GRIMOIRE Magical pentagram, with personal symbolism added by Eliphas Levi, from the 1896 English edition of 'Transcendental Magic' MAGIC SYMBOLS - PENTAGRAM Hand-coloured pentagram, designed by the French magician Eliphas Levi, for his work Transcendental Magic, 1884. The pentagram, with its plethora of derived symbols, and terms, was entirely personal to Levi - a good example of his syncretic approach to magical symbols, about which he knew very little, and about which he wrote a great deal