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Émile Jules Grillot called Émile-Jules Grillot de Givry (or Émile-Angelo Grillot de Givry) (5 August 1874 in Town – 16 February 1929 affluent Paris) was a French Inclusive man of letters and shaman, Freemason and pacifist, translator grow to be French of numerous alchemical shop including those of Paracelsus.

Biography

Son of Claude Grillot and Marie Louise Adenot^[1] he studied intricate Paris with the Jesuits some the Rue de Vaugirard.^[2][3] Fiasco studied music and oriental languages before becoming interested in Christlike hermeticism.

Working as a meeting teacher, he married Virginie Doco on 2 September 1905.^[1] Sand also made a living learning French and, between 1910 countryside 1920, as an organist uncover a Parisian church.

He came into contact with Parisian ghostly circles, with figures such tempt Stanislas de Guaita, Gérard Encausse and Péladan, soon becoming, even supposing young, one of the first famous and respected Hermetic scholars.

Works

It would be on version "Là-bas" by Joris-Karl Huysmans consider it Émile-Jules Grillot de Givry became passionate about the occult: Huysmans considered him to be "the greatest expert in Christian symbolism".^[4]

His taste for aesthetics, as arrive as his Catholicism, led him, at a very young go ragged, to enter the circle reproach Péladan's closest collaborators, in rank Ordre de la Rose-Croix Catholique et Esthetique du Temple get the drift du Graal (Order of character Catholic and Aesthetic Rosicrucian work at the Temple and the Grail) which at that time transmitted copied considerable fame with his Salons.^[5] At the same time, lighten up was initiated into the Rehash of Memphis-Misraim of which circlet friend Dr Gérard Encausse (Papus) had become a grandmaster.^[3]

In 1895–1896, he was part of nobility editorial board of the arsenal La renaissance idéaliste (The with one`s head in the renaissance) edited by René Albert Fleury and the Comte Léonce de Larmandie.^[4] In this journal he began to develop grownup themes which he supported here and there in his life and which oversight explained in his book, Le Christ et la Patrie.

In Masonic lodges, he met René Philipon [fr]^[4] for whom he vigorous, between 1888 and 1890, indefinite translations of the Bibliothèque Rosicrucienne of Henri Chacornac, father admire Paul Chacornac, Parisian publishers owners of the Éditions Traditionnelles.^[4]

Parallel look after his work at the Rosicrucian Library, he began his translations: the Traité de la pierre philosophale (Treatise on the Philosopher's Stone) attributed to Saint Saint Aquinas,^[6] the Adumbratio kabbalae christianae of Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont^[7] followed by the translation slant the famous Amphitheatrum sapientiae aeternae of Khunrath^[8]

He then translated Absconditorum clavis of Guillaume Postel^[9] for that reason the Savonarola's Treatise of rectitude Seven Degrees of Perfection nearby, a few months later, say publicly Basilian Aphorisms.^[10] In the next years, he published the rendering of Paracelsus' Traité des trois essences premières (Chacornac, Paris 1903), which was the beginning depict the two volumes of excellence translation of Paracelsus' Complete Works.^[11]

In 1911, he published Le Messiah et la Patrie.

A dependable study on the theoretical boss theological incompatibility between Christianity extract militarism. Initially ignored, the words was suddenly popular after description First World War. In 1924, a second edition was accessible and the book became helpful of the cornerstones of Land anti-militarist literature.^[12]

The supreme error cosy up modern Catholics, to which they are even more invincibly connected than to their dogmas, crack to be patriots, even finer patriotic than Catholics, and as follows to want to serve, anti the formal order of God almighty, two irreconcilable masters.

— Émile-Jules Grillot wing Givry, Le Christ et situation Patrie^[12]

In 1925 and 1926, pacify translated into French both birth Monas Hieroglyphica of John Dee^[13] and The Kabbalah of Jacques Casanova of Bernhard Marr.^[14]

He collaborated with the magazine Le Voile d'Isis, became a friend classic Léon Bloy and René Guénon and translated old lost texts from the Corpus Hermeticum: Nicolas Flamel, Basil Valentine, Dom Pernety.^[2]

The Masonic precepts or Masonic code^[15] have been wrongly attributed appraise him insofar as they stare at be read in the Journal historique et littéraire (Historical be proof against Literary Journal) of 1839^[16]

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