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The Secret Message of Jules Verne: Decoding His Masonic, Rosicrucian, and Occult Writings
An exploration of how Jules Verne used his writings to encrypt important Masonic and Rosicrucian secrets and sacred symbolism
• Investigates Verne’s connections to the prominent secret societies of his Freemasons, Golden Dawn, Angelic Society, and Rosicrucians
• Reveals how certain of Verne’s works hold the key to deciphering the Rennes-le-Château mystery
• Explores Verne’s relations with other authors whose works reveal similar esoteric George Sand, Gaston Leroux, Bram Stoker, and Maurice Leblanc
Prolific author and pioneer of the science fiction novel, Jules Verne also possessed a hidden side that was encrypted into all his works--his active participation in the occult milieu of late-nineteenth-century France. Among the many esoteric secrets to be found are significant clues to the Rennes-le-Château mystery, including the location of a great treasure in the former Cathar region of France and the survival of the heirs to the Merovingian dynasty. Verne’s books also reveal Rosicrucian secrets of immortality, and some are constructed, like Mozart’s The Magic Flute , in accordance with Masonic initiation.
The passe-partout to Verne’s work (the skeleton key that is also the name of Phileas Fogg’s servant in Around the World in Eighty Days ) lies in the initiatory language he employed to inscribe a second or even third layer of meaning beneath the main narrative, which is revealed in his skilled use of word play, homonyms, anagrams, and numerical combinations. The surface story itself is often a guide that tells the reader outright what he or she should be looking for. Far from innocuous stories for children, Verne’s work reveals itself to be rich with teachings on symbolism, esoteric traditions, sacred geography, and the secret history of humanity.
• Investigates Verne’s connections to the prominent secret societies of his Freemasons, Golden Dawn, Angelic Society, and Rosicrucians
• Reveals how certain of Verne’s works hold the key to deciphering the Rennes-le-Château mystery
• Explores Verne’s relations with other authors whose works reveal similar esoteric George Sand, Gaston Leroux, Bram Stoker, and Maurice Leblanc
Prolific author and pioneer of the science fiction novel, Jules Verne also possessed a hidden side that was encrypted into all his works--his active participation in the occult milieu of late-nineteenth-century France. Among the many esoteric secrets to be found are significant clues to the Rennes-le-Château mystery, including the location of a great treasure in the former Cathar region of France and the survival of the heirs to the Merovingian dynasty. Verne’s books also reveal Rosicrucian secrets of immortality, and some are constructed, like Mozart’s The Magic Flute , in accordance with Masonic initiation.
The passe-partout to Verne’s work (the skeleton key that is also the name of Phileas Fogg’s servant in Around the World in Eighty Days ) lies in the initiatory language he employed to inscribe a second or even third layer of meaning beneath the main narrative, which is revealed in his skilled use of word play, homonyms, anagrams, and numerical combinations. The surface story itself is often a guide that tells the reader outright what he or she should be looking for. Far from innocuous stories for children, Verne’s work reveals itself to be rich with teachings on symbolism, esoteric traditions, sacred geography, and the secret history of humanity.
320 pages, Paperback
First published June 13, 2007
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May 22, 2012
One of the first things that I dislike about reprints is the cover outlining the contents most are as mild as babies bottoms to other avid readers there are
No secrets but we are told that cryptographs appeared in all his books revealing esoteric rites, that he was a mason, with vast occult knowledge
Known only to Masonic brethren its mentioned GEOMETRY--- TRIGONOMETRY... which is taught to children in schools he also mentioned
"Rose-Cross" and "Rosicrucian" rennie-le-chateau these books are becoming as common as the book JAWS did for second-hand book-shops back in the 1980 mind you it takes you 135 pages before the author tells you he was not a member !!!!
But was accused of revealing secrets to the world even in veiled form ???
Well I have not written this book, I don’t stay in France. And nor am I an authority of Joan-of –arc…. But I will reveal veiled as it was in TV, shows assumions of secrets
In Colombo… staring Peter Falk “he states “that who will help the widow’s son” he shouts it
For help form a fellow mason...
In “hill street blues” the Rosicrucian order is also mentioned with the death of Sgt. Phil Esterhaus (Michael Conrad … there was a whole
espisode of “morse” were john thaw was persacuted by a mason whos mind was unbalanceed as they said to him at the end of the episode
bulwer-lyton who wrote the book Zanoni about beings that live under the earth and are intellectury & technically supior to humans mind you you would have had to come from outer-space not to realise that it was about lodges masonic & sectrain
I can adenttify with the author of thease books as for more that twenty years I have been told that I am not a menber of any of thease covert orders just because I read thease. Book. ???
No secrets but we are told that cryptographs appeared in all his books revealing esoteric rites, that he was a mason, with vast occult knowledge
Known only to Masonic brethren its mentioned GEOMETRY--- TRIGONOMETRY... which is taught to children in schools he also mentioned
"Rose-Cross" and "Rosicrucian" rennie-le-chateau these books are becoming as common as the book JAWS did for second-hand book-shops back in the 1980 mind you it takes you 135 pages before the author tells you he was not a member !!!!
But was accused of revealing secrets to the world even in veiled form ???
Well I have not written this book, I don’t stay in France. And nor am I an authority of Joan-of –arc…. But I will reveal veiled as it was in TV, shows assumions of secrets
In Colombo… staring Peter Falk “he states “that who will help the widow’s son” he shouts it
For help form a fellow mason...
In “hill street blues” the Rosicrucian order is also mentioned with the death of Sgt. Phil Esterhaus (Michael Conrad … there was a whole
espisode of “morse” were john thaw was persacuted by a mason whos mind was unbalanceed as they said to him at the end of the episode
bulwer-lyton who wrote the book Zanoni about beings that live under the earth and are intellectury & technically supior to humans mind you you would have had to come from outer-space not to realise that it was about lodges masonic & sectrain
I can adenttify with the author of thease books as for more that twenty years I have been told that I am not a menber of any of thease covert orders just because I read thease. Book. ???
February 26, 2025
A really good book showing the heritage of different Western secret societies and using the books of Jules Verne as a cypher tying them together. The book's biggest and also most interesting component is it uses an alleged Knights Templar treasure as the biggest evidence of Verne's occult wisdom of secret societies' lineage. This Rennes-le-Chateau legend (which I believe inspired "The Da Vinci Code") takes up a large part of the book then gets abandoned without ever being proven beyond some clever interpretations of a code left in Verne's novels. Still, I really enjoyed the book because its packed with obscure references and history. Some of the claims left me skeptical but I appreciate the imagination and research of the writer.
April 24, 2014
Could barely finish this one. Took me forever and I think I had to skipp several pages, sometimes even chapters.
The language was a bit difficult to understand, but that could be because of my ridiculously limited vocabulary, and I think that contributed to my lack of interest.
The language was a bit difficult to understand, but that could be because of my ridiculously limited vocabulary, and I think that contributed to my lack of interest.
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