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Fin-de-siècle French esotericism · from the IAPSOP archive

L'Initiation — revue philosophique independante des hautes etudes (Papus / Gerard Encausse, dir.), Paris, Oct. 1888 – Sept. 1912 — complete digitized run

Monthly periodical, vols. 1–96 (1888–1912); scanned issues, IAPSOP archive

Preserved in the archive of the housea source of Belle-Époque occult revival (Papus, L'Initiation, 1888)

The complete text — part 2 of 2

Initiation 1908 V80 N10 Jul

Initiation 1908 V80 N11 Aug

Initiation 1908 V80 N12 Sep.

Initiation 1908 V81 N1 Oct

Initiation 1908 V81 N2 Nov

Initiation 1908 V81 N3 Dec

Initiation 1909 V82 N4 Jan

Initiation 1909 V82 N5 Feb

Initiation 1909 V82 N6 Mar

Initiation 1909 V83 N7 Apr

Initiation 1909 V83 N8 May

Initiation 1909 V83 N9 Jun

Initiation 1909 V84 N10 Jul

Initiation 1909 V84 N11 Aug

Initiation 1909 V84 N12 Sep

Initiation 1909 V85 N1 Oct

Initiation 1909 V85 N2 Nov

Initiation 1909 V85 N3 Dec

Initiation 1910 V86 N4 Jan

Initiation 1910 V86 N5 Feb

Initiation 1910 V86 N6 Mar

Initiation 1910 V87 N7 Apr

Initiation 1910 V87 N8 May

Initiation 1910 V87 N9 Jun

Initiation 1910 V88 N10 Jul

Initiation 1910 V88 N11 Aug

Initiation 1910 V88 N12 Sep

Initiation 1910 V89 N1 Oct

Initiation 1910 V89 N2 Nov

Initiation 1910 V89 N3 Dec

Initiation 1911 V90 N4 Jan

Initiation 1911 V90 N5 Feb

Initiation 1911 V90 N6 Mar

Initiation 1911 V91 N7 Apr

Initiation 1911 V91 N8 May

Initiation 1911 V91 N9 Jun

Initiation 1911 V92 N10 Jul

Initiation 1911 V92 N11 Aug

Initiation 1911 V92 N12 Sep

Initiation 1911 V93 N1 Oct

Initiation 1911 V93 N2 Nov

Initiation 1911 V93 N3 Dec

Initiation 1912 V94 N4 Jan

Initiation 1912 V94 N5 Feb

Initiation 1912 V94 N6 Mar

Initiation 1912 V95 N7 Apr

Initiation 1912 V95 N8 May

Initiation 1912 V95 N9 Jun

Initiation 1912 V96 N10-12 Jul-Sep

Claude-Generated Themes:

L'Initiation, founded in Paris in 1888 by Papus (Gérard Encausse), was the flagship review of the French occult revival and one of the most important esoteric journals of its age. Its subject is the 'science occulte' entire: dense Kabbalah in the Christian-occult mode of the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross, the Tarot that Papus made his own, astrology, ceremonial magic, and a substantial medical wing of hypnotism and animal magnetism running from Charcot and Bernheim to the mesmeric magnétiseurs. It converses on equal terms with Freemasonry, the Theosophical Society and Kardecist spiritism while keeping a Martinist devotional core — the initiatic prayer 'to Papus, who knows how to pray.' To read it is to read the whole ecology of turn-of-the-century French esotericism in one place.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.

Topics:Ceremonial Magic and Thelema | Freemasonry and Masonic Orders | Hermeticism and Western Esotericism | Hypnotism and Suggestion | Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism | Occult Science and Esoteric Philosophy | Spiritualism | Swedenborgian and New Church | Theosophy