Histoire de la magie avec une exposition claire et précise de ses procédés, de ses rites et de ses mystères

heir to the mages, imposes on our faith three persons in God and three mysteries in the universal religion.

We have followed, in the division of our two works already published, and we will follow in the division of the third, the plan traced by the Kabbalah Jewish mystical tradition; that is to say, by the purest tradition of occultism.

Our Dogma and our Ritual are each divided into twenty-two chapters marked by the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. We have placed at the head of each chapter the letter that relates to it, along with the Latin words which, according to the best authors, indicate its hieroglyphic meaning. Thus, at the head of the first chapter, for example, one reads:

This signifies that the letter aleph the first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, whose equivalent in Latin and French is A, and whose numerical value is 1, signifies the candidate, the man called to initiation, the skilled individual the Magician of the tarot. It also signifies the dogmatic summary original: "syllepse dogmatique" or disciplina discipline; being in its general and first conception, En Sof the infinite; and finally the first and

obscure idea of the divinity expressed by Keter the crown in kabbalistic theology.

The chapter is the development of the title, and the title contains the entire chapter hieroglyphically. The entire book is composed according to this combination.

The History of Magic, which follows and which, after the general theory of the science given by the Dogma and the Ritual, recounts and explains the realizations of this science through the ages, is combined according to the septenary seven-fold number, as we explain in our Introduction. The septenary number is that of the creative week and of divine realization.

The Key to the Great Mysteries will be established on the number four, which is that of the enigmatic forms of the sphinx and of the elementary manifestations. It is also the number of the square and of force, and in this book we will establish certainty on unshakable foundations. We will entirely explain the enigma of the sphinx and we will give to our readers this key to the things hidden since the beginning of the world, which the scholar Postel Guillaume Postel, a 16th-century mystic had only dared to depict in one of his most obscure books in a completely enigmatic manner and without giving a satisfactory explanation.

The History of Magic explains the assertions contained in the Dogma and the Ritual; the Key to the Great Mysteries