Gareth Knight News & Ideas

Sorry for the lack of new blog entries but I suffered a rather severe heart attack just six months ago and have needed to take things ea...

Papus, Monsieur Philippe & Envoys of Heaven Like his ‘Spiritual Master’, Papus was a strong partisan of reincarnation, particular...

More Papus on Reincarnation To   continue a little further with Papus’ book   Reincarnation:   Physical, Astral and Spiritual Evolut...

Papus on reincarnation In the first of his weighty occult books – Elementary Treatise on Occult Science (Traité Élémentaire de Scienc...

Rosa Crux -   spes unica! However, if truth were told, there is more of the ineffable about the Rosicrucian tradition than can be tol...

Rosicrucian traditions   In 1898, Papus, Paul Sédir and Marc Haven, confronted with the remarkable powers of Maïtre Philippe who work...

Faith We casually remarked, in a masterpiece of understatement in SH17 that back in 1890 Paul Sédir  made himself extremely useful to P...

Paul Sédir and the ‘Inconnu’ Yves le Loup (1871-1926) better known by his mystery name of Paul Sédir, one of the most erudite and exper...

  Marc Haven, Cagliostro and ‘Monsieur Philippe’ One evening the occult bookshop in the rue de Trévise, La Librairie du Merveilleux, ...

Barlet The name “Barlet” crops up in many places in Parisian esoteric circles during the Papus period, and is the pseudonym for Alber...