Traité méthodique de science occulte

This is what has been achieved, almost without any money, simply through the grouping of forces that until then had been scattered. — Much still remains to be done; but every officer of the group stands ready for anything to secure the success of occult Science and the advent of its doctrines.

The foregoing answers, better than any theory could, the question posed at the start of this chapter: What are the societies where one may gather the data of the Initiation?

The following table sums up everything we have said on the history of occult Science from 1730 down to 1890.

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Mesmer (1766)

De Puységur (1787)

SPIRITISME

Cahagnet (1840)

I

53 , Nus (1851)

I

Hennequin (1853)

Nus

Chardel (1848-58)

I

Ricard (1854)

Allan Kardec (1857)

I

Paul Auguez. Esquiros

HYPNOTISME

Lafontaine 1855-60

Flammarion (1863)

I

Rraid (1860)

Du Potet (1869)

Delaage 1875

Pezzani 1875

I

Zouave Jacob

I

P. G. Leymarie

I

Camille Chaigneau

SAVANTS

EXPÉRIMENTATEURS

Reichenbach (1853)

I

** Crookes (1884)

X Robert

Gabriel Delanne

I

Marius Georges

LLucie Grange

I

Bouvery

Reybaud

I

Durville

I

Auffmger

Donato

Cagliostro (F
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Mesnet

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CUarcot (1877)
Liébault

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Bernheim

Luys (1885)

Dt Gibier (1887)

De Rochas (1889)

Moutin

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Hœné Wronski (1820

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Ehas Levi 1852 1850 Louis Lucas (1853)

Court de Géljèlin (1773-83) Bailly (1775-1787)

Fabre d’Olivet (1825) . Dutens (1820)

Ch. Henry

! las de Guaita (1886)

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Montière (1887)

I Émile Michelet

ÎOHÉMIEN

J. A. Vaillant (1863

lexandre Saint- Yves d’Alveydre (1877)

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Papus 1887

SinnettMme Blavatsky

.-•'F. Ch. Ba'rl'et (1885) Hartmann (1885)

F. K. Gaboriau
(1886-88)

I

Mme de Pomar 1886

Julien Lejay 1889 Augustin Chaboseau (1890) Mme d’Adhémar

I

J. Lermina 1890
L’initiation

oupe indépendant d'études ésotériques tiiHf ’apus. — Lejay. — Montière. — Chaboseau. — E. Michelet. — Moutin. — Doinel. — F Bertrand, etc., etc.

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Here is the current state of the Groupe Indépendant d'Études ésotériques (February 1891):

Headquarters. — Lecture hall. — Conference hall. — Library and bookshop.

29, rue de Trévise, Paris.

Charters issued (branches and study groups): forty-five.

Paris. — Lille. — Tours. — Lyon. — Bordeaux. — Marseille. — Nancy. — Sens. — Clermont-Ferrand. — Reims. — Algiers.

London. — Brussels. — Liège. — Berlin. — Munich. — Amsterdam. — Warsaw. — Saint Petersburg.

— Vienna. — Geneva. — Rome. — Barcelona. — New York. — Quebec. — La Plata. — Port Said. — Panama.

— Cuba.

Journals. — The weekly journal Le Voile d'Isis, appearing on Wednesdays, is the official organ of headquarters, along with the review l'Initiation.

To be a member of the group, there is no membership fee to pay; it is enough to subscribe to l'Initiation or to the Voile d'Isis and to submit an application.

Officers of the group for 1890-91

Papus.

Founding President:
Directors of the Commissions:

Teaching: Stanislas de Guaita. — Propaganda: Julien Lejay. — Finances: L. Mauchel.

Directors of the study groups:

Lemerle. — Julien Lejay. — Augustin Chaboseau. — Jules Lermina. — Émile Michelet. — A. de Wolska. —

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G. Vitoux. — L. Mauchel. — Gary de Lacroze. — G. Caminade. — Martin. — L. Stevenard. — Ch. Torquet. — A. François. — Papus.

Such is the current state of the movement. — May I be permitted, before closing, to express all my gratitude to those who helped our beginnings, to those who allowed us to bring out our first volumes or the first issues of our reviews.

Le Traité élémentaire de Science occulte, which subsequently went through four editions and is now out of print, was published thanks to the devoted assistance of Dr. G***, an ardent and eminent champion of humanitarian reforms — vegetarianism for the body and scientific renewal of morality for the soul.