Later, under the Hebraicized moniker "Eliphas Levi", Constant went on to focus more on Kabbalah, the occult, and Satanism. He died this day in 1875.
5/31/2012
May 31: Eliphas Levi
Eliphas Levi, writing under his birth name of Alphonse-Louis Constant,
published "The Bible of Liberty" in France in 1848. In it he appraised
the Book of Revelation through a triumphal lens of utopian socialism,
seeing its predictions of a Second Coming and New Jerusalem as having a
political dimension, as well as spiritual. The book was considered
radical, and resulted in a brief prison sentence.
Later, under the Hebraicized moniker "Eliphas Levi", Constant went on to focus more on Kabbalah, the occult, and Satanism. He died this day in 1875.
Later, under the Hebraicized moniker "Eliphas Levi", Constant went on to focus more on Kabbalah, the occult, and Satanism. He died this day in 1875.
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