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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.

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

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;

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;

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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;