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Who Was Swami Sevananda (Léo Costet de Mascheville)? — English Translation/Biography
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Belle-Époque occult revival (Papus, L'Initiation, 1888)Fin-de-siècle French esotericism · late 19th c. CEgrounds · high
Read the original · iapsop ↗Martinez de PasquallyMartinism / Élus Coëns · c. 1727–1774 CEgrounds · high
Read the original · archive.org ↗Pseudo-Dionysius the AreopagiteChristian apophatic theology · late 5th–early 6th c. CEderives-motif-from · asserted
“Guide us to that topmost height of mystic lore which exceedeth light and more than exceedeth knowledge, where the simple, absolute, and unchangeable mysteries of heavenly Truth lie hidden in the dazzling obscurity of the secret Silence.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— The Mystical Theology, ch. 1, trans. C. E. Rolt (1920)
Sri AurobindoModern Integral Yoga (India) · 1872–1950 CEparallels · medium
“All life is Yoga.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— The Synthesis of Yoga, opening line of the Introduction ('The Conditions of the Synthesis'); first serialized in the Arya, 1914–1921