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 Kabbalist and Occultist. In London while still a young man, he inspired The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor in 1884, but seemed to have ...
around 1900, in
Tlemcen
Tlemcen (; ar, تلمسان, translit=Tilimsān) is the second-largest city in northwestern Algeria after Oran, and capital of the Tlemcen Province. The city has developed leather, carpet, and textile industries, which it exports through the p ...
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Algeria
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, at the instigation of his wife
Alma Théon
Alma Théon (1843–1908), born Mary Chrystine Woodroffe Ware (or Miriam Lin Woodroffe), was an occultist and wife and co-worker of Max Théon.
According to Max Théon, his wife was the driving force behind the Cosmic movement or Cosmic Traditio ...
, 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, was a spiritual guru, occultist and yoga teacher, and a collaborator of Sri Aurobindo, who considered her to be of equal yogic stature to him and ...
,
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 Czechoslovak politician, statesman, sociologist, and philosopher. Until 1914, he advocated restructuring the Austro-Hungarian Empire into a federal state. With the help of ...
(who became the first President of
Czechoslovakia
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), the poets
Helene Vacaresco and
Anna de Noailles, Dr
Serge Voronoff, 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 tel ...
, the Princess of Rohan in Vienna, the Hellenist
Mario Meunier, General
Zinovy Peshkov, the Marchioness Ali Maccarani of Florence, and others.
External links
Le Mouvement Cosmiqueby
Pascal Themanlys (in
French)
Max Théon
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