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Periodical: La Rose Croix

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Rose + Croix, La .
Catalogue du Salon de la Rose-Croix / Ordre de la Rose-Croix du Temple et du Graal / Geste Esthetique / Catalogue des Oeuvres Exposees.
1892-1897? Called Monthly or Quarterly, but actually Annual
Paris, France. Language: French. Publisher: Commanderie de Tiphereth. Editor: Josephin Peladan.
1/1, 1892-1897(?) 5 francs a year.

This was in effect the catalogue of Sar Peladan's salons and Gestes Esthetiques in Paris in the 1890s, though it also served as a journal and advertisement for his Ordre de la Rose + Croix de Temple et du Graal, as well. Peladan was a prominent Symbolist artist of the fin de siecle, with a strong occult bent. Peladan had originally moved in the circle of Stanislas de Guaita's Rose-Croix kabbalistique but in 1890, principally because of his own strong Catholicism, he had abandoned de Guaita and his work and started his own salons.

Other Sources:ZDB: Stuttgart WLB; BNF.
Issues:La Rose Croix 1892-1893
Claude-Generated Themes:   La Rose+Croix belongs to Joséphin (Sâr) Péladan's Ordre de la Rose-Croix Catholique et Esthétique du Temple et du Graal and its celebrated Salon de la Rose+Croix (1892–1897), which sought spiritual regeneration through mystical art rather than lodge ritual. The sampled pages are Symbolist Salon reviews — painters named, canvases judged — a reminder that this Rosicrucianism was pursued aesthetically. It represents the fin-de-siècle French occult revival, a Catholic-and-artistic Rose-Croix quite distinct from the Masonic Rose Croix degree or the older German Rosenkreutz society. The mapping rests on the order's identity rather than on the thin phenomenological signal in the text.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Kabbalah and Jewish Mysticism | Rosicrucianism