![]() ![]() His older brother Adrien studied alchemy and occultism as well.īy the age of 26 he had formulated a complex, coherent cosmology of his own, based in part on world mythology, which he had studied from a young age, and deeply influenced by a tradition of pansophy (a way of combining all human knowledge according to analogical principles, and viewing human history through a form of allegorical hermeneutics, whereby events are interpreted as part of a larger narrative in which events within the human microcosm reflect the celestial macrocosm, and can be revealed through myths, legends, and their correspondences) and “philosophical” history that was eclipsed during the Enlightenment, but which remained a significant element in esoteric thought a complex of cultural currents that enjoyed a significant revival in the second half of the nineteenth century. ![]() ![]() After he failed his baccalaureate, he moved to Paris and became a literary and art critic. He studied at Jesuit colleges at Avignon and Nîmes. Péladan was born into a Lyon family that was Roman Catholic his father was a journalist who had written on prophecies, and professed a philosophic-occult Catholicism. ![]()
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