So the vast amount of equipment he said was needed to do the experiments (including several concave mirrors and gilded objects) must have come from someone else.
In addition, we also know through his correspondence that Lévi’s address when he was in London was at 57 Gower Street. Gower street is a major thoroughfare, and it is obvious from the style of the building that in it were rather modest apartment like lodgings. But Lévi clearly says that a ‘cabinet in a tourelle' (meaning a place set adside in a turret) was used for the evocations. 57 Gower street does not include a turret and so this was likely part of a much wealthier building provided by someone else, perhaps a manor of some sort.
No matter, it is logical to think that the person who was encouraging him to do the practices in the first place would have provided a place and equipment for him to do so knowing he was unable to do so for himself as a poor visitor to London.
Because of these facts most biographers have concluded that the experiments were undertaken in a the aforementioned woman’s home and that she was involved somehow in them.
Who was this highly advanced and influential woman who is said to be a friend (not a relative) of Bulwer-Lytton? Sadly no one has been able to find her definitively.
Whether we find her true identity or not what is clear, despite Lévi’s later advice to avoid such evocations, that the work he did with or because of her was highly influential on his own spiritual development, as indicated in his own personal notes on the evocations:
""The preparations lasted 21 days and the first evocations were of the spirits of Joannès (John) and Jéhoshua (Jesus or Yeshua). The second was a vision of Apollonius which told him (Lévi) where to find his Nuctemeron by indicating to him the street and the place (in London).""
""In the third vision (during the first evocation), John explained his seals to him (to Lévi): Yeshua severely reprimanded him and revealed to him the future. He handed him the book of Rabbi Inaz, and taught him celestial magic, and gave him the key to miracles, and commanded him to honour the crown, the polar vestments, and the ceremonies of the Gallican Evangelical Church.""
In addition the visions of a talisman would teach him the truth of the Fililoquoe something he had been mulling over theologically for sometime:
""John brought him a pantacle of two sides, on one side a dove carrying an olive branch with the words: Pax hominibus Bonae Volontatis and a crown of twelve flowers and twelve pearls. On the reverse, the character M crowned with seven flames with the words: Unus spiritus sanctus qui ex Patre fililoque procedit. The word filioque can be found above in the middle of the legend (design). Above the monogram is written: Unus Pastor, and below: Unus Fides.""
He would be guided by these visions throughout his entire life as can be seen by the fact that he later would write a kabbalistic commentary on the 'Book of Revelations' and its seven seals and also translate and provide commentary on the 'Nuctemeron' all things which his visions had led him to.
Therefore through the later popularity of Lévis' writings this woman also had an influence on the practice of High Magic as we know it today.
Any guesses as to her identity?
In addition, we also know through his correspondence that Lévi’s address when he was in London was at 57 Gower Street. Gower street is a major thoroughfare, and it is obvious from the style of the building that in it were rather modest apartment like lodgings. But Lévi clearly says that a ‘cabinet in a tourelle' (meaning a place set adside in a turret) was used for the evocations. 57 Gower street does not include a turret and so this was likely part of a much wealthier building provided by someone else, perhaps a manor of some sort.
No matter, it is logical to think that the person who was encouraging him to do the practices in the first place would have provided a place and equipment for him to do so knowing he was unable to do so for himself as a poor visitor to London.
Because of these facts most biographers have concluded that the experiments were undertaken in a the aforementioned woman’s home and that she was involved somehow in them.
Who was this highly advanced and influential woman who is said to be a friend (not a relative) of Bulwer-Lytton? Sadly no one has been able to find her definitively.
Whether we find her true identity or not what is clear, despite Lévi’s later advice to avoid such evocations, that the work he did with or because of her was highly influential on his own spiritual development, as indicated in his own personal notes on the evocations:
""The preparations lasted 21 days and the first evocations were of the spirits of Joannès (John) and Jéhoshua (Jesus or Yeshua). The second was a vision of Apollonius which told him (Lévi) where to find his Nuctemeron by indicating to him the street and the place (in London).""
""In the third vision (during the first evocation), John explained his seals to him (to Lévi): Yeshua severely reprimanded him and revealed to him the future. He handed him the book of Rabbi Inaz, and taught him celestial magic, and gave him the key to miracles, and commanded him to honour the crown, the polar vestments, and the ceremonies of the Gallican Evangelical Church.""
In addition the visions of a talisman would teach him the truth of the Fililoquoe something he had been mulling over theologically for sometime:
""John brought him a pantacle of two sides, on one side a dove carrying an olive branch with the words: Pax hominibus Bonae Volontatis and a crown of twelve flowers and twelve pearls. On the reverse, the character M crowned with seven flames with the words: Unus spiritus sanctus qui ex Patre fililoque procedit. The word filioque can be found above in the middle of the legend (design). Above the monogram is written: Unus Pastor, and below: Unus Fides.""
He would be guided by these visions throughout his entire life as can be seen by the fact that he later would write a kabbalistic commentary on the 'Book of Revelations' and its seven seals and also translate and provide commentary on the 'Nuctemeron' all things which his visions had led him to.
Therefore through the later popularity of Lévis' writings this woman also had an influence on the practice of High Magic as we know it today.
Any guesses as to her identity?
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