Georges Descormiers (1866-1945), a French occultist better known as Phaneg, founded the "Entente Amicale Evangélique" in 1932. Fifty Wonderful Secrets of Alchemy, with a study preface by Papus, is one...

Cyliani is said to have been a chemist by trade and profession. He was born before the French Revolution and lived in the 19th century. He is said to have dedicated 37 years of his life to the discovery...

Jean-Marie Ragon de Bettignies (1781-1862) was a French Freemason, author and publisher. He is one of the most important Masonic writers of the 19th century. On Occult Masonry and Hermetic Initiation...

François Jollivet-Castelot (1874-1937) was a French occultist and alchemist. A proponent of hyperchemistry, a discipline combining metaphysics and operative chemistry, he taught hylozoism, a monistic...

René Guenon, born November 15, 1886 in Blois, France, and died January 7, 1951 in Cairo, Egypt, was a French metaphysician and a leading authority on esotericism, symbolism, and the comparative study...

Charles Louandre (1812-1882) left an important legacy as editor-in-chief of the Journal de l'Instruction publique. He undertook a survey that synthesized the knowledge of magicians and the traditions...

René Guenon, born November 15, 1886 in Blois, France, and died January 7, 1951 in Cairo, Egypt, was a French metaphysician and a leading authority on esotericism, symbolism, and the comparative study...

Oswald Wirth (1860 - 1943) was Stanislas de Guaita's secretary. Esotericist, occultist, tarologist, astrologer and writer, he played an important role in French Freemasonry. His best-known book on the...

In the early 17th century, a series of highly successful alchemical treatises were published under the name of Basil Valentinus (Latin: Basilius Valentinus), a fifteenth-century Benedictine monk. The...

René Guenon (1886-1951) was a leading French metaphysician in the fields of esotericism, symbolism, and the comparative study of religions. In this book, Guenon explains the concept of the Primordial...

Oswald Wirth (1860 - 1943) was Stanislas de Guaita's secretary. Esotericist, occultist, tarologist, astrologer and writer, he played an important role in French Freemasonry. His best-known book on the...

Oswald Wirth (1860 - 1943) was Stanislas de Guaita's secretary. Esotericist, occultist, tarologist, astrologer and writer, he played an important role in French Freemasonry. His best-known book on the...

René Guenon (1886-1951) was a leading French metaphysician in the fields of esotericism, symbolism, and the comparative study of religions. Le Symbolisme de la Croix takes the Vêdânta's doctrinal notions...

Guillaume Louis Figuier (1819-1894) was the most prolific popularizer of science in the 19th century, famous for the number and quality of the journal articles and books he published between 1848 and...

René Guenon (1886-1951) was a leading French metaphysician in the fields of esotericism, symbolism, and the comparative study of religions. In this book, he describes the conditions that would make it...

In this major work of contemporary esotericism, Fulcanelli offers an in-depth study of the mysterious symbolism, totally independent of Christian themes, that embellishes the great French cathedrals....

Nicolas Flamel (circa 1330 or 1340 - 1418) was a 14th-century Parisian bourgeois, public writer, copyist and sworn bookseller. His fortune, amplified by rumor, made him a mythical alchemist who succeeded...

In this mythical book, Edouard Schuré (1841-1929) sketches the secret history of religions and takes us on a journey through the great esoteric tradition: from Brahmanic initiation to the mysteries of...

René Guenon (1886-1951) was a leading French metaphysician in the fields of esotericism, symbolism and the comparative study of religions. This collection brings together a number of studies on the subject...

French poet, novelist, playwright, essayist and journalist Julien Blois (1868-1943) tells us about the strange little sects that swarmed Paris at the end of the 19th century.

Oswald Wirth (1860 - 1943) was the driving force behind the revival of symbolic and traditional studies in French Freemasonry. Esotericist, occultist, tarologist, astrologer and writer, he links alchemy...

Eliphas Levi is the pseudonym of Alphonse-Louis Constant (1810-1875), a French clergyman and leading figure in the occult. Dogma and Ritual of High Magic deals with all the traditional sciences, e.g....

A strange text by Eliphas Lévi (1810-1875), written in 1861 for his student, Baron J. de Spedalieri. In this book, the reader can discover the symbolism of the prophecy of Ezekiel and the Apocalypse of...

Eliphas Levi is the pseudonym of Alphonse-Louis Constant (1810-1875), a French clergyman and leading figure in the occult. Dogma and Ritual of High Magic deals with all the traditional sciences, e.g....

Gérard de Nerval, one of France's greatest writers, was passionate about initiation and Freemasonry. At the heart of his masterwork, Un voyage en Orient, he presents us with the legend of Master Hiram,...

Basil Valentine, believed to be a pseudonym, was an alchemist in the 15th or 16th century. However, there is no concrete evidence of his existence before 1600. It was later suggested that Johann Thölde,...

Esotericist, occultist, tarot reader, astrologer and writer, Oswald Wirth (1860 - 1943) was the driving force behind the revival of symbolic and traditional studies in French Freemasonry. Here, he returns...

Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse (1865-1916), known as Papus, was a French physician and occultist, co-founder of the Martinist Order with Augustin Chaboseau. Far from being elementary, this 7th edition...

René Guenon (1886-1951) was a leading French metaphysician in the fields of esotericism, symbolism and the comparative study of religions.This work deals mainly with the method and different paths of...

René Guenon (1886-1951) was a leading French metaphysician in the fields of esotericism, symbolism and the comparative study of religions. The present collection brings together all the articles on symbolism...