L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique [IAPSOP]

Periodical:	*L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique*

Summary:	From Pat Deveney's database: Annee Occultiste et Psychique, L'. Ou expose annuel des observations scientifiques et des travaux publies en France et à l'Etranger dans les sciences mysterieuses Astrologie, Alchimie, Symbolique, Esoterisme, arts divinatoires, Prophetique, psychisme, spiritisme, Magnetisme. 1908--1909 Paris, France. Language: French. Publisher: Henri Daragon. Editor: Pierre Piobb (Pierre Vincenti Comte da Piobetta). 1/1, 1908 (for the year 1907)-1909 (for 1908). "Piobb" (Comte Pierre Vincenti, 1874-1942) was a Corsican journalist and a well-respected astrologer, magician and occultist. He wrote on, among other things, Les Mysteres des Dieux: Venus, la Deesse Magique de la Chair, and a book on the secret of Nostradamus. This journal was to be an annual retrospective on things occult, and included articles by most of the leading occultists of the period: Piobb, Oswald Wirth, Ch. M. Limousin, Papus, Alta, Annie Besant, Teder, Ernest Bosc, Ch. Lancelin, Paul Vulliaud, Jollivet-Castelot, C. Camille Flammarion, "Jules Bois" (Henri Antoine Jules-Bois), and H. Durville, and many others. The journal gave a full account (from Le Voile d'Isis) of the Spiritualist Congress held in Paris in 1907. Apparently only two volumes were issued.
Other Sources:	LOC; BNF; ZDB: Freiburg Inst Grenzgeb Psychol; Berlin SBB Haus Potsdamer Str; Center for Research Libraries, Illinois; University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Issues:	L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique 1907
	L'Annee Occultiste et Psychique 1908
Claude-Generated Themes:	L'Année Occultiste et Psychique was a French annual that surveyed the occult and psychical world of the Belle Époque, moving in the milieu of Papus and Ernest Bosc. It was deliberately panoramic, and its subject headings are the whole map of French esotericism at the turn of the century: occultism and its initiatic orders, astrology, the tarot and the Kabbalah, mediumship and the spiritism of Allan Kardec, and — under the psychique of its title — hypnotism, suggestion and animal magnetism as the era's sciences of the mind. Its manner is that of a reviewer rather than a practitioner. One article works out a speculative philosophy of history in which civilizations wake toward their west and destroy the older cultures to their east; another describes an ingenious device of overlaid tracing-paper curves and a sliding cursor for reading planetary conjunctions and aspects at a glance. The annual is best used as a cross-section of French occultism and early psychical research, taken in a single year, rather than as the organ of any one school. Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:	Astrology \| Occult Science and Esoteric Philosophy \| Spiritism (Kardecist) \| Spiritualism \| Theosophy