Waite’s Mysteries of Magic Lévi reception | Atlas of Religious and Esoteric Lineages

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Waite’s Mysteries of Magic Lévi reception is cataloged as a Lineage / school within Western Esotericism & Initiatory. Its candidate country context is “United Kingdom” and its period or origin is “Published 1886 onward.” It is associated with the parent tradition “British reception of French occultism.”

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Record fields

Alternate / historical names: The Mysteries of Magic; The Mysteries of Magic: A Digest of the Writings of Éliphas Lévi; Lévi digest by A. E. Waite
Parent tradition: British reception of French occultism
Public geographic context: United Kingdom
Period / origin: Published 1886 onward
Living / historical status: Historical translation-and-digest reception
Access / protocol: Open / public
Evidence status: Directly cited

Geography

Candidate

United Kingdom

Public geographic context is limited to country level or broader. A documented site may still be named as the record’s public identity, but no subnational location field or coordinates are published.

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Citation corrected · 16 October 2026. A link to The History of Magic, a different work, has been removed from this record’s citations. The retained scan below is The Mysteries of Magic (1897 edition). This correction does not complete the review of the record’s wider historical claims.

The Mysteries of Magic — 1897 scanarchive.org

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Waite’s Mysteries of Magic Lévi reception. Atlas of Religious and Esoteric Lineages, record 1059. https://esotericlineages.com/entry/1059

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