Georges Soulès (11 November 1907 – 26 August 1986), known by his pen name Raymond Abellio, was a French writer.

Life

Abellio went to the

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and then took part in the X-Crise Group. He advocated far-left ideas, but like many other

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, he joined the

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during the

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and became in 1942 secretary general of Eugène Deloncle's far-right ''

Mouvement Social Révolutionnaire The Revolutionary Social Movement (in French: ''Mouvement Social Révolutionnaire'' MSR) was a fascist movement founded in France in September 1940. Its founder was Eugène Deloncle, who was previously associated with '' La Cagoule'' . The MSR ...

'' (MSR) party. He then participated in

Marcel Déat Marcel Déat (7 March 1894 – 5 January 1955) was a French politician. Initially a socialist and a member of the French Section of the Workers' International (SFIO), he led a breakaway group of right-wing ' Neosocialists' out of the SFIO in 1933 ...

's attempt of creating a unified Collaborationist party. In April and September 1943 he participated in the ''Days of the Mont-Dore'', an assembly of collaborationist personalities under the patronage of

Philippe Pétain Henri Philippe Benoni Omer Pétain (24 April 1856 – 23 July 1951), commonly known as Philippe Pétain (, ) or Marshal Pétain (french: Maréchal Pétain), was a French general who attained the position of Marshal of France at the end of Worl ...

. After the

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, he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment ''

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'' for Collaborationism, and escaped to Switzerland. However, he was pardoned in 1952 and went on to start a literary career. Besides his literary career, under the influence of Pierre de Combas, he developed an interest in

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, and especially

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. He was also interested in the possibility of a secret numerical code in the

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, a subject that he developed in ''La Bible, document chiffré'' in 1950, and later in ''Introduction à une théorie des nombres bibliques'', in 1984. He proposed in particular that the number of the beast, 666, was the key number of life, a manifestation of the holy trinity on all possible levels, material, animist and spiritual. He has also written on the philosophy of

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.R. ABELLIO, « Le rugby et la maîtrise du temps », ''Cahiers Raymond Abellio'', novembre 1983, p. 75-76 Beginning in 1974 he edited the ''Recherches avancées'' book series for

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Works

* with André Mahé ''La Fin du nihilisme'' - 1943 (signed under his actual name, Georges Soulès) *''Heureux les pacifiques'' - 1946 *''Les yeux d'Ézéchiel sont ouverts'' - 1949 * ''Vers un nouveau prophétisme : essai sur le rôle politique du sacré et la situation de Lucifer dans le monde moderne'' - 1950 * ''La Bible, document chiffré : essai sur la restitution des clefs de la science numérale secrète. Tome 1. Clefs générales'' - 1950 * ''La Bible, document chiffré : essai sur la restitution des clefs de la science numérale secrète. Tome 2. Les Séphiroth et les 5 premiers versets de la Genèse'' - 1950 * ''Assomption de l'Europe'' -1954 * with Paul Sérant ''Au seuil de l'ésotérisme : précédé de : l'Esprit moderne et la

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'' - 1955 *''La fosse de Babel'' - 1962 * ''La Structure absolue'' - 1965 * ''Hommages à

Robert Brasillach Robert Brasillach (; 31 March 1909 – 6 February 1945) was a French author and journalist. Brasillach was the editor of '' Je suis partout'', a nationalist newspaper which advocated fascist movements and supported Jacques Doriot. After the libera ...

'' - 1965 * '' Guénon, oui. Mais...'' in Planète n°15, April 1970 * ''La Fin de l'Ésotérisme'' - 1973 *''Sol Invictus'' - 1981 (winner of the Prix des Deux-Magots) * ''

Montségur Montségur (; Languedocien: ''Montsegur'') is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France. It is famous for its fortification, the Château de Montségur, that was built on the "pog" (mountain) on the ruins of one of the las ...

'' - 1982 * ''Visages immobiles'' - 1983 * ''Introduction à une théorie des nombres bibliques'' - 1984 * ''Manifeste de la nouvelle Gnose'' - 1989 (edited by Marie-Thérèse de Brosses and Charles Hirsch) * ''Fondements d'éthique'' - 1994

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abellio, Raymond 1907 births 1986 deaths Writers from Toulouse 20th-century French non-fiction writers 20th-century French male writers French collaborators with Nazi Germany French Army personnel of World War II Recipients of French presidential pardons French astrologers 20th-century astrologers French fascists French occultists Prix des Deux Magots winners Prix Sainte-Beuve winners 20th-century occultists French prisoners of war in World War II World War II prisoners of war held by Germany