Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie

Lévi's masterwork, in two parts — the doctrine and the ritual — and the origin point of nearly everything the modern West calls occultism. Introduced the Baphomet image and the doctrine of the astral light.

The weld happens here: twenty-two trumps joined to twenty-two letters, for the first time in history. It also introduced the method — grand analogical correspondence across every tradition at once, held together by number — which the Order simply industrialised.