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- Title
A controversial and ambiguous figure of Parisian Illuminism: J. Touzay-Du Chenteau (1741-1788).
- Authors
Faivre, Antoine
- Abstract
J. Touzay-Du Chenteau was an alchemist, theosophist, and Freemason. His writings, oral teachings, and "occult" practices, as well as his eccentric behaviour, attracted much curiosity between roughly 1775 and 1790. He is best known as the author of an extraordinary "Philosophical Map," which is an amazing compilation of esoteric and "Kabbalistic" drawings. He also published an hermetic dissertation Le Grand Livre de la Nature (The great book of Nature). He thus aroused the interest of Masonic circles versed in esotericism such as the Scottish Rectified Rite or the Philalethes. He will remain famous in the history of occultism because of his death caused by an odd experiment of "internal alchemy".
- Subjects
ESOTERICISM; THEOSOPHISTS; OCCULTISM
- Publication
Ritual, Secrecy & Civil Society, 2022, Vol 9, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2334-0797
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.18278/rscs.9.1.2