Occult Paris: The Lost Magic of the Belle Époque

Historian Tobias Churton explores the magical, artistic, and intellectual world of the Belle #65533;poque Paris. He brings into full perspective the personalities, and forces that made Paris a global magnet and which allowed later cultural movements, such as the "psychedelic 60s," to rise...

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Main Author: Churton, Tobias (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Rochester Inner Traditions International, Limited 2016
In:Year: 2016
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Summary:Historian Tobias Churton explores the magical, artistic, and intellectual world of the Belle #65533;poque Paris. He brings into full perspective the personalities, and forces that made Paris a global magnet and which allowed later cultural movements, such as the "psychedelic 60s," to rise from the ashes of post-war Europe.
Cover Image -- Title Page -- Epigraph -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. "Memories Weigh More than Stone": Edmond Bailly's Bookshop 1888 -- VICTOR-ÉMILE MICHELET AT BAILLY'S BOOKSHOP -- Chapter 2. The Build Up -- POLITICS AND POWER -- DECADENCE -- RECOVERING LOST POWERS -- Chapter 3. Meetings with Remarkable Men -- ST. MARTIN -- FABRE D'OLIVET -- ÉLIPHAS LÉVI -- Chapter 4. Theosophy and the Tradition -- LADY CAITHNESS -- SAINT-YVES D'ALVEYDRE -- AGARTTHA -- Chapter 5. Stanislas de Guaita -- ABBÉ LACURIA -- Chapter 6. The Sâr -- THE PÉLADANS -- Chapter 7. The Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross -- VICOMTE LOUIS CHARLES ÉDOUARD DE LAPASSE AND THE ROSE-CROIX OF TOULOUSE -- PÉLADAN AND THE TEMPLARS -- DE GUAITA AND BOULLAN -- THE ORDER -- PAUL ADAM -- BARLET -- Chapter 8. Papus -- PAUL SÉDIR AND MARC HAVEN -- Chapter 9. Rosicrucial Differences -- THE ORDER OF THE CATHOLIC ROSE-CROIX, THE TEMPLE AND THE GRAAL -- Chapter 10. The Salon of the Century -- THE MANIFESTATION -- Chapter 11. The Boullan Affair -- Chapter 12. Satie and Debussy: Moved by the Gnosis -- GNOSSIENNES-ERIK'S GNOSTIC TWIST -- THE WAY OUT -- THE ESOTERIC DEBUSSY -- THE MAGIC IN MUSIC -- Chapter 13. The Gnostic Church -- JULES DOINEL -- LÉONCE-EUGÈNE JOSEPH FABRE DES ESSARTS (1848-1917) -- DEVELOPMENTS WITHIN THE GNOSTIC CHURCH-THE PALLADIUM CONTROVERSY -- Chapter 14. How to Become a Magus: The Rose-Croix Salons 1893-1897 -- THE SALON OF 1893 -- THE ROSE-CROIX SALONS OF 1894 AND 1895 -- Chapter 15. The Martinist Order -- Chapter 16. The Boys Move In -- JOANNY BRICAUD (1881-1934) -- DÉODAT ROCHÉ -- THE ANCIENT & PRIMITIVE RITES OF MEMPHIS AND MISRAIM -- THEODOR REUSS, ANCIENT & PRIMITIVE, AND THE UNIVERSAL GNOSTIC CHURCH -- Chapter 17. To the End with Papus -- Chapter 18. The Legacy: A Forgotten Dream -- EXTRAMURAL SYNARCHY -- Footnotes -- Endnotes.
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ISBN:1620555468