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Manichaeism and Rosicrucianism
When we consider Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism, we are often led to Hermeticism and the Kabbalah, as well as Christian mysticism, as being the historical foundations of our tradition. Yet there is also a mystical...
The Secret Pansophic Sphere & Serpent Method: For Golden Dawn Higher Grades & Advanced...
In this blog post we share one of the higher unpublished teachings of our Pansophic system. Loosely called the Sphere and Serpent method amongst friends, this teaching was originally intended for the higher grades of...
Alois Mailander: Popular Today but Never Wanted Publicity
The Dilemma of Making a Humble Adept Public
Nobody talked about him, nobody mentioned him by name, his teachings were anonymized and little known. If he was ever mentioned in public articles, his name was...
Was Blavatsky Mailander’s Student? How the Claim Started in Germany from a Letter of...
Willy Schrödter claimed in his Rosicrucian Notebook that Madam Blavatsky was Alois Mailander’s student. How did this story come about? In this post we share a 1941 letter, which is the real source of...
The Emerald Tablet by Wilhelm Christoph Kriegsmann (1633-1679) Fully Translated
A Translation Suitable for Rosicrucians
Several translations of the Emerald Tablet never really spoke to me. There is one version of the Emerald Tablet, however, I treasure for my own path. In this post, I...
The Kybalion and its Hermetic Brotherhood Origins
The Origins of Atkinson's Kybalion Solved
One of the things quietly shared within the inner circle of Pansophers is that the famous occult writer William Walker Atkinson was, in fact, a member of the Hermetic...
Casting Light on Lucifer: Péladan’s Rosicrucianism in Translation
Following on from The Legends of the Fall retold, to discover Péladan's Luciferian visions and Orphic dreams, where better to look than the original sources? An introduction such as this may point the way...
Legends of the Fall Retold: Péladan on Lucifer & His Doctrine of Regeneration
Lucifer & Our Divine Human Potential
We are understanding what we have made, and its shape is ours; we have made history... the laws that govern it are not the laws of nature, but they...
Peladan’s Vision: Why Esoteric Art Can Save the World
In the Spring of 1892, the Paris gendarmerie were perplexed at the sight of a flood of crowds and carriages on their way to the Galeries Durand-Ruel, where they were met by a curious...
Péladan’s Occult Curriculum for Self-Initiation
Péladan published several dozen books, hundreds of articles, essays, and pamphlets throughout his lifetime. Though vast and easy to get lost in, his body of work is unified by his grand vision for sparking...
Illustrating Péladan: Scholarship, Practice, and Art
In my introductory post I gave an outline of how I came to study Péladan's work, along with a list of what has emerged from those studies. What few people realise, since I approached...
Joséphin Péladan: Getting to Know the Rosicrucian Visionary
Péladan the novelist, sketch by Sasha Chaitow, 2018.
History has not been kind to Josephin Péladan. An enormously prolific author with a vision for societal reform through art, he is usually consigned to a footnote or...
Böhme, the Divine Feminine Saviour, and the French Gnostic Church
There is perhaps no esoteric movement more misunderstood than the French Gnostic Church. What few realize about the Church, is that when Bricaud became Patriarch and was ordained in the French Gallican Church, much of...
See the Videos: Talks on Péladan Presented by Sasha Chaitow
This page is a collection of recorded lectures I have delivered on Péladan at various venues over the past few years, gathered here as an offering to the Pansophers community. Additional multimedia (podcasts and...
