Who Were Eliphas Levi and Count Cagliostro? Magicians, Scoundrels or Healers?

Psychic Teachers

Samantha Fey

Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Spirituality

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 7 February 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, we take a deep look at the famous magician Eliphas Levi and the notorious Count Cagliostro often known as The Last Alchemist to continue our exploration of historical magicians. We discuss Levi's encounter with a ghost and other mysterious individuals while looking at Cagliostro's involvement in The Necklace Affair and other dubious events. We end the show with an alleged spell to make you invisible.

Books mentioned in this show include: Transcendental Magic: Its Doctrine and Ritual and The Doctrine of High Magic by Eliphas Levi. The Last Alchemist by Iain McCalman.

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0:00.0	music
0:13.0	Hello and welcome to Psychic Teachers. I'm your host Samantha Faye.
0:17.0	And I'm Deb Bowen.
0:19.0	And today we're going to continue our discussion of some famous magicians throughout history.
0:24.0	So last week you heard about two men who were deeply involved in the Golden Dawn.
0:28.0	We're going to go back a little bit further and talk about Ella Fiss Levi,
0:32.0	who's a pretty famous magician of the 19th century.
0:36.0	In fact, he's considered one of the most famous magicians of the entire 19th century.
0:41.0	He was born in Paris in 1810 to a poor family of shoemakers.
0:46.0	Doesn't that sound like the start to like a fairytale?
0:49.0	It does.
0:52.0	His real name was Alphonse Lewis Constant.
0:55.0	Now, if you noticed a lot of these magicians changed their names as Deb mentioned last week with matters.
1:01.0	This is for a lot of reasons, but mainly it's on this belief that if someone knows your name,
1:07.0	they have a little bit of your power.
1:09.0	So often magicians will change their true name so that you can't get to them and their true energy.
1:16.0	Now growing up, his dad saw how intelligent he was.
1:19.0	So he sent a life as to study with the priest.
1:22.0	However, he was kicked out for having unorthodox beliefs.
1:26.0	He loved the seminar in 1836 where he worked and made his living as a tutor in Paris.
1:32.0	It was here that he met the mystic Simon Gano who greatly influenced him.
1:36.0	Three years later, he once again joined a monastery, but one more time had issues with the disciplinary rules.
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