A. E. Waite
Later on, the construction of a specifically French esoteric tradition, in which Constant was to form a crucial link, perpetuated this idea of a clear rupture between the socialist Constant and the occultist Lévi. Julian Strube in 2016 wrote that a different narrative was developed independently by Arthur Edward Waite, who was a near contemporary of Levi. Strube opined that A. E. Waite knew insufficient details of Constant's life.