Complex sentence: His best known work was "The Magus" which purported to be a handbook on the occult and magic and may have influenced novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton and author Eliphas Levi.
Split into simpler sentences: His best known work was "The Magus" which purported to be a handbook on the occult and magic. It may have influenced novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton and author Eliphas Levi.