![]() ![]() ![]() Inseparable from this cultural advancement was the explosion of occult activity taking place in the City of Light at the same time.Įxploring the magical, artistic, and intellectual world of the Belle Époque, Tobias Churton shows how a wide variety of Theosophists, Rosicrucians, Martinists, Freemasons, Gnostics, and neo-Cathars called fin-de-siècle Paris home. Reveals how occult activity deeply influenced many well-known cultural movements, such as Symbolism, the Decadents, modern music, and the “psychedelic 60s”ĭuring Paris’s Belle Époque (1871-1914), many cultural movements and artistic styles flourished-Symbolism, Impressionism, Art Nouveau, the Decadents-all of which profoundly shaped modern culture.Examines the remarkable lives of occult practitioners Joséphin Peladan, Papus, Stanislas de Guaïta, Saint-Yves d’Alveydre, Jules Doinel, and others. ![]() How fin-de-siècle Paris became the locus for the most intense revival of magical practices and doctrines since the Renaissance ![]()
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