Biography
Contemporaries perceived papuzza in different ways: some seen in it the talented occultist and the insightful sorcerer, others - Charlatan. Emperor Nicholas II, for example, was one of the first. It is said that it was with the filing of Papus he became a massone. Anyway, the legacy of the man lives now. His books on practical magic, astrology and tarot cards are the most published in the sphere of esoteric.Childhood and youth
Present Name Papza - Gerard Anaclet Vensean Ankoss. He was born on July 13, 1865 in La Coruna, the large town of Spain, but he left him early. As soon as the sorcerer turned 4 years old, the family moved to France, from where his father Louis Ankoss came from.
As a child, the boy loved to read and spent most of the time in the walls of the Paris National Library. He scrupulously studied the works on magic, Kabbalah, Taro and Alchemy. An eliphas levie made a special impression. It was from his books Papus borrowed his pseudonym, which means "doctor."
Personal life
The man sought to comprehend white and black magic, solve the secret of witchcraft and damage, but remained ordinary mortal and had the right to a personal life.At the end of 1894, Matilda d'Arzhans turned to him for help - a young girl whose legs hit eczema. She thought she came to the most common French doctor, but was at the reception at the practitioner of the magician.
Papuz never touched Matilde d'Arzhans, did not study the affected skin. He "fell" her look and diagnosed - "disease from perfumes." And then I handed the client the amulets and ordered to apply to the patient places.
Matilda d'Arzhans Magic did not affect. She turned to another doctor who prescribed an effective ointment. Having learned about this, the man was only surprised that in the fight against the "disease from perfumes identified by him" such primitive means helped.
Papus and Matilda d'Arzhans got married on February 23, 1895, and on January 2, 1906 became the parents of the only child - the son of Philip Ankoss.
Teaching and book
The mistake with Matilda d'Arzhans was far from the only papus-doctor's career. He often set clients strange diagnoses, performed mystical rituals over them, distributed amulets and talismans. But these measures did not help "kill" Qingu or Leper. Therefore, the magician often received letters with accusations of charlatania.
The situation has changed after acquaintance with Philip Antelm, a French doctor. He explained the sorcerer that he needs to come to the patient, aware of his superiority. Papus felt almost demigod, granting health.
But in the magical abilities, the occultist was not equal. For advice to him also addressed the poor and rich. Rosencrayzer is believed to read the future on the signs of the zodiac, tarot cards and photographs. It is said that with the help of these attributes it is predicted by the death of the Romanov.
The look in the future wished to throw and Emperor Nicholas II. According to his will, the occultist came to Russia three times: in 1901, 1905 and 1906.
Papus is one of the greatest masons. For the first time, he was awarded in 1882, and already in 1887 founded the Order of the Higher Unknowns. This society exists now, but under another name - the Order of Martinists.
Kabbalistic Order of Roses + Cross - Another Immortal Chunkity of Papass, formed in 1888.
It is believed that it was Masonry that became the main theme of the dialogue between the magician and Nikolai II in 1901. True, this or not - it is unknown, but a few months after the occultist's visit to Russia, the emperor headed the Martinist Loop "Cross and Star".
It should be noted that Papus succeeded in the spread of occultism in Russia. In 1912, under his leadership, the martinist lodges opened in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Kiev.
Next time, Nikolai II turned to the Rosicracean in the midst of the first Russian revolution, to cause the spirit of his father Alexander III. Well, in the final trip, the sorcerer allegedly predicted the first world war.
In addition to the Order of Martinists and the Kabbalistic Order of Roses + Cross, existing and now, the author left a rich literary heritage. These are more than 400 articles and 25 books on magic and esoteric. Among them - "Practical Magic", "Hypnosis and Magic", "Introduction to Okultism", "Rustic Magic", "Science of Numbers".
Some of the books are collections. For example, "white and black magic" includes thoughts not only paws, but also Agripp Nettesheim, the occultist of the XV century, as well as Jules Lermina.
Death
Mysticals argue that the cause of the death of Rosenkreyser was not at all tuberculosis, which developed at the front in 1914, and the unwillingness to bring the victim.In the late 1913th Philip of Ankoss, the only son of Papass and Matilda d'Arzhans, cut a finger. The frivolous wound turned into a blood infection. Help the occultist - talismans, conspiracies, spells, love spells - did not bring fruits: 7-year-old boy died.
They say when the patient's condition became critical, the same Philip of Antelm dreameded Papes. He asked the mage to bring a boy sacrificing for the benefit of preserving the healing gift. Agree to such a father could not. He tripled the effort to save the Son.
Filipp Ankoss recovered, but the state of the health of Papups himself sharply deteriorated. Yes, and treat people as before, the occultist stopped. Increasingly, the fate of his patients ended in death, and not recovery.
Wanting to make as much as possible before the death, Paul went to the first world war. Historians claim that he did not share the wounded on his and strangers: healing and French, and Russians, and British. The magician did not gem and sick with tuberculosis.
The Biography of Papass was cut off on the 51st year of life on October 25, 1916 in Paris.
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