A 21st century intellectual recently published the following, somewhat dismissive, abstract of Levi's Kabalistic scholarship (which might be generalized to Levi's scholarship in respect to all forms of esoterica): "Franck and Lévi both thought of the Kabbalah as a universal tradition with non-Jewish ‘Zoroastrian’ origins and I argued that Lévi’s perspective was grounded essentially in the prisca theologia tradition of the Renaissance, derived from Patristic foundations that were well known to him from his Roman Catholic upbringing and his education for the priesthood. Lévi’s understanding of Kabbalah was a high Romantic literary invention of considerable brilliance and originality, although obviously lacking in any historical foundation."