A ciência dos magos: e suas aplicações teóricas e práticas

by Papus

Edição especial da obra A ciência dos magos, em capa dura, com gravuras de Louis Delfosse e projeto gráfico de Tereza Bettinardi.

Publicado na França em 1892, este pequeno compêndio do conhecimento esotérico está fundamentado na obra de grandes mestres ocultistas da Antiguidade e, sobretudo, da Renascença, como Cornelius Agrippa, Jacob Boehme, Paracelso e Robert Fludd. Nos antigos santuários ocultistas, onde era ensinada a ciência desses sábios, o estudo e o manejo das forças astrais constituíam parte do saber transmitido pelos alquimistas e místicos do passado.

Em contraposição ao materialismo científico do século XIX, Papus defende essa antiga ciência, resignificando o papel da espiritualidade na vida humana. À medida que o cientificismo moderno era cético quanto às forças que interligam o microcosmo, o macrocosmo e o mundo divino, o autor mostra que há uma conexão íntima e eterna entre o homem, a natureza e Deus.

A ciência dos magos é leitura fundamental para quem busca um caminho que leve à ascese espiritual.

Paperback

First published February 1, 2013

About the author

Gerard Encausse, whose esoteric pseudonym was Papus, was born at Corunna (La Coruña) in Spain on July 13, 1865, of a Spanish mother and a French father, Louis Encausse, a chemist. His family moved to Paris when he was four years old, and he received his education there.
As a young man, Encausse spent a great deal of time at the Bibliothèque Nationale studying the Kabbalah, occult tarot, the sciences of magic and alchemy, and the writings of Eliphas Lévi. He joined the French Theosophical Society shortly after it was founded by Madame Blavatsky in 1884 - 1885, but he resigned soon after joining because he disliked the Society's emphasis on Eastern occultism.

In 1888, he co-founded his own group, the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Croix. That same year, he and his friend Lucien Chamuel founded the Librarie du Merveilleux and its monthly revue L'Initiation, which remained in publication until 1914.
Encausse was also a member of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn temple in Paris, as well as Memphis-Misraim and probably other esoteric or paramasonic organizations, as well as being an author of several occult books. Outside of his paramasonic and Martinist activities he was also a spiritual student of the French spiritualist healer, Anthelme Nizier Philippe, "Maître Philippe de Lyon".
Despite his heavy involvement in occultism and occultist groups, Encausse managed to find time to pursue more conventional academic studies at the University of Paris. He received his Doctor of Medicine degree in 1894 upon submitting a dissertation on Philosophical Anatomy. He opened a clinic in the rue Rodin which was quite successful.

When World War I broke out, Encausse joined the French army medical corps. While working in a military hospital, he contracted tuberculosis and died on October 25, 1916, at the age of 51.

Reviews

[Vitor Reinaque · Rating 4 out of 5]

Com uma escrita intimista e direta, Papus introduz de forma breve as bases do ocultismo ocidental no século XIX. Diversas considerações interessantes, ainda que algumas das ideias apresentadas já tenham sido atualizadas. Às vezes divaga sobre correntes diferentes, mas nada que prejudique a obra. Não espere aprender rituais e magia prática, é apenas um esboço geral feito para leigos.

[Maju Moura · Rating 4 out of 5]

sinto que preciso ler de novo pra entender mais porém gostei muito