Occult Paris
Subtitle: the lost magic of the Belle Époque
By: Tobias Churton
Publisher: Inner Traditions
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 493
ISBN-13: 9781620555453
Subjects: Occultism; Magic; History
Description: "How fin-de-siècle Paris became the locus for the most intense revival of magical practices and doctrines since the Renaissance"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: "Memories weigh more than stone" : Edmond Bailly's Bookshop 1888; title: The build up; title: Meetings with remarkable men; title: Theosophy and the tradition; title: Stanislas de Guaita; title: The Sâr; title: The Kabbalistic order of the Rose-Cross; title: Papus; title: Rosicrucial differences; title: The salon of the century; title: The Boullan affair; title: Satie and Debussy : moved by the Gnosis; title: The Gnostic church; title: How to become a magus : The Rose-Croix salons 1893-1897; title: The Martinist order; title: The boys move in; title: To the end with Papus; title: The legacy : a forgotten dream.