The Count of Gabalis or Conversations on The Secret Sciences Renewed 1691
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This work caused a great stir as soon as it appeared. Because of the satyrs directed against the monks, the jokes about the loves of the sylphs with incubus demons, the way in which Gabalis interpreted the first sin of Adam and recounted the misfortune of Noah made a eunuch by Ham during his sleep, the profaned mysteries of the Rosicrucians, the secrets of the cabal ridiculed, Abbot Villars was deprived of the right to preach and his book condemned. It is even claimed that this writing cost the life of its author, assassinated a few years later, in broad daylight, on the road to Lyon, at the age of 38. Does not Villars seem to have foreseen the fate that was to be reserved for him when, on the subject of the death of Count Gabalis, he expressed himself in these terms: "An executioner angel has never failed to wring the neck of all those who have indiscreetly revealed the Mysteries Philosophical". " (Dorbon) The five conversations on the secret sciences are augmented by a "response to the letter to Monseigneur" which appears at the end. References: Caillet [III, 7707: "This is the edition of Pierre Marteau, à la sphère, of which some copies are undated"], Guaita [1904: Small anonymous edition "à la sphère" very rare]
This work caused a great stir as soon as it appeared. Because of the satyrs directed against the monks, the jokes about the loves of the sylphs with incubus demons, the way in which Gabalis interpreted the first sin of Adam and recounted the misfortune of Noah made a eunuch by Ham during his sleep, the profaned mysteries of the Rosicrucians, the secrets of the cabal ridiculed, Abbot Villars was deprived of the right to preach and his book condemned. It is even claimed that this writing cost the life of its author, assassinated a few years later, in broad daylight, on the road to Lyon, at the age of 38. Does not Villars seem to have foreseen the fate that was to be reserved for him when, on the subject of the death of Count Gabalis, he expressed himself in these terms: "An executioner angel has never failed to wring the neck of all those who have indiscreetly revealed the Mysteries Philosophical". " (Dorbon) The five conversations on the secret sciences are augmented by a "response to the letter to Monseigneur" which appears at the end. References: Caillet [III, 7707: "This is the edition of Pierre Marteau, à la sphère, of which some copies are undated"], Guaita [1904: Small anonymous edition "à la sphère" very rare]
This work caused a great stir as soon as it appeared. Because of the satyrs directed against the monks, the jokes about the loves of the sylphs with incubus demons, the way in which Gabalis interpreted the first sin of Adam and recounted the misfortune of Noah made a eunuch by Ham during his sleep, the profaned mysteries of the Rosicrucians, the secrets of the cabal ridiculed, Abbot Villars was deprived of the right to preach and his book condemned. It is even claimed that this writing cost the life of its author, assassinated a few years later, in broad daylight, on the road to Lyon, at the age of 38. Does not Villars seem to have foreseen the fate that was to be reserved for him when, on the subject of the death of Count Gabalis, he expressed himself in these terms: "An executioner angel has never failed to wring the neck of all those who have indiscreetly revealed the Mysteries Philosophical". " (Dorbon) The five conversations on the secret sciences are augmented by a "response to the letter to Monseigneur" which appears at the end. References: Caillet [III, 7707: "This is the edition of Pierre Marteau, à la sphère, of which some copies are undated"], Guaita [1904: Small anonymous edition "à la sphère" very rare]