Eliphas Levi is the name adopted by the French magician and occult writer Alphonse Louis Constant.
Biography
Alphonse Louis Constant was born on February 8, 1810 in the area no. 5, rue des Fosses Saint-Germain-des-Prés (renamed rue de l'Ancienne Comédie) in Paris, the son of Jean Joseph Constant and Jeanne Agnès Beaucourt. Thanks to J.-B.Hubault Malmaison abbot, who organized a school in his parish free basic education for poor children, he began his studies, entering the seminary in 1825 in Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet, led by then Abbot Frère-Colonna, who probably directed towards the study of magic.
Apse of the façade of the Seminary of Saint-Nicolas-du-Chardonnet.
Note the Monogram formed with the IHS letters of the Jesuit Order.
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In 1830, having finished his studies in rhetoric, as the rule went to the seminary of Issy-les-Moulineaux, central district of Paris, to finish their two years of philosophy ... In the same year his father died. After Issy, entered the seminary of Saint-Suplice to study theology. There he was ordained subdeacon and tonsured. Ordained a deacon on December 19, 1835, finally leaving the seminar in June 1836 before receiving the sacrament of order.
Stained glass in the Church of Saint-Suplice
Note the IHS acronym of the Jesuit inside the "sacred heart".
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The unfinished facade of a classical style of the Church of Saint-Suplice is the one of a Jesuit-style church. It is the work of Giovanni Niccolo Servandoni, architect and decorator.
Ceilling in St Sulpice church - Paris 6e - France. St François Xavier's chapel. Painted by Jacques-Emile Lafon in 1859.
Note the JHS acronym of the Jesuit at the right side.
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"Puissance miraculeuse de Saint François Xavier" in St Sulpice church - Paris 6e - France. St François Xavier's chapel.
The Church of the Saint-Suplice was controlled by the Company of
Saint-Suplice, which was created by a jesuit educated men - Maximiliano
Jean-Jacques Olier
Founder of the seminary and Society of St-Sulpice, b. at Paris, 20 Sept., 1608; d. there, 2 April, 1657. At Lyons, where his father had become administrator of justice, he made a thorough classical course under the Jesuits (1617-25); he was encouraged to become a priest by St. Francis de Sales, who predicted his sanctity and great services to the Church.
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St. Francis de Sales
Bishop of Geneva, Doctor of the Universal Church.From 1583 till 1588 he studied rhetoric and humanities at the college of Clermont, Paris, under the care of the Jesuits. In 1588 he studied law at Padua, where the Jesuit Father Possevin was his spiritual director.
-Maximiliano
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