Talk:Éliphas Lévi

Levi influence

Many supposedly "ancient" occult or neo-pagan traditions in fact originated with Eliphas Levi. AnonMoos 17:53, 15 April 2006 (UTC)

The French Wikipedia article has a lot of material... AnonMoos (talk) 19:58, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

A quote (haven't personally verified it yet): AnonMoos (talk) 22:42, 19 January 2009 (UTC)

Occultism was "in a moribund condition when Lévi started to revivify it by his books about it. The astonishing fact is that his work formed the narrow channel through which the whole Western tradition of magic flowed to the modern era... Lévi completed the task, begun in the Renaissance, of synthesizing the various ingredients of the Western tradition of magic; it was he who finally made it a single tradition" ..."the Qabala, alchemy, Hermetism, astrology, magnetism and even a little black magic from the grimoires" -- from A Wicked Pack of Cards by Ronald Decker, Thierry Depaulis, and Michael Dummett.[1] ISBN 0312162944

Crowley Fetus

The bit about Crowley being the reincarnation of Levi is odd. It assumes the possibility of reincarnation, and then it goes on to assume that if reincarnation is possible, the transfer must take place instantaneously after death. If you're going to accept reincarnation as a possibility, why would it matter how long it took for Soul A to migrate into Body B? --76.83.249.234 03:46, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

I think it's of interest to know chronology when there is a claim of reincarnation. If I claim to be the reincarnation of Princess Diana of Wales, for instance, people are less likely to believe me than if I claim to be reincarnated from someone who died before I was conceived. That death needs to occur before reincarnation is of course an assumption, but it's one many people make. Here the sequence is a bit more subtle: death before birth, but not death before conception. It's still interesting to note. Fuzzypeg☻ 03:56, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

This also strikes me as odd, and inappropriate commentary. There's an implicit assumption that the mechanism of reincarnation is understood enough to cast doubt on Crowley's claim. The historical fact worthy of encyclopedic mention is Crowley's claim. An aside about the plausibility and chronology of reincarnation is better relegated to the article on reincarnation, where this particular claim could serve as an illustration. I'm removing it from this article. Danielsteinbock (talk) 08:56, 5 February 2009 (UTC)

Adding bibliography

Could we possibly have a bibliography of Levi's works? Senoraraton 04:54, 5 August 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject class rating

This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 14:24, 10 November 2007 (UTC)

'Book of Splendors' (partial translation of Zohar)

Some years back I had a thin paperback book attributed to Levi, purporting to be his translation / commentaries on Zohar. I no longer have it and am thus unable to provide publisher, date, etc. Is this something that should be included in his bibliography, or a red herring? Shimjung1 (talk) 01:22, 8 June 2009 (UTC)

Pronunciation of Lévi

I think this article should specify the correct pronunciation of Lévi. I assume it's pronounced "le vee?" and not like the popular brand of denim trousers?Smiloid (talk) 02:36, 22 March 2010 (UTC)

Neither. It's pronounced the way French people pronounce it. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.171.176.132 (talk) 17:45, 3 May 2010 (UTC)

Spelling of name with or without acute accent79.50.227.37 (talk) 10:37, 3 March 2011 (UTC)

Title of entry refers to "Levi" while main body refers frequently to "Lévi", the name under which he published. Which should it be?