Napoleon's Sorcerers: The SophisiansAssociated University Presse, 2007 - 215 pages During Napoleon's rule, Freemasonic circles in France invented rituals that allegedly first took place in the temple structures of ancient Egypt. This book looks at the cultural environment and intellectual background of one such pseudo-Egyptian secret society, the Sacred Order of the Sophisians. |
Table des matières
Some Sophisian Precursors Comte de Cagliostro Vivant Denon and Benjamin de Laborde | 29 |
Vivant Denon | 30 |
Benjamin de Laborde | 33 |
Encounter in Naples | 36 |
Giuseppe Balsamo Comte de Cagliostro | 38 |
Egyptian Freemasonry | 40 |
The Laboratory of Reason Egypt from the Philosophes to Napoleons Oriental Dream | 46 |
Egypt an Enlightenment Project | 48 |
Professorship of the Grand Mysteries | 99 |
Sophisian Syncretism | 105 |
The Sophisians on Stage Boulevard Theaters and the Spell of Egyptomania | 111 |
Cuvelier de Trie and Revolutionary Theater | 112 |
Napoleon and the Parisian Stages | 115 |
The AmbiguComique Theater and the Cirque Olympique | 116 |
Freemasonry and Theater Life | 121 |
Melodrama and the Empowerment of Imagination | 123 |
Esoteric Egypt | 50 |
The Sophisians in Egypt | 53 |
The Egyptian Campaign and the French Press | 57 |
Under the Pyramids of Paris Sophisian Rituals and the Golden Book | 62 |
The Golden Book of the Bibliotheque Nationale | 68 |
Aspirants | 82 |
Scholar of Hieroglyphics | 85 |
Egyptosophy versus AntiEgyptosophy | 130 |
Members of the Sacred Order of the Sophisians | 143 |
Notes | 161 |
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