Gérard Encausse
Gérard Encausse, Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse, Papus
France 1865 - 1916
“In more remote times, the constituent originating assemblies of the O.T.O. included such men as: … And recently: Papus (Dr. Encausse)“—Liber LII Manifesto of the O.T.O.
Events
- Lesser Feast of Gérard Encausse, Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse, Papus, born July 13, 1865 at A Coruña, Galicia, Spain.
- Greater Feast of Gérard Encausse, Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse, Papus, died October 25, 1916 at Paris, France
Saint of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica
Gérard Encausse appears in all versions of the Saints of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica in Liber XV, published during Aleister Crowley's lifetime. Gérard Encausse is on the full list of all versions, and is therefore a name celebrated only at performances when the complete Saints Collect is read.
| Gnostic Saint | International | Equinox | Magick in Theory and Practice |
| Gérard Encausse | Doctor Gerard Encausse | Doctor Gérard Encausse | Doctor Gérard Encausse |
Comments
Tarot; Medical Dr; Emphasized the Qabalistic nature of the Tarot, while infusing other Hermetic Wisdom and Egyptian mythology into the Universal Archetypes of the Cards; false allegation that Papus was the author who forged the antisemitic Protocols of the Elders of Zion for the Tzar; founder Martinist Order; esoteric, but not Blue Lodge Freemason; Creator of quasi - Magical Masonic Rites;
Connections
Influences
Anthelme Nizier Philippe AKA “Maître Philippe de Lyon; Éliphas Lévi, Martinèz de Pasqually AKA Martinez Paschalis; Henri Vicomte de Laage; Jules Doinel; Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre; Antoine Fabre d'Olivet; Stanislas de Guaita; John Yarker; Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie; Johannes Valentinus Andreae AKA Christian Rosenkreutz; Madame Blavatsky; Bonifacio Bembo, artist of the Visconti Tarot deck; Antoine Count de Gébelin aka Court de Gébelin, author of Les Monde Primitif; Etteilla AKA Jean-Baptiste Alliette, whom he nevertheless derided; Comte de Mellet AKA Louis Raphael Lecrece de Fayolle; “Thoth Hermes Trismegistus”; Jean Alexandre Vaillant, author of Les Romes: histoire vraie des vrais Bohémiens; Raymond Lull aka Raymond Lully; Jerome Cardan; Guillaume Postel aka William Postel; Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin , the Unknown Philosopher, author of Tableau Naturel des Rapports; William Wynn Westcott, translater of the Seper Yetzirah; Dr. John Dee; Athanasius Kircher; Lenain Lazare, author of La Sciece Kabbalistique; Paul-Francois-Gaspard Lacuria, author of Les Harmonies de L'Etre Exprimees (par les nombres Louis Lucas, author of Le Roman alchimique; Aristotle; Ostroski, author of Mathese, 1839; Pythagoras; W. A. Chatto, author of Facts and Superstitions on the Origins and History of Playing Cards in Europe, 1848; Paul Boiteau d'Ambly, author of Les cartes à jouer et la cartomancie, 1854; “Merlin”, author of Origine Des Cartes a Jouer: Recherches Nouvelles Sur Les Naibis, Les Tarots, 1869; M. Barrois, creator of signs for the Deaf, called Dactylology; Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont; Pierre Christian, author of Histoire de Ia Magic;Adolphe Franck, author of La Kabbale aka Kabbalah or the Religious Philosophy of the Hebrews, 1843; Hoene Wronski, author of Messianisme, 1825; M. Carre, author of L’Occultisme Contemporain; Johannes Trithemius; Cornelius Agrippa; Baruch Spinoza;
Influenced
Theodor Reuss; Aleister Crowley William Butler AKA W. E. Butler; Jean-Baptiste Willermoz; Charles Detre AKA Teder; Jean Bricaud; Victor Blanchard (AKA Sar Yesir) ; Victor-Emile Michelet; Augustin Chaboseau; his son Jean Chaboseau; A.E. Waite; Pamela Colman Smith; Barbara Moore; Rachel Pollack ; Eden Gray ; Mary K. Greer; Gerd Ziegler; Robert Wang; Paul Foster Case; Bill F. Greer ; Robin Wood; Lon Milo DuQuette and Constance DuQuette ; Colette Baron-Reid; Anne Stokes ; Donald Tyson; Frankie Albano; Terry Donaldson; Peter Pracownik; Sallie Ann Glassman; John Matthews; Caitlin Matthews; Chic Cicero ; Sandra Tabatha Cicero; Mary Hanson-Roberts; Eileen Connolly; Samael Aun Weor; William De Laurence aka De Laurence; Angeles Arrein; Stuart R. Kaplan; Madeline Montalban; Naomi Ozaniec; Tom Little; Marcus Katz; Oscar Schlag; Fred Rothwell; Marguerite Vallior, translator of his Reincarnation: Physical, Astral & Spiritual Evolution; Robert Ambelain;
Acquaintances
Lucien Chamuel ; Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra of Russia; Joséphin Péladan; Augustin Chaboseau; Oswald Wirth; Jean Carrère; Emile Dantinne
Conflicts
Organizations
Theosophical Society; Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Croix; Librarie du Merveilleux; Hermetic Brotherhood of Light; Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn; Order of Martinist AKA l'Ordre des Supérieurs Inconnus; The Gnostic Catholic Church of France AKA l'Église Gnostique de France; never became a regular (Grand Orient) Freemason; O.T.O. Gnostic Catholic Church ; Masonic Rite of Memphis and Misraim; Scottish Rite of Freemasonry;
Author
L'Occultisme Contemporain. 1887; Elementary Treatise on Occult Scienc, 1888; L'Occultisme. 1890; Le Tarot Divinataire AKA The Tarot of the Bohemians, 1909; Reincarnation: Physical, Astral and Spiritual Evolution, translated by Marguerite Vallior; The Qabalah: Secret Tradition of the West aka The KabaLa, Secret Tradition of the West; What is Occultism? A Philosophical and Critical Study;
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References
External references
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2355398/?page=1 https://www.bmj.com/content/2/2922/922.8 - ”Dr. Gérard Encausse of Paris, who died recently, graduated M.D.Paris in 1894 with a thesis on philosophical anatomy and its divisions. In the following year he published a book on the cutaneous absorption of medicaments. He practised his profession, though in somewhat unorthodox fashion, for many years, but gave himself up more and more to the study of magic and sorcery. He wrote a treatise on the occult sciences, essays on synthetic physiology, the external and psychical treatment of nervous diseases, and occultism and spiritualism, and a number of pamphlets. He founded L'Initiation and Le Voile d'Isis, organs of esoteric lore. He was better known by his adopted name of “Papus” than by his own. The word, we are told in the Chronique Medicale by Dr. Cabanès, who was a fellow student of Encausse, means physician according to Apollonius of Tyana.”
- Edouard Blitz, Ritual and Monitor of the Martinist Order, privately printed, Nevada, Missouri 1896
- Richard Cavendish, The Black Arts, G.P. Putnam's Sons, NY 1967
- W.B. Crow, A History of Magic, Witchcraft and Occultism, Aquarian Press, London 1968
- Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth [1944], Samuel Weiser, New York 1969/74
- Ellic Howe, “Papus” in Man, Myth and Magic, Richard Cavendish, Editor-in-Chief, Marshall Cavendish, New York, 1983
- Ellic Howe, The Magicians of the Golden Dawn, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, 1972
- Alex de Jonge, The Life and Times of Grigorii Rasputin, Dorset Press, NY 1982
- René Le Forestier, L'Occultisme en France aux XIXème et XXème siècles: L'Église Gnostique, Ouvrage inédit publié par Antoine Faivre, Archè, Milano 1990
- Christopher McIntosh, Eliphas Lévi and the French Occult Revival, Rider & Co., London 1972
- Papus ed., The Qabalah [1892], Thorsons, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire 1977
- Theodor Reuss, “Unser Orden” in Oriflamme, Jubelaeums-Ausgabe, Ludwigshafen 1912
- Leslie Shepard ed., Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology, 2nd. Ed., Gale Research Co., Detroit MI 1984
- Arthur Edward Waite, A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, Vol. I, University Books, NY 1970
- James Webb, The Occult Establishment, Library Press, LaSalle, Illinois 1976
- James Webb, The Occult Underground, Library Press, LaSalle, Illinois 1974
- Tau Apiryon and Helena, Red Flame No. 2 – Mystery of Mystery: A Primer of Thelemic Ecclesiastical Gnosticism, Berkeley, CA 1995