Antoine Fabre d'Olivet (December 8, 1767-March 25, 1825) was a
French author, poet, and composer whose biblical and philosophical
hermeneutics in?uenced many occultists, such as Eliphas Levi and
Gerard Encausse (Papus), and Rene Guenon. D'Olivet spent his life
pursuing the esoteric wisdom concealed in the Hebrew scriptures,
Greek philosophy, and the symbolism of many ancient cultures as far
back as ancient India, Persia, and Egypt. His writings are
considered classics of the Hermetic tradition. His best known works
today are his research on the Hebrew language (The Hebraic Tongue
Restored), his translation and interpretation of the writings of
Pythagoras (The Golden Verses of Pythagoras), and his writings on
the sacred art of music. In addition to the above works, Hermetica
has published in consistent facsimile format for its Collected
Works of Fabre d'Olivet series The Healing of Rodolphe Grivel, as
well as Hermeneutic Interpretation of the Origin of the Social
State of Man and the Destiny of the Adamic Race. D'Olivet's mastery
of many ancient languages and their literatures enabled him to
write (in the time of Napoleon) this latter work, which remains a
landmark investigation of the deeper esoteric undercurrents at work
in the history of culture. The Mosaic cosmogony of Fabre d'Olivet
is derived in its entirely from the Sepher of Moses, and one should
have read his translation of the Bereshith to comprehend how the
esoteric ideas of the Egyptians upon the creation differ from the
simple narratives of the exoteric translators of Moses, and are,
instead, writings containing the chronicle of the human soul, its
origin, phases of involution and evolution, and the means whereby
it may ultimately regain its origin. From Translator's Foreword
Cain and Abel are the two primordial forces of elementary nature.
These are the first two cosmogonic beings produced by Eve, when
after a certain movement toward elementary nature, she has lost her
name of Aisha, which designated the intellectual nature of Adam, to
take that of Eve, which expresses no more than the material life of
this universal being. From author's letter to Lord Byron
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