Éliphas Lévi (1810-75) was instrumental in the revival of Western occultism in the nineteenth century. This posthumous publication (1896), translated from an unpublished manuscript, outlines the meanings of the twenty-two tarot trumps and includes editorial notes on their iconography. It concludes with Kabbalistic prayers and occult and religious maxims.
A posthumous publication (1896) by an influential exponent of nineteenth-century occultism, interpreting the tarot trumps but finally asserting Christian revelation.