R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

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René Adolphe Schwaller de Lubicz
Born René Adolphe Schwaller
December 7, 1887(1887-12-07)
Died 1961 (51)
Nationality French
Known for Mystic Egyptology, Numerology, Esotericism
Spouse Isha Schwaller de Lubicz
Children Lucy Lamy, adopted daughter

René Adolphe Schwaller de Lubicz (1887 – 1961), born René Adolphe Schwaller in Alsace-Lorraine, was a French occultist and student of sacred geometry known for his 15-year study of the art and architecture of the Temple of Luxor in Egypt and his subsequent book The Temple In Man. [1]

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[edit] Early life

René Schwaller left home at the age of eighteen after having completed an apprenticeship with his father in pharmaceutical chemistry. Moving to Paris from Alsace to study modern chemistry and physics, he developed an interest in Alchemy, reading every alchemical text he could find including those by Paracelsus and Raymond Lull. He also developed an interest in painting and became the student of Matisse.[2]

He was given the title "de Lubicz" in 1919 by the Lithuanian writer, mystic and diplomat Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz.[3]

He also wrote under the mystical name 'Aor' [4] [5], signifying "Light of the Higher Mind".[6]

He became a student of Theosophy and Saint Yves d'Alveydre's Synarchy.

[edit] Les Veilleurs

Scwaller de Lubicz was the founder in 1919, with other members of the Theosophical Society, of the esoteric right-wing French group called Affranchis, that published a journal L'Affranchi-Hiérarchie, Fraternité, Liberté, a monthly journal of art and philosophy, dealing with a spiritual and social renewal within the framework of a mystical political philosophy. Its president was René Bruyez. On 23 July 1919 the group dissolved and another group was formed in its place: Les Veilleurs ("the Vigilants"), to which allegedly the young Rudolf Hess belonged (according to the historian Pierre Mariel). Its uniform consisted of a dark shirt, high-boots and riding-breeches, akin to the Sturmabteilung.[7][8][9][10]

Les Veilleurs delivered its manifesto in December 1919, its politics conveyed through a series of letters called "Appeals" and signed by its members. The letter signed by "Aor" was addressed "To the Jews", where he advised all Jews to "go back home". The first issue of its journal, Veilleur, contained an anonymous anti-semitic article that first appeared in a Masonic journal from 1898.

The artist André VandenBroeck in his memoirs and biography of Schwaller de Lubicz described him as anti-semitic, [11] and Joscelyn Godwin commented "Schwaller de Lubicz was not sufficiently vindictive to persist in the course of action followed by Hess and Hitler, but nor was he sufficiently humane, it would seem, to regret his contribution to the currents of the time.[12]

[edit] Suhalia

During the 1920s with his wife Isha, Schwaller de Lubicz established in Switzerland the Station Scientifique Suhalia, a research centre consisting of "laboratories for physics, chemistry, micro-photography and the manufacture of homeopathic tinctures was set up, along with an astronomical observatory, a machine shop, workshops for woodworking, blacksmithing, printing, weaving, rugmaking and glassmaking and a theater." [13]

While there, Schwaller de Lubicz brought to a total whole his philosophical vision and in 1926 published his book L'Appel du Feu, where his "inspiration and higher intelligence is personified as 'Aor' (Hebrew for 'intellectual light')." Suhalia became the location where he began to "elaborate his philosophy of the evolution of consciousness." [14]

[edit] Egypt

In his chief work, The Temple In Man (1949), he proposes, and argues in great detail, for an interpretation of the Egyptian outlook rooted in numerology and sacred geometry; in several of his other works, he makes a corresponding case for the metaphysical richness of various mathematical concepts. As with much ancient mathematics, the Egyptian research of Schwaller de Lubicz became quite complex. The complexity of his various ancient mathematical concepts as covered in his book provided an ongoing source of debate amongst mystics.

His elucidation of the Temple of Luxor and his presentation of the Egyptian understanding of a special quality of innate consciousness form a bridge that attempts to link the sacred science of the Ancients, to its modern rediscovery in our own time.

[edit] Legacy

His arguments are controversial today among mainstream Egyptologists and contradictory to the thrust of mainstream anthropological and archaeological understanding. He is viewed by devotees and alternative Egyptologists (inaccurately) as both a philosopher and mathematician.[15] His work is not widely accepted by Greek and Roman schools of thought.

Many adherents of Gurdjieff's Fourth Way find parallels in de Lubicz's writings.[16] He has been an inspiration to authors like John Anthony West and Naomi Ozaniec. [17]

[edit] Works

  • Études sur les Nombres (Aor publications, 1917). English translation entitled A Study of Numbers: A Guide To The constant creation of The Universe (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International, 1986). ISBN 0892811129
  • L'appel du feu (Saint-Moritz: "Montalia", 1926). Facsimile reprint, Deuil-la-Barre: MCOR-la Table d'émeraude, 2002. ISBN 2-914946-00-7
  • Adam l'homme rouge: ou les elements d'une gnose pour le mariage parfait (H. Le Soudier, 1926). Reprint Le Bord de la Vie, 2009. ISBN 2918062049
  • Le Temple dans l'homme (Le Caire, Impr. de Schindler, 1949). English translation entitled The Temple In Man: The Secrets of Ancient Egypt (Brookline: Autumn Press, 1977). ISBN 0394420799. Published in 1981 by Inner Traditions entitled The Temple In Man: Sacred Architecture and The Perfect Man. ISBN 0-89281-021-1.
  • Du symbol et de la symbolique (published privately in 1951. Paris: Dervy, 1978). English translation entitled Symbol And The Symbolic: Egypt, Science, and The Evolution of Consciousness (Brookline, Massachusetts: Autumn Press, 1978). ISBN 0394735137
  • Le Temple de l'homme, Apet du Sud à Louqsor (Paris: Caractères, 1957). English translation entitled The Temple of Man: Apet of The South at Luxor (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 1998). ISBN 0892815701
  • Propos Sur Ésotérisme et Symbole (Paris: La Colombe, 1960).
  • Le Roi de la Théocratie Pharaonique (Paris: Flammarion, 1961, originally published privately in 1958). English translation entitled Sacred Science: The King of Pharaonic Theocracy (New York: Inner Traditions International, 1982). ISBN 0892810076
  • Le Miracle Égyptien, présenté par Isha Schwaller de Lubicz (Paris: Flammarion, 1963). English translation entitled The Egyptian Miracle: An Introduction To The Wisdom of The Temple (New York: Inner Traditions International, 1985). ISBN 0892810084
  • Les Temples de Karnak: contribution à l’étude de la Pensée Pharaonique (Paris: Dervy-Livres, 1982). ISBN 2-85076-153-2. English translation entitled The Temples of Karnak (London: Thames & Hudson, 1999). ISBN 0500019231
  • Nature Word (The Lindisfarne Press, 1982). ISBN 0-940262-00-2. Originally published entitled Verbe Nature contained in Isha Schwaller de Lubicz, “Aor”: R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz. Sa vie. Son œuvre. (La Colombe, Éditions du Vieux Colombier, Paris, 1963).

[edit] Using the name Aor

  • La Doctrine: trois conférences faites à Suhalia, Noël 1926 (l'éditions de St Moritz, Officina Montalia, 1927). Facsimile reprint, Paris: Axis Mundi, 1988. ISBN 2-905967-03-X.

[edit] Bibliography

  • Erik Sablé, La vie et l'œuvre de René Schwaller de Lubicz (Éditions Dervy, Paris, 2003). ISBN 2-84454-173-9
  • Emmanuel Dufour-Kowalski (editor), Dossier Schwaller de Lubicz: L'œuvre au Rouge (Éditions L'Âge d'Homme, 2006). ISBN 2-8251-3681-6
  • Emmanuel Dufour-Kowalski (editor), La Quête Alchimique de R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz: Conferences (1913-1956) (Archè: Milan, 2006). ISBN 978-8872522776
  • Joscelyn Godwin, "Schwaller de Lubicz: les Veilleurs et la connexion Nazie", in Politica Hermetica, number 5, pages 101-108 (Éditions L'Âge d'Homme, 1991).
  • Joscelyn Godwin, Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1996). ISBN 0-932813-35-6
  • Isha Schwaller de Lubicz, “Aor”: R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz. Sa vie. Son œuvre. (La Colombe, Éditions du Vieux Colombier, Paris, 1963).
  • Andre Vandenbroeck, Al-Kemi: A Memoir: Hermetic, Occult, Political, and Private Aspects of R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz (Lindisfarne Books, 1990). ISBN 0-940262-31-2

[edit] References

  1. ^ R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temple In Man: Sacred Architecture and The Perfect Man (Inner Traditions paperback, 1981). ISBN 0-89281-021-1
  2. ^ Robert Lawlor, Translator's Preface to The Temple In Man.
  3. ^ Malkowski, Edward (2007). Spiritual Technology of Ancient Egypt: Sacred Science and the Mystery of Consciousness. Deep Books. ISBN 1594771863. 
  4. ^ Vandenbroeck, Andre (1905). Al-Kemi: Hermetic, Occult, Political and Private Aspects of R.A.Schwaller De Lubicz. Lindisfarne. ISBN 978-0940262317. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wg2nYIYpLAEC&pg=PA212&dq=%22Schwaller+de+Lubicz%22++name+%22Aor%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=n5P9TvKtJ4208QO2gOnTAQ&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22Schwaller%20de%20Lubicz%22%20%20name%20%22Aor%22&f=false. 
  5. ^ The Quest (Theosophical Society in America) 88. 2000. 
  6. ^ Robert Lawlor, Translator's Preface to The Temple In Man.
  7. ^ Joscelyn Godwin, "Schwaller de Lubicz: les Veilleurs et la connexion Nazie", in Politica Hermetica, number 5, pages 101-108 (Éditions L'Âge d'Homme, 1991).
  8. ^ Greer, John Michael (2003). The new encyclopedia of the occult. Llewellyn Worldwide. p. 501. ISBN 978-1567183368. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=xAmMNnJlfnoC&pg=PA501&dq=R.+A.+Schwaller+de+Lubicz+les+veilleurs&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Sq8OT-3fDMuFhQfBv-iTAg&ved=0CEIQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=R.%20A.%20Schwaller%20de%20Lubicz%20les%20veilleurs&f=false. 
  9. ^ Sally MacDonald & Michael Rice, ed. (2003). Consuming Ancient Egypt. UCL Press. p. 181. ISBN 978-1844720033. 
  10. ^ Joscelyn Godwin, Arktos: The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival, pages 54-55 (Adventures Unlimited Press, 1996). ISBN 0-932813-35-6. For Hess being a member of Les Veilleurs, Godwin cited Pierre Mariel, L'Europe païenne du XXe siècle, magie noire en Angleterre, tziganes, gitans et romanichels, l'Allemagne païenne (Paris, Genève: la Palatine, 1964).
  11. ^ André VandenBroeck, Al-Kemi: Hermetic, Occult, Political and Private Aspects of R.A.Schwaller De Lubicz
  12. ^ Joscelyn Godwin, "Schwaller de Lubicz: les Veilleurs et la connexion Nazie".
  13. ^ Deborah Lawlor, "R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz and Nature Word", in R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, Nature Word, page 52 (The Lindisfarne Press, 1982). ISBN 0-940262-00-2
  14. ^ Deborah Lawlor, page 63.
  15. ^ Sally MacDonald & Michael Rice, ed. (2003). Consuming Ancient Egypt. UCL Press. p. 181. ISBN 978-1844720033. 
  16. ^ The Quest, volume 6 (Theosophical Society In America, 1993).
  17. ^ Dominic Montserrat, Akhenaten: History, Fantasy and Ancient Egypt, page 196, note 34 (Routledge, 2000). ISBN 0-415-18549-1

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