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Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse, known as Papus (1865-1916)
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Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse, known as Papus (1865-1916)
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See original version (French)
Estimate €1,000 - €1,500
Voluntary lot
Description
Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse, known as Papus (1865-1916)
Iconographic set on spiritualism (used for presentation sessions given by Papus), c. 1910-1915.
Convocation to the École d'Hermétique, the Martinist Order and Osiris Lodge 318. Experience of externalisation of sensitivity. Astral delusions. Mediums Charles Victor Miller, Mary Brown, Ofélia Corralès, William Keller, Professor Moutonnier. Experiments of Doctor Julian Ochorowicz. Reproductions of Egyptian funerary artefacts. Reproductions of engravings.
93 positive gelatin silver bromide projection glass plates, as well as two (2) negative gelatin silver bromide glass plates, preserved in their original boxes. Numerous annotations on labels and boxes. Visiting card from Dr Philippe Encausse (Papus's son) on one of the boxes.
Sizes: from 8.5 x 10 to 9 x 12 cm
Founded by Papus in 1891, the Martinist Order drew on an esoteric and theurgic Christian tradition dating back to Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin. Against the backdrop of triumphant positivism, many of these occult movements were led by doctors and scientists who sought to oppose scientism with a science of the invisible - and used photography as a tool of legitimisation, invoking its alleged documentary neutrality to accredit mediumistic phenomena and astral duplications.
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