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Occult Paris - The Lost Magic of the Belle Epoque (Hardcover)
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Occult Paris - The Lost Magic of the Belle Epoque (Hardcover)
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List price R788
Loot Price R537
Discovery Miles 5 370
You Save R251 (32%)
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During Paris's Belle Epoque (1871-1914), many cultural movements
and artistic styles flourished--Symbolism, Impressionism, Art
Nouveau, the Decadents--all of which profoundly shaped modern
culture. Inseparable from this cultural advancement was the
explosion of occult activity taking place in the City of Light at
the same time. Exploring the magical, artistic, and intellectual
world of the Belle Epoque, Tobias Churton shows how a wide variety
of Theosophists, Rosicrucians, Martinists, Freemasons, Gnostics,
and neo-Cathars called fin-de-siecle Paris home. He examines the
precise interplay of occultists Josephin Peladan, Papus, Stanislas
de Guaita, and founder of the modern Gnostic Church Jules Doinel,
along with lesser known figures such as Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, Paul
Sedir, Charles Barlet, Edmond Bailly, Albert Jounet, Abbe Lacuria,
and Lady Caithness. He reveals how the work of many masters of
modern culture such as composers Claude Debussy and Erik Satie,
writers Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Baudelaire, and painters Georges
Seurat and Alphonse Osbert bear signs of immersion in the esoteric
circles that were thriving in Paris at the time. The author
demonstrates how the creative hermetic ferment that animated the
City of Light in the decades leading up to World War I remains an
enduring presence and powerful influence today. Where, he asks,
would Aleister Crowley and all the magicians of today be without
the Parisian source of so much creativity in this field?
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