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Gérard Encausse (Papus)

Gérard Analect Vincent Encausse (born July 13, 1865 in A Coruña , Spain ; † October 25, 1916 in Paris ), known under the pseudonym Papus , was an important French occultist , esotericist , theosophist , Rosicrucian and Martinist .

Life

Papus was the child of a Spanish mother and a French father who was a chemist. The family moved to Paris when the child was four years old. From an early age, Gérard spent a lot of time in the local national library , where he studied, among other things, the Kabbalah , the Tarot , magic , alchemy and the writings of Éliphas Lévis .

In 1887 he was a co-founder of the French Theosophical Society , but separated from theosophy again in 1890 . He founded the esoteric circle Groupe indépendant d'étude ésoterique , published an occult journal called Traité méthodique de science occulte and became a member of the Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose-Croix . The following year he founded the Librarie du Merveilleux with Lucien Chamuel and published the monthly magazine L'Initiation . He referred to the occultist Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre (1842-1909) as his intellectual teacher, and Maître Philippe , whom he introduced to the Russian imperial family, as his spiritual teacher.

Around the same time, Encausse took his pseudonym Papus . It comes from the Nykthemeron of Apollonius of Tyana . In it Papus describes the spirit of the first hour. Furthermore referred Papus also the spirit of Medical Sciences . On July 7, 1894 Gérard Encausse University of Paris became a Doctor of Medicine doctorate . After the death of the Marquis Stanislas de Guaita in 1897, Papus was appointed President of the de la Chambre de Direction de l'Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose-Croix and Grand Master of the Martinist Order associated with it.

As early as 1891 Papus published his work Les Arts Divinatoires - graphologie , chiromancie , morphologie , physiognomonie, astrosophie , astrologie ; the work contains u. a. an introduction to the basics of astrology from a theo-philosophical point of view . In 1910 the Hermetic School founded by Papus publishes the work Premier Elements D´Astrosophie (main elements of astrosophy). This includes courses that were originally taught at the School of Hermetic Sciences .

In 1901, 1905 and 1906 he was in Saint Petersburg at the invitation of Tsar Nicholas II . Primarily he came as a doctor, but also to teach him esotericism. In doing so, he founded a Martinist lodge to which the tsar himself belonged. At the same time, Papus was worried about the mostly blind trust of the Tsar and his wife in occultism . He assisted the tsarist couple in important government decisions and warned them of Rasputin's influence .

In 1907 Papus founded the Gnostic Catholic Church as a result of the splitting off of the Neo-Albigensian Church founded in 1890 by Papus helper Jules Doinel .

During the First World War he enlisted as a doctor in the French army and during this time worked in a military hospital. Here he contracted tuberculosis and died on October 25, 1916 in Paris.

Works (selection)

  • The Kabbalah of Papus. In the translation by Prof. Julius Nestler with a foreword by Dr. Gerold Necker. Revised and scientifically supervised by HD Dr. theol. habil. Michael Tilly; newly set and revised. Marixverlag, Wiesbaden 2004, ISBN 3-937715-61-4
  • Gypsy tarot, the absolute key to occult science. Ansata-Verlag, Bern-Munich-Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-502-20245-1
  • The Basics of Occult Science & The Science of Mages. AAGW, Sinzheim 1997
  • The tarot of prophecy, the key to lost systems of layout and methods of interpretation. Edition Tramontane, Bad Münstereifel 1990, ISBN 3-925828-17-6
  • Das Buch des Glücks, a practical handbook for determining and supporting individual life chances. Edition Tramontane, Bad Münstereifel 1989, ISBN 3-925828-13-3
  • The science of magicians and their theoretical and practical application. Schmidt, Handeloh 1978

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Papus, Gerard Encausse: https://lesothentique.wordpress.com/2017/01/23/chronique-esothentique-papus-premiers-elements-dastrosophie-alliance-magique/ . Ed .: Edition Dangles. Paris 1910.
  2. ↑ Susanne Pallagi: astrosophy. https://www.academia.edu/about , 2019, accessed June 28, 2020 .
  3. ^ Franz Wegener: Alfred Schuler, the last German Cathar. Gnosis, National Socialism and the mystical blood light. Gladbeck 2003. ISBN 3-931300-11-0 . P. 32.
personal data
SURNAME Papus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Encausse, Gérard Analect Vincent (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French occultist and esotericist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1865
PLACE OF BIRTH A Coruña , Spain
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 1916
Place of death Paris