Raymond Abellio
Raymond Abellio | |
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| Born | Georges Soulès 11 November 1907 Toulouse,France |
| Died | 26 August 1986(aged 78) Nice,France |
| Resting place | Cimetière d'Auteuil, Paris, France |
| Occupation | Novelist, essayist, philosopher |
| Education | École Polytechnique |
| Notable awards | Prix Sainte-Beuve(1946) Prix des Deux Magots(1980) |
Georges Soulès(11 November 1907 – 26 August 1986), known by hispen nameRaymond Abellio,was a French writer.[1]
Life
[edit]Abellio was born in Toulouse and attended courses at theÉcole Polytechnique.He later joined theX-Crise Group.[2]He advocatedfar-leftideas, but like many othertechnocrats,he joined theVichy regimeduring theSecond World Warand became in 1942 secretary general ofEugène Deloncle'sfar-rightMouvement Social Révolutionnaire(MSR) party.[3]He then participated inMarcel Déat's attempt of creating a unifiedCollaborationistparty. In April and September 1943 he participated in theDays of the Mont-Dore,an assembly of collaborationist personalities under the patronage ofPhilippe Pétain.[4]After theLiberation,he was sentenced to 20 years imprisonmentin absentiafor Collaborationism, and escaped toSwitzerland.However, he was pardoned in 1952 and went on to start a literary career.
Besides his literary career, under the influence ofPierre de Combas,he developed an interest inesoterism,and especiallyastrology.He was also interested in the possibility of a secret numerical code in theBible,a subject that he developed inLa Bible, document chiffréin 1950, and later inIntroduction à une théorie des nombres bibliques,in 1984. He proposed in particular that thenumber of the beast,666, was the key number of life, a manifestation of theholy trinityon all possible levels, material,animistandspiritual.He has also written on the philosophy ofrugby football.[5]
Beginning in 1974 he edited theRecherches avancéesbook series forFayard.
Works
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- withAndré MahéLa 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
- withPaul SérantAu seuil de l'ésotérisme: précédé de: l'Esprit moderne et latradition- 1955
- La fosse de Babel- 1962
- La Structure absolue- 1965
- Hommages àRobert Brasillach- 1965
- Guénon,oui. Mais...inPlanèten°15, April 1970
- La Fin de l'Ésotérisme- 1973
- Sol Invictus- 1981 (winner of thePrix des Deux-Magots)
- Montségur- 1982
- Visages immobiles- 1983
- Introduction à une théorie des nombres bibliques- 1984
- Manifeste de la nouvelleGnose- 1989 (edited byMarie-Thérèse de Brossesand Charles Hirsch)
- Fondements d'éthique- 1994
References
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- ^Keith Aspley(2010).Historical Dictionary of Surrealism.Scarecrow Press.ISBN9780810858473.Retrieved7 November2016.
- ^Mark Sedgwick erratum toAgainst the Modern WorldOxford University Press, 2004"Archived copy".Archivedfrom the original on 2009-04-05.Retrieved2008-05-17.
{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^Antonin Cohen,Vers la Révolution CommunautaireArchived2011-05-22 at theWayback Machine,Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporainen°51 (2004)
- ^R. ABELLIO, « Le rugby et la maîtrise du temps »,Cahiers Raymond Abellio,novembre 1983, p. 75-76
- 1907 births
- 1986 deaths
- Writers from Toulouse
- 20th-century French non-fiction writers
- 20th-century French male writers
- French Army personnel of World War II
- French prisoners of war in World War II
- Recipients of French presidential pardons
- French astrologers
- 20th-century astrologers
- French fascists
- French occultists
- Prix des Deux Magots winners
- 20th-century occultists
- People convicted of indignité nationale
- World War II prisoners of war held by Germany