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Contents List of Illustrations 6 Preface 7 Introduction 11 PART ONE The Age of Unreason 1. The Rebirth of Magic 17 2. The Occult and the Revolution 34 3. Revolutionary Cults 44 4. The Beginnings of Popular Occultism 49 5. Magnetisers and Mediums 55 6. The Holy King 61 PART TWO Eliphas Lévi 7. The Early Years 73 8. The Radical 83 9. Enter Eliphas Lévi 96 10. The Magician 105 11. The Pundit 124 12. The Last Years 136 13. Eliphas Lévi: An Assessment 141 PART THREE Towards the Kingdom of the Paraclete 14. The Heirs of Eliphas Lévi 157 15. The War of the Roses 171 16. The Magical Quest of J.-K. Huysmans 177 17. Writers and the Occult 195 18. Satanists and Anti-Satanists 206 19. The Indian Summer of Occultism 219 Appendix A 225 Appendix B 226 Select Bibliography 228 Index 233 33684 Levi FM.indd 5 1/10/11 9:57 AM ...