The Cosmic Movement was the organisation established by Max Theon

Max Theon

Max Théon 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 little to do with the day to day running of the organisation, or indeed its actual teachings...

 around 1900, in Tlemcen

Tlemcen

Tlemcen is a town in Northwestern Algeria, and the capital of the province of the same name. It is located inland in the center of a region known for its olive plantations and vineyards...

, Algeria

Algeria

Algeria , officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria , also formally referred to as the Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of Northwest Africa with Algiers as its capital.In terms of land area, it is the largest country in Africa and the Arab...

, at the instigation of his wife Alma Theon

Alma Theon

Alma Theon , born Mary Chrystine Woodroffe Ware , was an occultist and clairvoyant, and wife and co-worker of Max Theon....

, whom he declared to be the moving spirit behind the group. Its journal was the Cosmic Review

Cosmic Review

The Cosmic Review was the journal of the Cosmic Movement established by Max Theon around the turn of the twentieth century, at the instigation of his wife Alma Theon, who he declared to be the moving spirit behind this idea....

. Other publications included the Cosmic Tradition

Cosmic Tradition

The Cosmic Tradition is a series of six volumes, and also a cosmological doctrine, authored by Max and Alma Theon around the turn of the 20th century. The books, four volumes of which are available on-line in French, tell a creation myth and the early history of the world, in an elaborate...

, and other works of the Cosmic philosophy

Cosmic philosophy

Cosmic Philosophy is the name Max Theon gave to the occult teachings given by his wife Alma Theon and himself. It is presented in the journal Cosmic Review, the six volumes of the Cosmic Tradition, and the Cosmic Movement they established in the first decade of the twentieth century.Apart from...

.

Among the most important of Theon'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

-Early life:Mirra Alfassa was born in Paris in 1878, of a Turkish Jewish father, Maurice, and an Egyptian Jewish mother, Mathilde. She had an elder brother named Matteo. The family migrated to France the year before she was born. For the first eight years of her life she lived at 62 boulevard...

, Paul Richard

Paul Richard

Paul Richard was the Mayor of New York from 1735 to 1739....

, and Louis Themanlys.

According to Pascal Themanyls, 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 Masaryk

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk , sometimes called Thomas Masaryk in English, was an Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, sociologist and philosopher, who as an eager advocate of Czechoslovak independence during World War I became the founder and first President of Czechoslovakia, also was...

 (who became the first President of Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia

Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia was a sovereign state in Central Europe which existed from October 1918, when it declared its independence from the Austro-Hungarian Empire, until 1992...

), the poets Helene Vacaresco and Anna de Noailles, Dr Serge Voronoff

Serge Voronoff

Serge Abrahamovitch Voronoff was a French surgeon of Russian extraction who gained fame for his technique of grafting monkey testicle tissue on to the testicles of men for purportedly therapeutic purposes while working in France in the 1920s and 1930s. The technique brought him a great deal of...

, the occultist Edouard Schure

Édouard Schuré

Eduard Schuré was a French philosopher, poet, playwright, novelist, music critic, and publicist of esoteric literature.- Biography :...

, the psychologist Albert von Schrenck-Notzing

Albert von Schrenck-Notzing

Albert Freiherr von Schrenck-Notzing was a German physician, psychiatrist and notable psychic researcher, who devoted his time to the study of paranormal events connected with mediumship, hypnotism and telepathy...

, the Princess of Rohan in Vienna, the Hellenist Mario Meunier, General Zinovy Peshkov

Zinovy Peshkov

Zinovy Alekseyevich Peshkov was a Russian-born French general and diplomat.-Early life:Born Yeshua Zalman Sverdlov to a Jewish engraver in Nizhny Novgorod, he was an older brother of Yakov Sverdlov...

, the Marchioness Ali Maccarani of Florence, and others.

External links

• Le Mouvement Cosmique by Pascal Themanlys
  Pascal Themanlys
  Pascal Themanlys was a French poet, Zionist, and Kabbalist. His books on Jewish mysticism have been published in French, English and Hebrew....
  
   (in French
  French language
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