The Cosmic Movement was the organisation established by
Max Théon
Max Théon (17 November 1848 – 4 March 1927) perhaps born Louis-Maximilian Bimstein, was a Polish Jewish Kabbalah, Kabbalist and Occultism, occultist. In London, he inspired The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor in 1884, but seemed to have litt ...
around 1900, in
Tlemcen
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,
Algeria
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, at the instigation of his wife
Alma Théon, whom he declared to be the moving spirit behind the group. Its journal was the ''
Cosmic Review''. Other publications included the ''
Cosmic Tradition'', and other works of the
Cosmic philosophy.
Among the most important of Théon's students at this time, who were involved in the Cosmic Movement, in Tlemcen and later in Paris, were
Charles Barlet,
Mirra Alfassa
Mirra Alfassa (21 February 1878 – 17 November 1973), known to her followers as The Mother or ''La Mère'', was a French-Indian spiritual guru, occultist and yoga teacher, and a collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, who considered her to be of ...
,
Paul Richard, and
Louis Themanlys.
According to
Pascal Themanlys, other active contributors of the Cosmic Movement included
Rene Caillie, the writer
Marc Semenoff, the typesetter
Jacques Janin, the painters
Jacques Blot and
Louis Bouchet, the architect
Louis Berthaud,
Maurice Ben Haroche, the
Baroness of Eichthal, among others.
Also interested in the cosmic work were
Tomáš Masaryk
Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (7 March 185014 September 1937) was a Czechoslovaks, Czechoslovak statesman, political activist and philosopher who served as the first List of presidents of Czechoslovakia, president of Czechoslovakia from 191 ...
(who became the first President of
Czechoslovakia
Czechoslovakia ( ; Czech language, Czech and , ''Česko-Slovensko'') was a landlocked country in Central Europe, created in 1918, when it declared its independence from Austria-Hungary. In 1938, after the Munich Agreement, the Sudetenland beca ...
), the poets
Helene Vacaresco and
Anna de Noailles
Anna, Comtesse Mathieu de Noailles (Anna Elisabeth Bibesco-Bassaraba de Brancovan; ; 15 November 1876 – 30 April 1933) was a French writer of Romanian, Greek and Bulgarian descent, a poet and a socialist feminist. She was the only female poet ...
, Dr
Serge Voronoff
Serge Abrahamovitch Voronoff (; c. July 10, 1866September 3, 1951) was a French surgeon of Russian origin who gained fame for his practice of xenotransplantation of monkey testicle tissues onto the testicles of men, purportedly as an anti-agin ...
, the occultist
Edouard Schure, the psychologist
Albert von Schrenck-Notzing
Albert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing (18 May 1862 – 12 February 1929) was a German physician, psychiatrist and notable psychical researcher, who devoted his time to the study of paranormal events connected with mediumship, hypnotism and telepa ...
, the Princess of Rohan in Vienna, the Hellenist
Mario Meunier, General
Zinovy Peshkov
Zinovy Alekseyevich Peshkov (, or ''Pechkov'', 16 October 1884 – 27 November 1966) was a Russian Empire, Russian-born France, French general and diplomat.
Early life
Born as Zalman or as Yeshua Zalman Sverdlov (in Russian: Zinovy Mikhai ...
, the Marchioness Ali Maccarani of Florence, and others.
External links
Le Mouvement Cosmiqueby
Pascal Themanlys (in
French
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)
Max Théon
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