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100 1 _aMagre, Maurice,
_d1877-1941
245 1 0 _aMagiciens et illuminés
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-08
505 0 _aApollonius de Tyane le voyageur. -- Le maître inconnu des albigeois. -- Christian Rosencreutz et les Rose-croix. -- Le mystère des Templiers. -- Nicolas Flamel et la pierre philosophale. -- Saint-Germain l'immortel. -- Madame Blavatsky et les théosophes
508 _aLaurent Vogel, Robin Tremblay and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by the Polona digital library)
520 _a"Magiciens et illuminés" by Maurice Magre is a collection of biographical and historical essays written in the early 20th century. It explores the lives and legends of esoteric “messengers” and occult figures—ancient and modern—while arguing that Eastern wisdom has repeatedly flowed to the West and been resisted, distorted, or persecuted. The work blends history, myth, and polemic to rehabilitate “imperfect masters” such as Apollonius of Tyana, the Cathars, Templars, Rosicrucians, Nicolas Flamel, Saint‑Germain, Cagliostro, and Mme Blavatsky. The opening of the book sets out a fervent preface: a perennial wisdom travels from East to West through brave but fallible messengers, only to meet organized hostility and corruption, a struggle Magre frames as a contest between white and black brotherhoods, with a hoped‑for future reconciliation. It then launches into a vivid life of Apollonius of Tyana—his wealthy youth, chosen chastity, Pythagorean initiation at Aegae, and long quest to India where the sages under Iarchas teach him occult science and charge him to purify worship and seed talismans of spirit; he returns to plant symbols (notably restoring Palamedes), travels widely, performs healings and discernments, disputes emperors, and finally vanishes, his pride and theatrics weighed against a rigorous ethic and a guiding daimon. A reflective interlude probes the nature of that inner voice (from Socrates to Neoplatonism), suggesting it may be either a higher self or a true guiding intelligence. The narrative then turns to the “unknown master” of the Cathars and the spread of a pure, ascetic doctrine across Europe, illustrated by episodes of fervor and persecution (Orléans, Monteforte, Eon de Loudéac, Tanquelin) and by Languedoc’s surge of renunciation and compassion. It closes this opening stretch by contrasting the cultured Midi with a hostile North and by introducing the Albigensian Crusade, driven by Innocent III and the ruthless Simon de Montfort. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cParis: Eugène Fasquelle, 1930
653 _aBlavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna), 1831-1891
653 _aSociety of Rosicrucians
653 _aApollonius, of Tyana
653 _aTemplars
653 _aAlbigenses
653 _aSaint-Germain, comte de, -1784
653 _aFlamel, Nicolas, -1418
856 4 _uhttps://polona.pl/preview/d5977db9-ec1f-4ab2-9055-ef3ce8d73ad0
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78400
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