Died 1916-10-25.
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Gérard Encausse
Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse, whose esoteric pseudonyms were Papus and Tau Vincent, was a French physician, hypnotist, and popularizer of occultism, who founded the modern Martinist Order.
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Born 13 July 1865 · Died 25 October 1916 · Q472671
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1916· 2 entries
Career landmark: funeral.
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1913· 1 entry
Encausse was elected as his successor to the office of Grand Hierophant (international head) of the Antient and Primitive Rite of Memphis and Mizraim
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1901· 1 entry
1905, and 1906, serving Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra both as physician and occult consultant
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1895· 1 entry
Doinel abdicated as Primate of the French Gnostic Church, leaving control of the Church to a synod of three of his former bishops, one of whom was Encausse
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1894· 1 entry
Upon submitting a dissertation on Philosophical Anatomy
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1893· 1 entry
Encausse was consecrated a bishop of l'Église Gnostique de France by Jules Doinel, who had founded this Church as an attempt to revive the Cathar religion in 1890
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1891· 1 entry
Encausse claimed to have come into the possession of the original papers of Martinez Paschalis, or de Pasqually (c
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1888· 2 entries
Encausse and de Guaita joined with Joséphin Péladan and Oswald Wirth to found the Rosicrucian Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Cross
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Encausse co-founded with Lucien Chamuel the Librairie du Merveilleux, a Parisian publishing house focused on esoteric works, and launched the journal L’Initiation, which he edited for nearly two decades
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1865· 1 entry
Born 1865-07-13.
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