Papus - Definition and Overview

Gerard Encausse (July 13, 1865 - 1916), whose esoteric pseudonym was Papus, was the Spanish-born French physician, hypnotist, and popularizer of occultism, who founded the modern Martinist Order. "Papus" was also a member of the Golden Dawn temple in Paris, apparently, 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, Philippe Nizier de Lyon.

His early readings in the Tarot and the lore of the Kabbala in translation was inspired by the occult writings of Eliphas Lévi, whose translation of the "Nuctemeron of Apollonius of Tyana" printed as a supplement to Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1855), provided Encausse with his nom de plume: "Papus" means "physician."

In 1888, Papus was a founder of the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Croix. See Rosicrucians.

External links

• T. Apiryon, brief biography (http://www.hermetic.com/sabazius/papus.htm)

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