The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum Regnum by liphas Lvi, W. ... - 9781108044295

The Magical Ritual of the Sanctum RegnumInterpreted by the Tarot Trumps\nAuthor(s): liphas Lvi, W. Wynn Westcott\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108044295, 978-1108044295\nSynopsis\nliphas Lvi, born Alphonse Louis Constant, [tel] was instrumental in the revival of Western occultism in the nineteenth century, and published several influential books on magic that are also reissued in this series. This posthumous publication [tel] is a translation by William Wynn Westcott, co-founder of the 'Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn', of an unpublished French manuscript by Lvi, then owned by the spiritualist Edward Maitland. It includes eight of the author's drawings. Each short chapter outlines the meaning of one of the twenty-two tarot trumps and is followed by a brief editor's note describing the card's iconography and summarising interpretations (sometimes deliberately misleading) given in Lvi's ear.