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Periodical: Almanach Theurgique

Summary:   From Pat Deveney's database:

Language: French.
Almanach Theurgique de Zouave Jacob, Theurge Guerisseur.
1888?-1906? Annual
Paris, France.
This was the companion of Revue Theurgique, filled with long discourses on theurgy ("une science divine a l'aide de laquelle les etres [sic] d'ici-bas se mettent, par evocation, en rapport avec les humains qui ont vecu sur la terre ou dans d'autres mondes.") and on Jacob's confusing free-thought Calendrier Theurgique which sought to replace the Catholic calendar of saints' days with one of his own devising, was based on reverence for Buddha, Ieseus Christna, Apollonius of Tyana, et al.

Other Sources:BNF.
Issues:Almanach Theurgique 1906
Claude-Generated Themes:   The Almanach Théurgique (Paris, 1906) is a 'theurgic' almanac laid out on the framework of the Republican calendar, its days marked with secular feast-figures (Jacques de Molay, Linné, La Condamine) in place of saints. Its substance is a blend of spiritism — the evocation of the dead, the périsprit, the séance — with the older language of animal magnetism (the magnétiseur, the somnambule, the odic fluid), all animated by a militant anticlerical and progressive-Republican freethought. 'Theurgy' names its occult framing and its practice of evocation rather than any Thelemic ceremonial order. In the taxonomy it belongs with spiritualism, reaching into animal magnetism and occult science, with its freethought polemic noted as context beyond the topic set.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Physical Phenomena of Mediumship