Éliphas Lévi

Alphonse Louis Constant, better known as Éliphas Lévi (1810 - 1875), was a French occultist and ceremonial magician who wrote several influential books on the subject.
Lévi is mentioned in H. P. Lovecraft's novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, in which he is described as a "cryptic soul who crept through a crack in the forbidden door and glimpsed the frightful vistas of the void beyond". The words of the magic formulae that Ward uses to bring his ancestor Joseph Curwen back from the dead are compared to Lévi's "mystic writings".
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