows him with the image that we have used also for our thumbnail, of course, which is the more classic.
He was actually a seminalist in St.
Sulpice.
This is a very important seminar for the Catholic Church.
When he was very young, he already manifested the interest in religious things and he was actually quite brilliant.
So the Catholic priesthood picked him up and wanted to make a priest out of him.
It didn't really work out because he liked probably women too much.
And so at one point, apparently, though, there is those people who say that is more of a theological question you can get along with.
He just he just ran off with a woman.
And I think that basically drove him away from the idea of being a priest, because I mean, in the priesthood, you know, some things are more popular than others, without going into the details.
In any case, this was a guy who was, of course, involved with the Catholic Church, and actually somebody who vehemently criticizes the Catholic Church, but then still seems to, always in his writings, Part of it, wanting to be part of it.
And so we need to understand also where his ideas come from.
At one point, he married this minor.
So this means that he was also into very young girls.
And this minor itself was an historic figure of sorts because she became the wife of then the future prime minister of France.
So I mean, Elif Asliva is a character that we need to... and then, of course, his friendship with one of the most eminent aristocrats coming out of the British Empire of his time, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who inspired the Societate Rosicruciane in Anglia, who was responsible for the colonies of the United Kingdom, and who basically
I tell you a little bit the story, so let's start a little bit, because then the story touches also Italy, Naples in particular, because the lodges of Naples had a very direct link with Avignon, with Marseille.
There's always been a link between these two port cities.
Marseille and Naples that are also these days still very much in connection also because very criminal cities.
We have a lot of mafia in both Marseille as well as Naples.
So, and what happened was that Edward Barton Lytton at one point then will call We have to call him at the beginning with another name.
He wasn't born with the name Eliphas Liver because he wasn't actually a Jewish.
From what we know, he wasn't a Jewish person.
He was actually a son of a very poor shoemaker in Paris.
His real name was Alphonse-Louis Costin.
You saw that image that I showed you that is a bit of an older image, but this was his younger image, so we can get a little bit of a more close idea to where he was when he became a revolutionary, because this guy literally became a revolutionary.
He was arrested several times for being such a communist in those days for actually proclaiming that socialism and communism held really the understanding of real Christianity.
held really the understanding of real Christianity.
We can say that more than being obsessed with Gnosticism, he was really obsessed with the most bizarre ideas also regarding magnetism.
We can say that more than being obsessed with Gnosticism, he was really obsessed with the most bizarre ideas also regarding magnetism.
We know that, of course, before him we had Mesmer, who was this guy who really was into this animal magnetism, this energy.
But Eliphas Levy was born in 1810.
He was born in 1810.
At a very young age, he was brought into the St. Sulpice Seminary to study, to enter the Roman Catholic priesthood as a subdeacon.
He was responsible for catechism.
And St. Sulpice is a very beautiful church in Paris.
It's a very historically important church in Paris.
I think actually, let me see if I don't get it wrong, but I think even Dan Brown features it at one point, if I remember well within one of his books.
It's like, I think, part of the Da Vinci Code story that he set up.
So he's basically inserting, in a way, some links to real things, you know, Dan Brown.
He picks up here and there and he gives some hints of real things.
So Saint Sulpice, this incredible church, which is also a seminary in France, became the place where he started his career.
Now, like I said, some researchers tend to say that he actually left because he was too much attracted by women.
At the same time, though, there is those who say like, like, I think, white, I mean, different.
I think various people talk about Elie Wiesel and of course, There wasn't really a bio of Eliphas Levi, but there was definitely a book done more than others.
I have here, for today, I have here various books and, as you can see, there is an image of Eliphas Levi featured also in Stanislao de Guaita's books, but this is See, and you can see this is the image that then is copied by the Satanic Temple, but the concept that he had was a very different concept from the Satanic Temple.
The other information comes from this, which is also basically another text that he Made for Baron Spedalieri, who is a Sicilian guy from a Neapolitan lodge that became after his main financer.
He came from the province of Catania from one of the most aristocratic families in Sicily.
This is the Memphis and Mizraim because of course he was connected also to the Mizraim that was a Sabbatean Frankish stronghold as you know.
The word occultism was also used a year before he came out for the first time in 1854.
It was also used by Ragon in his occult Freemasonry.
But Ragon, of course, was writing about Occult Freemasonry in a much more... it was like Eliphas Levi became More commercial than other people who have attempted similar things before him.
Let's say that other people had attempted to put together different ideas of magic and then he was more successful because he was literally a genius in a way.
He could actually get you acquainted through also citing things that you could relate with in your time.
Okay, so he will be talking about his time, for example, in the Dogmas and Rituals, which is the first book.
Actually, in reality, he wrote first Dogmas of Magic, and then later on he will publish the Dogmas and Rituals.
But in the Dogmas He starts talking also about his own experience in the vocation of Apollonius Tatiana, which happened when he broke from this lady he had been for a few years.
This lady, which, I mean, you have seen, of course, the guy in his later age.
This is an image of her in her later age, so I suspect she was a bit more decent earlier.
In any case, this was the wife that basically he was in a way forced to marry.
What happened was that he made her pregnant and he made her pregnant with twins.
They didn't survive.
Then he made her pregnant another time, this time with a girl.
And when this girl died, this woman left him and left him for the brother-in-law of the guy who actually initiated him and gave the name Eliphas Levi.
So, the story is the following.
This is also a famous sculpturist.
She was very, very clever in her sculptures.
She was an artist.
Who's that?
Oh, she made that.
She made that.
I thought it was a self-portrait.
But in any case, what happened was that... She actually looks like our neighbor.
Okay, in 1846, while still a minor, Cady eloped with Alphonse-Louise Constant, better known as Occultist Eliphas Levi.
Her father, a government official, forced Constant to marry her.
They had stillborn twins and then a daughter, Mary, who died in 1854 at the age of seven years.
So in 1854, Basically, then she left, you see, left Constan in the early 1850s for Marquis Alexandre Monferrier, brother-in-law of Messianist philosopher Joseph Maria Orenbronsky.
Now, this guy, This guy here is a Sabbatean Frankist, and it's not a small-time Sabbatean Frankist, but somebody who played an important role in the Sabbatean Frankist, and it's actually him who will initiate him.
And this also has been reported by Gerard and Cus Papus later on.
But he was very famous, this guy was a Polish messianist, philosopher, mathematician, physicist, inventor, and occultist, and economist.
Here you can go down, here even in the Wikipedia, and find the occultist Eliphas Levi, who met Ronski and was greatly impressed and attracted by his religious and scientific utopias.
Ronski was a popular catalyst for Levi's occultism.
But what they don't say here is that he also imposed, after his initiation, a Jewish name, and he transformed his own name in Eliphas Levi.
So, he was initiated by this gentleman, and the evidence, I mean, we're not talking about a small-time Frankist, we're talking about a guy who is cited amongst the big-time Frankists of his era.
In fact, this is a publication from the University of Columbia, so, you know, here we don't speculate, we don't just accuse people, oh, this is a Frankist, this is this, this is that.
Here we go by serious sources and, you see, Bronski says here, basically, in his speech he referred to the Frankist sect in the context of a general reflection on the messianic doctrine to which he claimed to adhere.
He mentioned the Frankists in relation to his Fellow countryman Oronsky, another messianic thinker, who basically is the guy who then initiated Eliphaz Levy, and this is a paper by David Ariza, which is Jews and Redemption Through Sin, a thesis for the Columbia University from 2021.
Here you see the direct connection that this guy, who was a Frankist, had with Eliphas Levi.
He actually initiated him.
He actually initiated him and gave him that name, Eliphas Levi.
that Eliphaz, because then he created this whole thing, Eliphaz, Zed, Levi, he made himself into something, but he could do it because he had been initiated.
And the moment he had been initiated, he also started to work on various things, Because before that, what did he do, this guy?
I mean, it's important to understand also that this guy was very much involved in politics.
That was his big passion.
Politics was his big passion.
But let me go to the image that everybody knows of Elie Wesselhevy, which is basically the Baphomet.
Which is important that we discuss, of course, because it's part of the history of the occult.
So we want to know more about how he got to create this.
I really dislike that daffodil figure.
Okay, so we have to understand how he created, what it really represents, and how it's been Kind of manipulating during the course of Aquatism and take different directions.
I mean, one thing about Eliphas Levi, he was the first one to say that if you use a reverse pentagram, it becomes satanic.
If you use it the correct way, it's not satanic.
And what did Anton LaVey did?
He picked up, he reversed the pentagram, and then he put the image of the bath on it.
I mean, definitely that was not something he would have done himself.
But in any case, let's explain a little bit more about the Baphomet, because this androgynous, goat-headed Baphomet is one of the most widely spread images in the esoteric world.
This is for sure.
The drawing was published for the first time in the Dogme de la Magie that came out in 1854.
And, of course, it was then featured as the front piece of the two-volume edition of Dogma Ritual, because from the Dogma of the Lot Magi, then it became the Dogmas and Rituals of High Magic.
And at that point, it started to become more and more popular.
It was picked up also by other people like Stanislas de Gaeta, but also other ones.
And in 2015, the so-called Satanic Temple unveiled this massive monument inspired by the Baphomet drawing with a lot of publicity on TV, you remember, CNN and things and everything began.
The Baphomet, the devil worship that is now has been established at least since the 1960s this connection, but of course it goes back to the end of the 19th century.
And we have also all the Leo Taxil books that outrageously depict Freemason worshiping all kinds of Luciferian hypotheticals.
But Eliphas Levi, in reality, Like I said, the variant that perhaps is the most evil one is the one that we know by Anton Labey, because he explicitly created it with evil intention, reversing this pentagram.
And at the same time, it's well known that Eliphaz Levy hardly qualifies as a Satanist, though, in the traditional sense, because as ghastly as he might appear,
When you actually study the work of Eliphas Levy in detail, you understand that his expression was much more complex, because he was not an anti-Christian, on the contrary of Crowley.
Crowley became somebody who relaunched the word Baphomet.
He actually wanted to worship himself as Baphomet.
He called himself Baphomet.
And Alistair Crowley was definitely an anti-Christian.
Ali Fastiba was never really anti-Christian.
He might not have been always consistent with his beliefs that were always a little bit fluxion.
First of all, he had this magnetism thing, this magnetism thing, this force that he talked about that represented this Baphomet.
We talked about Eliphas Levi also a few months back when Britney Spears published at one point the cover of a book of Eliphas Levi, you remember?
And I made an article.
Now, it's important to understand one thing about this book and especially this edition That Britney Spears posted on her social media because, you see, this edition, which is basically the doctrine and ritual, we call it, of high magic and no longer transcendental magic.
They go back to calling it closer to the old, to the meaning in French.
The problem is that the first translation This is recent, this translation.
This came out very recently.
It's not so long ago, but it's actually much more correct, this translation.
I always studied the Carl Riesky one, the Italian one, which is close to the French one, but I never understood why there were so many discrepancies with the English one.
Then I understood that the guy who translated Who called it basically Transcendental Magic.
He kind of like, he didn't do it, he did it because he actually had some intentions of manipulating.
So when you see the Transcendental Magic edition in English, I will avoid buying it by Arthur Edward White because Arthur Edward White was himself involved in this whole war of the magicians and stuff even.
There was at one point a real war between Satanists and stuff that happened that actually took place after the death of Eliphas Levi and after the death of another guy known as Eugène Wintras.
Very controversial guy, this guy.
Eugène Wintras became the medium of Eliphas Levi at one point, but he was a very controversial guy.
It is Satanism and the 19th century War of the Magicians.
And at one point there was this crazy war of various people.
This guy, Eugen Bintras, was a kind of a guru that claimed to have talked with various prophets from the Old Testament, and at one point he said he was the reincarnation of Elias, He had these crazy things that were happening.
He would levitate, but at the same time he would be doing the most obscure and demonic rituals.
Rumors of demonic rituals and sexual excesses swirled around him.
Winters was condemned by the Pope.
And accused by two followers in 1846 of homosexuality, conducting black masses in the nude and masturbating at the altar.
Despite all this, so there was a lot going on, I mean, guys, this was not like just a light stuff, but this guy was not Eliphaz Levy.
Eliphaz Levy went to him, went to him in the early 1860s because he wanted to
He wanted to transcribe some visions of this guy and these visions ended up becoming this booklet of the spirits that is then given to Baron Spadalieri who became his disciple but also his main, how we can say, sponsor because he was in need at one point
So what happens here is, first of all, we have to understand the life of this Eliphas Liver, because he wasn't necessarily as transgressive as Eugene Wintra.
He wasn't necessarily as transgressive.
He was a guy who was trying to find, to put together, he kind of had a very progressive view of Catholicism.
Today, actually, The guy that he followed most at that time is the guy who inspires more Pope Francis.
That guy?
No, I will show you the way.
First of all, for those who are following us, we are talking about Eliphas Levi.
Eliphas Levi was born with another name.
He wasn't Jewish.
We said that he was made Basically, he was initiated by a Sabbatean Frankist who was also very influential, and after that he took on, in the 1850s, the name Eliphas Liba.
At that point, what happened was, though, that after the death of his daughter in 1854, he was married to this woman that we showed earlier on.
Who, by the way, was also somehow related to this guy who initiated Eliphas Levi.
Eliphas Levi got initiated by Joseph Maria Ronsky in 1852, shortly before his death.
And, at that point, he got initiated and he married into this whole concept that, of course, was pushed by the Sabbatean Frankists, who, remember, had already created the Mizraim Rite.
They already created the Mizraim Rite.
They were about to absorb the Memphis Rite.
They were infiltrating various forms of Freemasonry.
But when Eliphas Levy himself joined Freemasonry later on, he actually abandoned it after a few months.
He was not very impressed with Freemasonry.
Something interesting happened.
In 1854, after the death of his daughter, he gets invited by this guy.
the death of his daughter, he gets invited by this guy.
This guy who invites him in London is not anybody.
He also is one of the most influential guys.
Why?
We talked about him already before, because he influenced very much Theosophy, influenced the Vril, the whole concept of the Vril.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton is a Lord Lytton, a very influential guy and he invites Eliphas Lev, he pays the trip for him to arrive to London where he will be given a special temple on top of, I think, in a he pays the trip for him to arrive to London where
He had everything set up for him with the golden pentagram, everything.
It was like he had to evoke something because this guy, this guy was very influential, but he also was somebody who wanted to really verify himself.
You see, Eliphas Levi was not always somebody who supported in any way Spiritism.
That was like the early years of Spiritism.
We had the Fox sisters here in America, they started to talk a lot about this Spiritism stuff.
Eliphas Levi always warned about the dangers of this stuff, about these entities, what they could do.
They could not be the dead people, but in reality entities that could absorb you.
So for him to actually evoke somebody, and not anybody, he decided to evoke a controversial figure called Apollonius Dattiana.
And he wanted to do this, and of course he was called by this Spadolittan, and when you go actually In the Dogmas of High Magic, which is his first book, because he launches himself with that book, that comes out the same year, basically.
He just goes back to Paris, writes down the book, and he brings it out at that point.
But he only gives the initials in the book of Bartlett, and he calls him BL.
He doesn't give the whole name, because, of course, he was a very influential guy, a weak member of Parliament.
He is the guy who influenced, Baudrillard will basically influence the birth of the Société Rosé-Couchane in Anglia, but we can say he died in 1873, but we can say that apart from that he influenced also the birth of the Golden Dungist as Eliphas Levi.
He was definitely a guy who wrote Very important Rosicrucian book, Zanoni, but he also wrote other pieces of poetry and literature that are considered important.
He was an academic, a scholar, he had a very big political career, so he was taken very seriously.
What happens is that he gets, you know, Eliphas Livy arrives in London, he gets picked up by this lady, all dressed up, put in a cape, he's all brought in a nice setup and Eliphas Livy understands that this guy wants to see something, he wants to... and in reality Eliphas Livy will manifest that something with Apollonius Tatiana, Apollonius Tatiana will tell him there is a book that needs to be found in a certain place, the Nuc Tamerun,
And that Nook Tameron will contain the names of the demons that then will be picked up by each head of the Mizraim Order for the next few decades.
The name Pappos actually comes from the Nook Tameron of Eliphas Levi.
It's not a real name, it's an initiatic name from a demon that is picked up by Gerard and Kuss.
Other names from this book are picked up and used But what I'm going to make you read, Christy, because this is very interesting, is, of course, how all this happened.
And, you know, we went, of course, we discussed the fact that he inspired the Baphomet.
And, of course, his ideas were at times a romanticized idea of esotericism.
Like, for example, he was fixated with the tarochs.
Actually, in a way that I learned a lot from him when I was starting my studies, because the approach of the tarochs was not the approach of divination, but was more the use of the tarochs in an analogic interpretation of reality connected to the 22 letters but was more the use of the tarochs in an This is still my original copy from when I was like 20, and in fact it's consumed.
I don't even have the cover.
I asked my mother to send me the cover.
But in this, there were images that I stand in front and watch for hours to understand, because also the drawings of Elie Werseley were very significant.
For example, this book in particular, each chapter is connected to a specific Jewish letter, a specific Tarot card, a specific part of the Sephiroth, I mean, it is obvious that once you understand the way that Eliphas Levi is putting things through, you enter into a completely different understanding of reality.
So, the thing is, Was Eliphaz Levy a bad person or was Eliphaz Levy a good person?
Eliphaz Levy was, I think, a person that in his lifetime didn't have all the followers he had after he died.
He was probably much more, from what I studied and I discovered of him, the real success arrived after his death.
A lot of his books got published also after his death.
His understanding of the Kabbalah was very vast, of course.
He inspired other people who were not Jewish to eventually go further in certain studies.
But let's not forget that he was connected directly with the Sabbatean Frankies, because in the end we have discovered that everything is connected to them.
The Sabatian Frank is Max Theon, then there is this connection with Eliphas Levi, so there's a direct connection to Bradam Blavatsky.
So last week we Explored and explained how the Sabbatean Frankists basically developed in the Middle East from the Muslim Brotherhood, all that stuff that unfortunately manifested within the Salafi movement and became Salafi jihad basically.
And then on the other side we saw how it Manifested the Theosophical Society, but the Theosophical Society was born at the moment in which Eliphas Levi died from people who actually were taking care of him.
So, there was a direct connection there.
people who actually were with him, and Madame Blavatsky was, of course, very much an admirer of him.
Now, Elie Watzlewi's real name was Alphonse Louis Costant.
He was born into humble origins and circumstances in Paris.
Like I said, the parish priest arranged for the young Alphonse to get the appropriate education for a career in the Catholic Church.
All was well until not long after he was ordained a deacon.
He was assigned to teach the catechism classes in a girls' school.
I mean, he saw the girls and he fell in love with one of his students.
That was basically the end of his Career in the clergy.
Though he didn't act on the attraction, the experience convinced him that he was not cut out for a celibate life.
And he left the church and started a career as a writer instead.
So, what happened at that point?
At that point, he wrote a book entitled The Bible of Liberty.
Now this book cost him.
He was confiscated by the Paris police an hour after it went on sale.
He was arrested and it was a period of repressive politics because this reoccurring socialist communist agenda kept on resurfacing and resurfacing again and again within, you know, after the Illuminati had buried their seeds and kind of like Continuing to produce now, even within the Romantic movement.
And so, we saw how, for example, all those people, also that with Mary Shelley and Lord Byron, they all kind of, they were aristocratic, they loved Gothic romances, but they were also very leftist minded.
And they kind of just stayed like that.
And they stayed like that, unfortunately.
And I have direct experience of that kind of people, because I was brought up amongst those people.
It's like, yeah, I know, I know.
They never change.
Now, regarding Occultism, in 1853, This old man, Josef Maria Olejnowski, who was this Polish Jewish Sabbatean Frankist, and one of the greatest Jewish intellectuals of his time, who was living in exile in Paris, Since his homeland had been conquered and partitioned by the Germans and the Russians, he basically was a gift for Elie Wiesel.
He kind of like a lot of people think that at one point you meet your master and everything comes into place and for him it was that was the experience that he had.
And so towards the end of his life he had also become fascinated with the Kabbalah.
We probably Need to understand that this means that there was a connection with the Jewish tradition, but it wasn't your classical one, let's say.
The Kabbalah got into the Western occult tradition by the way of Jewish mystics, we know that, but I will not say that this guy was a traditional Jewish mystic.
In any case, he started to study elements that were also, you know, and there is the Judaism also acquainted with Gnostic sources, but in reality that the Sabbatian Frankist, that's what it is.
The fact that he went on, this Frankist, and he was part of, I mean, the Frankists were an heretical movement, and so, but they had, if you remember well, the Frankists had also built with the cousin of Jacob Frank, the the Frankists had also built with the cousin of Jacob Frank, the Within the Rosicrucian, the Golden Rosicrucian, their own Masonic, and then with the Miser and they started to pick up and even more.
So they were already in all this and they were active in the Illuminati.
So Eliphas Levi, of course, he wanted to become involved, I guess.
He kind of, so Alphonse Costin, as he was called before becoming, because it was Ronski who gave him the name.
studied with him for the last year or so of this old mystic's life, gathered this experience, then went to London, had this other experience, this other experience which we said we should cite a little bit better.
In fact, I have a... because it's important to understand what happened to Because I think, you know, these were the experiences that then manifest in him those books.
I always see that with myself, you know, you are what you manifest, you know, what you were and then you manifest in your books.
So I always like to analyze somebody by his experiences and then what they manifest in the writing, in the studies and stuff.
And so he was very much into this kind of Catholicism, which at the time wasn't really mainstream, but it was also very progressive.
And it's this guy here who really was his inspirator.
so then you can all understand what kind of school he was following, let's say.
"Felicite de la Menée" "Felicite de la Menée" I know, what's this guy?
I know, what a weirdo, huh?
"Felicite de la Menée" Okay, so who was this guy?
Now, this Catholic priest, he was one of the most influential intellectuals of restoration in France.
Lamennais is considered the forerunner of liberal Catholicism and social Catholicism.
Is he Pope Francis' mentor?
Yes, absolutely.
This is where it comes from.
Nowadays, his stuff is really not considered traditional at that time, but nowadays it's mainstream, because nowadays that kind of Catholicism is the mainstream Catholicism, which is basically destroying because nowadays that kind of Catholicism is the mainstream Catholicism, which is He himself had to suffer exile, return, and then he was ordained and all that.
At one point he had escaped to London.
And then he returned after Napoleon was overthrown.
So, I mean, this kind of person was not your traditional Catholic.
And he was not the only one that he was following, but he was following what is now known as Catholic social teaching.
And I show you this.
So, Elie Wiesel was very much into Catholic social teaching, and it's an area of Catholic doctrine which is directly linked to Pope Francis.
Pope Francis here, according to Cardinal Basper, has made mercy the key word of his pontificate.
While scholastic theology has neglected this topic, And he turned it into a mere subordinate theme of justice.
So for him, it's one of the main things of his pontificate, you know, that the good, the social, the social, which is basically transforming the Catholic doctrine into not a surrogate of capitalism, but in this case, into a surrogate of communism, because that's what is really happening.
So here we have Elipha Slave.
who goes to London.
And that's where I want to pick up with Christy, because there is the whole preliminaries and the whole story.
So Christy can read it to you and we can enjoy it.
Okay, put it as big as possible.
Here, let's go to the beginning of the story when they basically, when he arrived in London, no?
In the spring of the year, 1854.
Okay.
In the spring of the year, 1854, I had undertaken a journey to London.
So, the scene was this.
The little daughter died.
The wife left him for this other, for the Marquis.
And basically he was, he had nothing for him to go in France.
He even said himself, he gets caught to London by this powerful Illuminati.
And this is what happens.
So just immerse yourself in the year 1854.
Okay, I had undertaken a journey to London that I might escape from internal disquietude and devote myself without interruptions to science.
I had letters of introduction to persons of eminence who were anxious for revelations from the supernatural world.
I made the acquaintance of several "...and discovered in them immense much that was courteous, a depth of indifference or trifling.
They asked me forthwith to work wonders, as if I were a charlatan, and I was somewhat discouraged for to speak frankly, far from being inclined to initiate others into the mysterious ceremonial magic." So he wasn't there to initiate anyone into ceremonial magic.
I had shrunk all along from its illusions and weariness.
Moreover, such ceremonies necessitated an equipment which would be extensive and hard to collect.
In the meantime, I will...
So, moreover, such ceremonies necessitate an equipment which will be extensive and hard to collect.
I buried myself, therefore...
And here I will get Christy to continue. - Right.
All right, maybe I can see now.
Let's see if I can manage to Because it's not easy here, because I kind of lost myself now.
Okay, just a second, because I know exactly where I am, and I know exactly which page.
This is a book that I read in various languages, so I kind of know almost by heart.
So here, because I wanted to attempt understanding what he did, and to understand what he did, it's very important to then understand what went on in that period in the Illuminati.
So, here we have with I Buried Myself Before in the Study of Transcendental Kabbalah.
And troubled no further about English the depths, when returning one day to my hotel, I found a note awaiting me.
This note contained half of a card divided transversely, on which I recognized at once the seal of Solomon.
It was accompanied by a small sheet of paper on which these words were penciled.
Tomorrow at three o'clock in front of Westminster Abbey, the second half of this card will be given to you.
I kept this curious assination.
At the appointed spot, I found a carriage drawn up and as I held...
Uneffectively, the fragment of the card in my hand, a footman approached making a sign as he did so.
and they opened the door of the keepage, which is, I guess, a carriage, no?
Yeah.
It's a carriage, okay.
It contained a lady in black wearing a... So imagine this scene.
The carriage arrives in front of Westminster Abbey.
We are in that kind of scenario, typical of Sherlock Holmes.
Typical of a London full of smog, full of... it's a little bit cloudy, it's a bit rainy, and there he has this dark carriage arriving and this woman dressed in black that opens the door.
I mean, it's very picturesque.
Okay, let's go. let's go.
Sir, she began with a strongly marked English accent.
I am aware that the law of secrecy... And here it says Sir Barton Lytton.
The B-L is Barton Lytton.
It's basically, here it's not, it's only the initial written, but basically it's Balwer Lytton, who is the guy we discussed before.
So here I can give you the full name so you can maybe Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
So, here we go.
Sir, she began with a strongly marked English accent.
Why don't you do it, though?
Well, I mean, I don't... You have a better accent.
No.
I am aware of the law of secrecy in this earth.
That's how they talk in England, you know that.
Yeah.
So that's how they talk.
They used to talk like that here, too, in the beginning.
Well, I guess so.
So, in the law of secrecy, it is rigorous among others.
A friend of Sir Bob Wilton, who has seen you, knows that you have been asked for phenomena.
What?
You've been asked for a phenomena, and that you have refused to gratify such curiosity.
You are probably without the materials.
Okay.
I should like to show you a complete magical cabinet, but I must exact beforehand the most inviolable silence.
If you will not give me this pledge upon your honor, I shall give orders for you to be driven to your hotel.
I made the required promise and kept it faithfully, but not divulging the name, position, or abode of this lady, whom I soon recognize as an initiate, not exactly of the first order, but still of the most exalted grade.
We had a number of long conversations in the course of which, where am I?
In the course of which she insisted upon the necessity of practical experience and complete initiation.
She showed me a collection of magical vestments and instruments, lent me some rare books which I needed.
In short, she determined me to attempt at her house the experiment of a complete evocation.
For which I prepared during a period of 21 days, scrupulously observing the rules laid down in the 13th chapter of the ritual.
people.
The Preliminaries terminated on the 2nd of July.
It was proposed to evoke the Phantom of the Divine Apollonius.
First of all, when he's talking about 13th chapter of the age, he's talking about his dogmas and rituals.
And, of course, here is still the dogmas.
But he's...
Okay.
So the preliminaries he terminated...
So he terminated all these preliminaries on the 2nd of July.
Okay.
It was proposed to evoke the Phantom of the Divine Apollonius and interrogated upon two secrets.
On which concern myself and on...
One which concerned myself and one which interested the lady.
She had...
Counted on taking part in the abdication with a trustworthy person who, however, proved nervous at the last moment and as the triad or unity is indispensable for magic rituals, it was left to my own resources.
So basically because they were left to this, somebody didn't show up and he was left on his own.
Basically, this seems to be what happened.
The cabinet prepared for the evocation was situated in a turret.
It contained four... So, a turret is basically like... What's a turret?
A turret is like in a castle, the single, where you lock up people in a tower.
A turret is a tower.
Oh, it's a tower.
Okay.
Where am I?
Okay, so the turret was the place where basically this temple... It contained four concave mirrors and a species of altar having a white marble top encircled by a chain of magnetized iron.
The sign of the pentagram, as given in the fifth chapter of this work, was graven and gilded on the white marble surface It was inscribed also in various colors upon a new white lambskin stretched beneath the altar.
In the middle of the marble table, there was a small copper chaffing dish containing charcoal of alder and laurel wood.
Another chaffing dish was set before me on a tripod.
I was clothed in a white garment.
Clothed.
Clothed He gets picked up.
They said, okay, you need a place where to do this ritual, which is a proper place.
He prepares.
He does this preparation to a number of days and he arrives to the 2nd of July.
2nd of July, at this point, he goes into this place and he starts this ritual.
Let's see what happens because it gets very interesting.
Yeah.
Do I look like a doofus?
No, I hope not.
I don't think so.
I do look like a doofus.
Why don't you read it?
Why?
Okay, put it up.
Where is it?
Okay, so let's see what happens at this point.
Where am I?
Okay, so we are basically, I was clothed in a white garment, very similar to the elbow of our Catholic priest, but longer and wider.
And I wore upon my head a crown of verben leaves interweaned with a golden chain.
I held a new sword in one hand and in the other, the ritual.
I kindled two fires with the...
I can't read anymore.
I kindled two files with the requisite prepared substances and began reading the vocation of the ritual in a voice at first slow but rising by degrees.
The smoke spread, the flame caused the objects upon with the felt to waver.
When I went out, the smoke still floating around, floating white and slow about the marble altar.
I seemed to feel a quaking of the earth.
My ears tingled.
My heart beat quickly.
I hit more twigs and perfumes on the chaffing dishes, and as the flames again burst up, I beheld distantly before the altar the figure of a man of more than normal size, which dissolved and vanished away.
I recommended the vocation and placed myself within a circle which I had drawn previously between the tripod and the altar.
Thereupon the mirror which was behind the altar seemed to brighten in its depth.
A one form was outlined therein which increased and seemed to approach by degrees.
Three times and with closed eyes I invoked Apollonius.
When I again looked forth, there was a man in front of me, wrapped from head to foot in a species of shroud which seemed more grey than white.
He was lean, melancholy, and bedless, and did not altogether correspond to my preconceived notion of Apollonius.
I experienced an abnormal cold sensation, and when I endeavored to question the phantom, I could not articulate a syllable.
I therefore placed my hand upon the sign of the pentagram and pointed the sword at the figure, commanding it mentally to obey and not alarm me in virtue of the said sign.
The form thereupon became vague and suddenly disappeared.
I directed it to return, and presently felt, as it were, a breath close by me.
Something touched my hand, which was holding the sword, and the arm became immediately benumbed as far as the elbow.
I divined that the sword displaced the spirit, and I therefore placed it point downwards, close by me, within the circle.
The human figure reappeared immediately, but I experienced such an intense weakness In all my limbs, a swooning sensation came so quickly over me that I made two steps to site down, whereupon I fell into a profound lethargy, accompanied by dreams, of which I had only a confused recollection, with a came again to myself.
For several subsequent days, my arm remained benumbed and painful.
The apparitions did not speak to me, but it seemed that the questions I had designed to ask answered themselves in my mind.
To that, the lady The lady, an interior voice, replied, deaf.
It was concerning a man about whom she desired information.
As for myself, I sought to know whether reconciliation and forgiveness were possible between two persons who occupied my thoughts.
That's terrible!
maybe his wife, and the same inexorable echo within me answered, dead.
I am stating facts as they occurred, but it would impose faith on no one.
The consequence of this experience of myself must be called inexplicable.
I was no longer the same man, something of another world had passed into me.
And that is basically what started the experience of Eliphas Levy.
At Polonius, Tatiana was a first century Greek philosopher, a religious leader, a controversial guy.
Some people say he was a miracle worker, a kind of somebody like Simon Magus or even Jesus.
He was definitely a very Very powerful man, he was tried for using magic in ancient Rome, Apollonius Tatiana, and he was basically tried because they said he was conspiring against the emperor using his magic.
He was so powerful, Apollonius Tatiana, back in those days that they even had statues of him in some cities.
When he was alive?
Yeah, so the guy was like really something else.
But he was born into a wealthy and aristocratic background, so here we are, in a wealthy and aristocratic background, in London, with the support of one of the guys considered the head of the Illuminati, Bartle Lytton, the head, and also politically very powerful, because he would become the head of the colonies when the Great Britain had the biggest empire on the planet.
This guy goes to his friend a little bit depressed and comes back to Paris that summer and he's actually at that point he has a little bit of money because they gave him some money after what he did I mean after what he managed to manifest and there was some some testimonies to what went on.
I wonder how much you get for that?
I don't know, but the thing was that his life didn't get better, though, because of that.
But he went immediately back to Paris.
He was guested, I think, in a place also of somebody who was himself a clairvoyant or something.
And then he ended up publishing his first book, His Dogmas, that started to become very popular in a situation in which he was Like I said, he wasn't condemning the Catholic Church.
He was actually quite on the defensive when it comes to his origins as a Catholic, but he wanted to integrate it with magic that he himself almost thought it was real Catholicism.
I mean, it's pretty far out, but that's what was happening.
We said that he had ideas about concepts, concepts that he manifested, because here we have, first of all, His experience.
And this experience that he had in London manifested the writing called the Nook Tameron, which we discussed, which is basically, I'm going to show it to you.
It's in French, of course.
I don't think, I mean, it's not included in the English translation.
Definitely not in the Transcendental Magic one.
I don't know if it's included in the latest version, but it was like an additional thing.
And just to show you here, The demons that basically then became people, manifest as people.
This is their ritual, the Legnuc Tameron, that basically, and the incredible thing is that He saw himself as a revolutionary high priest, saying that most of the high priests of the past had been involved with politics, with magic, with this and with that.
That's, you know, when it happens.
And in this Noctameron, there is various days of the week.
I mean, we have also the English translation, but not the For example, the name Pappus, that became the name of one of the most famous initiates, it was the head of the spirit of medicine in the genies.
This is all the genies with the names, see?
Pappus.
Haven, Mark Haven, became also an author and stuff.
Well, he's a genie della dignità.
He's another genie.
They just took on the names of genies.
And this happened for many other grandmasters of the Mitzrayim rite, which itself, of course, was born out of the Bedarid, who was a domen, who was a Sabbatea.
And so it was all connected to the same heresy.
The interesting thing here also regarding his work is also, of course, this life force concept, which also became... There are various concepts.
First of all, he's the guy who popularized the word occult.
If you go in every dictionary in the world, they will tell you that he is the one who basically launched the World of Cannes.
He is the guy who picked up and launched the word Egregore.
He is the guy who also basically creates the Baphomet, but Baphomet in his intention was the representation of the astral light.
Now, what is the astral light?
Why is it a goat?
The God of Men, that's also one question, because when you see, where does he take his inspiration?
He takes his inspiration from the old Sabbatic kind of... it's obvious, no?
Or, for example, the inspiration can also be seen from the Tarot cards.
That is pretty obvious also.
in the Baphomet of Eliphas Levi, from the Tarot de Marseille, even from the one of the guy who actually translated Transcendential Magic, White, who made that other tarot.
I mean, you can see, of course, the similarities.
But then we have a guy, an Italian guy, who made the Compendium Maleficarum, which I actually cite in Volume 9.
The fact that Volume 9 has this cover is because the cover of the Compendium Maleficarum, the cover, was very inspirational to all these people.
And it was actually made by an Italian, of course.
Here it is.
This was...
The Compendium Maleficarum is one of those books that they used to use during the Witch Hunters Manual, basically, and it was written in Latin by Francesco Maria Guazzo and published in Milan.
This representation, of course, shows a baphomet-like figure.
And so he must have definitely know about that because, of course, he cites also some of these books in his work.
But like we said, it's important to understand that he was there doing all these things in a specific moment of time in which I think he was very much helped by Satan.
helped by the fallen angels in manifesting all this.
That's why he managed to become so powerful, so influential.
This astral light that he defined as the Baphomet is basically the medium of all light, energy and movement.
And Blavatsky adopted this term.
Blavatsky, of course, held in high esteem Eliphas Levi and Eliphas Levi wrote within of course the dogmas of magic the dogmas and rituals actually in this case the following regarding his explanation about this force that I would like Christy to read there exists a nature of force infinitely exceeding that of steam,
a force that would enable the man incapable of a force that would enable the man incapable of seizing and directing it to charge the face of the world.
To change the face of the world.
Yeah, I can't see them right, because I can't read the screen.
Okay, no worries, no worries.
The Ancient New Disforce.
Now, Eliphas Livy says, it consists, quote, in a universal agent whose supreme law is equilibrium and whose direction is directly related to the greater canon of transcendental magic.
Though the use of this agent, one can change the very orders of the seasons, produce the phenomenon of day in the middle of the night, enter his antennas into contact with the farthest ends of the earth, see events on the other side of the world, enter his antennas into contact with the farthest ends of the earth, see events Heal or attack at distance and confer on one speech universal success and influence.
This agent, barely glimpsed by the grouping disciple of Mesmer, is nothing other than the first matter of the great work of the medieval adepts.
Now, I said that he basically picked up on the animal magnetism of Mesmer, but he was actually fairly critical of it, though he had actually studied and he cites during his though he had actually studied and he cites during his books one guy who used to be a A student of Mesmer that he thinks was inspirational for him.
So I wanted to actually cite him today.
It's the Baron de Potey.
Baron de Potey was basically this guy here.
He looks pretty far out, this guy too.
Here we are with this obscure French Illuminati.
Baron de Pute, here he was.
He looks French.
He looks very French.
The Baron basically was a French esoterist involved in animal magnetism.
He was born in 1796, died in 1881.
1796, died in 1881.
He was a highly successful mesmerist.
And basically he worked, but as you can see, mesmerist worldwide, Mesmerism was not unlike utopian socialism.
So you see, there is always a connection also with politics.
And on top of that, he was linked, of course, later on he became a member to the Theosophical Society.
where he was regarded as an adept by Madame Blavatsky.
He, of course, was cited by Eliphas Levy, who praised him in History of Magic, which is another important book of Eliphas Levy.
So this guy very much influenced his knowledge of animal magnetism.
Let's remember, mesmerism influenced what is later known as hypnotism.
But what Eliphas Levi was claiming was that he was much more powerful with his teachings than these kind of people.
He had this brief experience in Freemasonry that didn't last that much.
This happened in the 1860s.
And I'll tell you what happened later on, though.
He met because, thanks to this connection which the Italians always have in the French lodges, he ended up connecting with an Italian, which was Barones Pedaglieri, but his actual time in Freemasonry lasted very little.
He was initiated on March 1861 and he already was dropped Rhodes on August 1861.
He apparently went through He actually went through all the degrees from what I know.
I remember I actually saw his passage to Master Mason, whatever.
So he went for a period, but he said that basically he didn't like the fact that the Freemasons at that time were not tolerant of Catholics.
He felt like they were not.
And also, remember, He was involved in Freemasonry in the Grand Orient of France, when the Grand Orient of France was about to become irregular and abandon the belief in God.
10 years later, 15 years later, the world becomes schismatic.
So, his time in Freemasonry was relative, but in that year, in 1861, something happens.
It comes into connection with the Italian Illuminati of what will become later on the Grand Orientus Iride Egizio.
At the time, it was known as the Napolitan school, the one that gave birth to the Arcana, Arcanorum of Calliostro.
Naples had the most powerful initiates, and Eliphas Levi got in contact with one of them who became his disciple once he moved to Marseille.
This gentleman was a Sicilian guy from one of the most noble families in Sicily.
Let's say now it's...
It's called Nicholas Joseph Spedalieri.
I will show briefly, there is no bio of him in English, but he was Eliphas Levi's favorite disciple, and he's the guy who will maintain him until his death.
Now, this guy, Nicholas Joseph Spedalieri, This Sicilian gentleman from Catania, from a very powerful family, was born in a little village on the sides of Catania.
It's called Bronte there, on the pendici of the volcano, the Etna, on the sides of the volcano.
He was basically a baron, a Sicilian baron, so the young baron was very much interested in studying the occult.
He became interested with Martinez de Pasquali, with Louis-Claude Saint-Martin, so people that we now recognize as being part of what is known as the Martinist school.
But he met a monk called Don Antonio Marino.
Now, Don Antonio Marino was a monk, an Augustinian monk in Naples, but he was also the supreme grand hierophant of the Egyptian right in Naples.
It sounds strange that the Catholic, but you know, they do everything in the country, everything, you know?
He basically was regarded as a Neapolitan from Catania, because at that time it was called Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, and everybody living in the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies was called a Neapolitan.
Even if you were from Sicily.
You could have been a call in Nepal.
Of course, I was a Neapolitan from the beginning.
I was a nobleman.
That's right, I'm from Campania.
No, you're from Naples.
You're from Naples, but you're actually from the Campania region.
Yes, yes, yes.
So Catani is in Sicily instead.
But even if he was from Sicily, he was still a Napoleon.
And plus, he, of course, became acquainted with all the Illuminati in Naples.
And at that point, he moved in the early 1850s to Marseille with his family.
And later on, he became the favorite disciple of Eliphas Levi.
Eliphas Levi!
I mean, gave books to him.
I mean, this book is not only dedicated, it is copied for exclusive use of Baron Spadalieri.
He actually gives these books only to him and says, these are for your exclusive use.
And inside there is all the seals of all the demons possible and imaginable, but also the seals of the Rosicrucian secrets.
It's very particular, but also there is, and this is something I discussed in The Invisible Master, if you remember, in The Spirits, there is those prophecies about the future that he makes about the end times, the year 2000 and all that.
Now, how did that come along?
He went to the Lodge, he met, basically got to meet Baron Spadalieri, they became, you know, that was where the link started.
Because then Baron Spadalieri had another gentleman at that time who was also coming to the Lodge in France.
And this guy is also an aristocrat known as the magician of Torre Annunziata, which is like the most typical place where you can get a great pizza in Naples, that I can assure you.
But it is also known as some serious place for black magic of all kinds.
Alchemists!
You have to understand Naples is filled up with tunnels and what happens under there still to this day is high magic.
I've heard a lot about that.
Yes, yes, yes, absolutely.
And actually I had, as a member of my lodge, an aristocratic from Naples, a representative of this circle still to this day, that used to be a member of my lodge, who was also a doctor, used to work in a hospital if you remember.
And basically, so what happens is Giustiliano Nebano, known as Ceritus Us, known as the witch of Torre Annunziata, the Stregone.
Here is the Stregone of Torre Annunziata.
It looks like Giovanni the dentist.
I don't know, it looks like somebody could be making panettone, but in any case... Everybody looks like somebody today.
Okay, so what happens is this guy is the guy who will create the Grande Oriente Osirideo Egizio.
Together with some other very powerful people.
And, of course, he was connected to Eli Vassilevi and to Giuliano Kremers, Ciro Formisano, the guy who founded the Therapeutics, which I also talked about in Volume 1.
And, of course, he was part of the Theosophical Society.
And, of course, he knew Alexander Dumas.
Not only he knew Dumas.
All these clowns knew each other.
Not only, no, but look at this.
He knew Alexandre Dumas, the guy who wrote The Three Musketeers, but Alexandre Dumas, he picked up weapons for the Mille when they were unifying Italy with Garibaldi.
He brought weapons to the guy.
I mean, they were doing... And he knew the Bedarid brothers, the founder of the Miserere, right, who were the Francis, the Sabatini, and the Domme.
So you see guys, it's all interconnected, they're all basically all part of the same scheme, and this is historical.
So you see, Eliphas Levi goes and connects with the Sabbatean Frankists and then automatically gets in contact with all the aristocracy, all the aristocracy of the Illuminati.
He becomes a teacher for them, of course a precious one with all his knowledge.
Very much appreciated by people, like I said, like Madame Blavatsky later on, but of course all this is part of a big nucleus of people who have definitely changed the history of humanity because, I mean,
Only the fact that, for example, when you talk about the occult, you're talking about Eliphas Levi, you're talking about after Blavatsky, you're talking about, of course, Papus, you're talking about the people who have given us This knowledge that basically they claimed was coming from Atlantis, it was coming from ancient Egypt.
At times even erroneously, because when it comes to the Taroks, Elie Wieseliewicz claimed... Did he claim he was in Atlantis?
No, he claimed that the Taroks came from ancient Egypt, but we know that for example they are a typical product of the Italian Renaissance.
Okay, they are probably, but for him, in his romantic view of things, so let's say this, when it comes to the knowledge that you can get from the books of Eliphas Levi, and of course I advise all those people who are interested in studying them, but of course never practicing anything, because the good thing about Eliphas Levi's books is that you don't necessarily have to practice any ritual, you can also take only the historical side of things,
And just go with that.
No, you shouldn't do anything.
You know, but also when it comes to the historical side, always keep in mind that he had a very romanticized view of things and sometimes embellished things or he tended to, he wasn't so, you know, so not him, but, you know, like I said, the Taroks.
Exaggerated?
Well, no, the Taroks are not from ancient Egypt, but they claim, you know, from an ancient origin in that way, he kind of embellishes, oh, they come from, you know, like, but Regarding the way that the socialist roots and utopian dream of Elif Aslevi, there is a phrase from Transcendental Magic, in this case the Transcendental Magic translation comes into help.
Some of the most persuasive revolutionaries in history have been renegade clerics.
rituals of Eliphas Lever.
But in this case, you can read it, Christine.
Some of the most persuasive revolutionaries in history have been renegade clerics.
Moses, for example, was said to be learned in all the wisdom of Egyptians.
A number of Hellenistic writers, as shown by Herbert Barterich in his work Moses the Egyptian, took this to mean that Moses was a hierogratimist.
Hierogramateus.
Hierogramateus.
A scribe priest says, Similarly, it seems, Zoroaster, years before he unveiled the Gospel of Allura Mazda, had cut his teeth in the priestcraft of Old Persia.
I can read it better when you have it like that.
Perfect!
So, and then he basically goes on explaining that in the Renaissance times, you know, you have the people like Giordano Bruno, Tommaso Campanella, in a way, they have
But in the 19th century, we can say that Eliphas Levi has done a job that inherited the mantle of the subversive religionist, half poet, half socialist, half occultist, man of science, but the science of the magi.
He is definitely a forerunner to Aleister Crowley, but Aleister Crowley, I guess, is much more anti-Christian and much more evil in nature.
Sometimes Eliphas Levi seems to just bumble along And being, you know, very much a nerd into his things and stuff, but he never, I think, had the same network that Crowley had, that was much more of a sectarian nature, you know, with the O.T.O.
and getting elected and being the Grand Master.
He didn't want that kind of attention.
He preferred the Attention of one good student, like for example Baron Spedelieri, who had connection with the right people on Naples, that connection in Avignon.
He didn't want to have the responsibility of dealing, I guess, like instead Crowley with a more open kind of open court of magicians.
And Elena Blavatsky, In a letter written in 1881, wrote and praised about Eliphas Livy, saying, the most learned Kabbalist and occultist of our age.
This is how she described Eliphas Livy.
Levi is of course a controversial guy, that's for sure, but also the work that he did with Lord Edward Barton Lytton meant that in a way he had been given a possibility.
Manifest something, show us that you are really who you say you are, and that's what he did.
Now, that makes me think, because when it comes to this particular book, in 1861, after he started his Friendship with Spedalieri, the first thing that he wanted to give him was this book with seals and stuff.
He gave him 10 different courses on Kabbalah, basically, you know, various essays and stuff.
But there was this particular essay, The Spirits, which I include in The Invisible Master, which is a book, of course, that I published.
And it's a book in which I cite these spirits, because his prophecies are about why these things are manifesting.
When is the Antichrist manifesting?
Why all these spirits that we now call UFOs, basically, and lights, these forces?
It was almost like he was describing the world,
What we are living now, and what will happen once the messianic era arrives with the return of Jesus, that basically he discusses here, will be announced by Enoch and Elia, and at that point there will be a thousand years, a thousand years of this messianic age, and all this was done with kabbalistic calculations.
It's interesting that he went to that Eugène Wintras, who was such a controversial character.
Why did he trust Wintras?
Was Wintras capable of giving him information that he... because apparently it influenced very much the work he'd done in regard to Spiritism, because he was starting to get interested.
Allan Kardec also was Launching what is now known as Spiritism.
Spiritism was becoming popular.
He wanted to have something, but this time he didn't want to be himself the medium.
He wanted to have an external medium to be himself more critical and to be able to work it in a different way, I guess.
Because, you see, At one point here in his testimony of what happened in London, he says, am I crazy or am I seeing it for real?
He's kind of asking, you know, making questions to himself, you know, on the genuinity of what he has perceived or what he has seen.
So I think that then he wanted to go to this Eugen Bintras.
And the strange thing about it is that both him and Eugen Bintras die A few months from each other, and then the magical war starts from this guy who claims to be the heir of Eugene Winters, and declares war, and then the war starts between the Stylians, now the Guaita, this other guy, and everybody... And how do they war each other?
What do they do exactly?
Well, they... curses that end up with people... They throw, like, demons on each other?
And then people die, some of these... That's so stupid!
And it was...
It's just so dumb.
I know, but the incredible thing about it all is that the actual war of the magicians starts only after he dies.
And it starts after he dies, after Eugene Winters dies, and it's the year in which, of course, the Theosophical Society, because at that point, you know, we know what happens.
We've been discussing this also a little bit in previous episodes, the importance of the year 1875.
Because the year 1875 is the year in which the Theosophical Society is founded, Alice Hare Crow is born, Eliphas Levi dies, Eugen Vintras dies, Rudolf Fosentop is Eugen Vintras dies, Rudolf Fosentop is born.
So it's like...
It's all getting like reincarnated. - He died and so he he that's why he thinks that Alistair Crowley because he died.
Because he died and then he was born and then of course Alistair Crowley saw himself connecting with the birth of the Theosophical Society.
The fact that the Theosophical Society was then founded by somebody who had actually you know given a place to stay and you know at the end Eliphas Livre was basically living with friends of Madame Blavatsky who then say, okay, now that Eliphas Livre is dead, we have to create this great depository of knowledge, and we call it the Theosophical Society.
And then everybody becomes part of it that was already part of the network that Eliphas Livre didn't really live that much.
He died quite young.
He wasn't that old when he died.
I mean, he was born in 1810.
He died in 1875.
He was basically 60 or 65 years old when he died.
They didn't live that long back then.
No, no, it's not true.
There were people... It was?
No, no, no.
There were people... It was not true?
No, there were people who lived much longer.
They did?
Yeah, sure, of course.
Oh, I didn't know.
I thought that people, like, we live longer now.
Of course, more people live longer, but some people live longer, absolutely.
Like that person I showed you before who inspired Eliphas Levi, but then he actually outlived Eliphas Levi and became himself a member of the Theosophical Society.
Baron du Potet was born in 1796 and died in 1881.
He didn't really live that long.
And he himself, of course, had suffered probably a lot in a life in which he said it was all influenced by magnetic currents.
And basically, I mean, it's about magnetic currents, it's about spirits.
And it's about, also, timescares and stuff, letting you know very much what he was dealing with.
I hope that you enjoyed today's episode.
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Here we are.
And I'm gonna get Rambo.
Okay, and we want to wish you a great Merry Christmas.
I hope you enjoyed this year, this exploration of the Illuminati occult, that of course it's gonna terminate with a great review of the whole year, but today, the last subject.
He's wearing his Santa Claus.
Absolutely.
He's wearing his pajamas.
And we have a message from him from Donald Trump.
It says from Donald, you have a terrific chihuahua, the best.
Other chihuahuas, total disasters.
Everyone agrees.
Believe me, your dog is a winner.
I should have said it like that.
You have a terrific chihuahua, the best.
Other chihuahuas, total disasters.
Everyone agrees.
Believe me, your dog is a winner.
See, I can talk like that if I want.
New York style?
That was my, because I was born in Brooklyn and so and I was raised in Brooklyn and then I moved around a lot and so it can come back like that.
All I gotta do is go back to Brooklyn or talk to Donald for like five minutes.
That's okay.
That's okay.
Well, today we saw the life of the influential French author Thierry Vasilevay, the guy who created the Baphomet that has become a recognized, unfortunately, occult icon.
We have also talked about all his various connections.
I think we have done an excellent analysis because very rarely people talk about all the sides of this man, especially because there has never really been a bio that really, I can say, is satisfactory of everything that Erythas Lever has influenced.
Probably we could take many days to describe I want to also invite everybody who has not yet done this to purchase this book because in this book there is also a whole chapter on Gnosticism and, of course, Albert Pike, who was also inspired by Eliphas Levi, included a lot of Gnostic elements in his teachings and stuff like that.
What are we gonna eat at Christmas, though?
That's really what Rambo is thinking about.
We got a prime rib.
So we're gonna have prime rib.
We wish everybody, guys, have really... and we want to thank, really, from the bottom of my heart, all those people who have purchased my books, including the latest one, Volume 9, Christy's books, all of them, all of them, Volume 6.66, Volume 7,
Everything that comes out here from the Zagami Family Publishing House, Curso Imperficio, and all my other publications.
I really thank those people who purchased these books and also those people who have sponsored us during the course of this year, you know, giving us the WCB.
Thank you so much!
I mean, people are so generous and it really, really helps a lot and it keeps us Keeps us going with this show, so we're still here because of you.
Absolutely, and we hope, hope, hope, yes, hope, to offer you a great new show in the new year, so please have a great time, indulge in whatever you want, of course, in the margins, you know, of health, no?
Drink and be merry!
Okay, and we will see you before the end of the year, no?
Yes, we have one more show.
And that will be the great review, right at the end of this year, of 2023.
So Merry Christmas to all of you.
This is for me a very important Christmas because I have been here now, this is my fifth Christmas.
And your last one is in Italian.
And the last one, hopefully, is in Italian, so that's it!
Soon as I'm American!
Soon as I'm American!
You're already American.
I'm American, I'm American.
You see, you have an American heart.
More heart, American heart than a lot of the people that are in the United States.
Thank you.
They all should be American like you.
Thank you!
Thank you so much!
Take care, guys!
Bye!
Merry Christmas!
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