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Periodical: Le Soleil Mystique

Summary:  From Pat Deveney's database:

Soleil Mystique, Le.
Journal de la Maconnerie universelle: Sciences, litterature, voyages.
1853
Paris, France. Language: French. Publisher: A. Goubaud et Compagnie. Editor: J.E. Marconis de Negre. Succeeded by: Le Temple Mystique (1854); Le Pantheon maconnique (1860); La Tribune maconnique (1866)
1/1, 1853.

This is a Masonic journal but is included here because of the role that J.-E. Marconis (or Marconis de Negre) played in the spread of the Rite of Memphis, around which John Yarker, Theodor Reuss, Papus (Gerard Encausse), et al. built their all-encompassing occult schemes. The journal devoted itself to what it called "Maconnerie occulte" which "had as its goal initiation into the sciences which were secretly practiced in the Egyptian sanctuaries." Marconis was not named as the editor but appears as contributor of "L'Esoterisme maconnique," "L'Initiateur," and other articles. He had earlier helped edit Le Vengeur. On him see the note under Temple Mystique.

Other Sources:BNF.
Issues:Soleil Mystique V1 1853
Claude-Generated Themes:   Le Soleil Mystique was an 1853 French occult-Masonic review that read Freemasonry as the modern heir of the ancient mysteries. Its pages turn on initiation itself — a running series on the 'Chevalier Adepte,' the 'last degree of the initiation of the ancients,' the 'Masons and Levites of the true light,' the knights of the Temple devoted to the sciences and dogmas 'brought from the Thebaïd' — knitting Egyptian and Greek mystery lore into the high grades of the craft. Though a keyword panel reads its frequent 'esprit' and 'séance' as spiritualism, in this Masonic setting those mean 'spirit' and 'lodge session,' and no spiritist content is present. What the journal genuinely pursues is an ancient-mysteries esotericism, an occult and hermetic interpretation of Masonic initiation.

Generated by Claude from the periodical's digitized text; a thematic reading, not a bibliographic description.
Topics:Freemasonry and Masonic Orders