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Eliphas Levi (born Alphonse Louis Constant), was largely responsible for the revival of magic, and contemporary witchcraft. During his life, he followed an esoteric Jewish path – hence the Hebrew pseudonym – and wrote many books on the occult, magic, and alchemy. However, he’s best know for his work regarding Baphomet, the alleged deity of the mysterious Knights Templar.

In 1891 Joris-Karl Huysmans published his novel “Là-bas” in which he paints a fantasy of Satanism and the occult, such as it was reportedly still practiced at that time in Paris. One of the most sinister figures however, the so-called “canon Docre”, turned out to be Louis Van Haecke, chaplain of the Holy Blood Chapel of Bruges…