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Tag: Joséphin Péladan

  • Antisocial Behavior

    Antisocial Behavior

    Before you think and choose, society takes over your being and moulds it, as is its right. Once you think and choose, remove those received imprints, that is to say, liberate yourself from contemporary habits, as is your right.

  • How to become a Mage

    This will, I hope, be an ongoing series of quotations from Josephin Peladan’s How to become a Mage (Comment on devient Mage). Perhaps there is still a chance to form young men with a free mind, not stuck in useless propaganda hoary with age. The art of life doesn’t consist in living large, but rather…

  • Metaphysical Positivism

    We, on the contrary—basing ourselves on a tradition much more ancient and real than the one which can be claimed by the “faith” of Western man, on a tradition which is not proved by doctrines, but by deeds and acts of power and clairvoyance—affirm instead the possibility and the concrete reality of what we have…

  • The French Hermetic Tradition

    Valentin Tomberg explains why he wrote his meditations on the major arcana of the Tarot in French: These letters were written in French, which is not the mother tongue of the author, because it is in France, and in France only, that a living literature on the Tarot has been perpetuated since the 18th century.…

  • The Highest of Pieties

    This passage is from the section Arcana of Adar or Persistence from Joséphin Péladan’s book Comment on devient Mage. Péladan was a devout Catholic as well as a Hermetist. Yet he recognizes that the Catholic faith makes sense only if it is the Primordial Tradition. All truth must be incorporated in it. The idea of…

  • Before you think and choose

    Before you think and choose

    Before you think and choose, society takes over your being and moulds it, as is its right. Once you think and choose, remove those received imprints, that is to say, liberate yourself from contemporary habits, as is your right.