The Paradoxes of the Highest Science

The Paradoxes of the Highest Science is a book by Éliphas Lévi, first published in 1856. The English rendering — an anonymous translation — first appeared in 1883 under the imprint of the Theosophical Society and was re-issued in 1922 with extensive footnotes by an “Eminent Occultist” (E.O.).

Lévi’s short, aphoristic treatise offers a tightly argued set of seven paradoxes that probe the boundaries ...