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    Gérard Anaclet Vincent Encausse (13 July 1865 – 25 October 1916), whose esoteric pseudonyms were Papus and Tau Vincent, was a French physician, hypnotist...
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    reorganized "Martinist Order" founded in 1886 by Augustin Chaboseau and Gérard Encausse (aka Papus). It was not used at the tradition's inception in the 18th...
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    Fabre d'Olivet (1767–1825) and, in turn, had his ideas adapted by Gérard Encausse alias Papus. His work on "L'Archéomètre" deeply influenced the young...
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    Yuga. The legend of Agartha remained mostly obscure in Europe until Gérard Encausse edited and re-published a detailed 1886 account by the nineteenth-century...
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    the first Martinist Order—Ordre des Supérieurs Inconnus—founded by Gérard Encausse (or better known as Papus), and has an emphasis on Christian Kabbalah...
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    Rosicrucian who later briefly joined the Martinist order led by Papus (Gérard Encausse). His father was a journalist who had written on prophecies, and professed...
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    other self-described "holy men" such as Nizier Anthelme Philippe and Gérard Encausse, who had previously been popular in Saint Petersburg. According to...
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    Agartha. He withdrew it from the print and it was released again by Gérard Encausse in 1910. John O. Greene's utopia The Ke Whonkus People (1890) describes...
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    psychologist; Abel Ayerza (1861–1918), Argentinian cardiologist; Gérard Encausse (1865–1916), physician; Maria Montessori (1870–1952), pioneer in education;...
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  • Canadian politician Gérard Edelinck (1640–1707), Flemish-born French copper-plate engraver and print publisher Gérard Encausse (1865-1916), Spanish-born...
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