The Veil of the Temple Torn (The Unpublished Writings of Eliphas Levi - Part 1)

This text (Part 1) is a reprint of what appeared in an esoteric English language magazine entitled The Theosophist between February 1884 and November 1884 as “The Veil of the Temple Rent”. And the final section “Stray Thoughts” is from December 1884. These are the sections: 1. On Universal Mythology 2. The Great Arcanum and the Great Work 3. What is Necessary to Become Initiated 4. The Object of Initiation 5. The Pope and the Sphinx 6. What we should Will; What we should Dare; and about what we should keep Silent 7. Power and Forces 8. How to govern Influences through Power 9. The Sacred Books of Science 10. Magnetic Irregularities and Crimes against Nature + Stray Thoughts