Esotérisme et pseudo-sciences We have already... Lot 7130

Esotérisme et pseudo-sciences We have already touched on the relationship between science and esotericism (see Batch 7123); the quest for scientific legitimacy has, and indeed still does, animate the followers of esoteric practices. Let us take as an example Charles Lancelin (1852-1941), playwright and parapsychologist: he studied sleepwalking, hypnosis, reincarnation, and astral travel. He also relied on the work of Papus (see lot 7104) and Hippolyte Baraduc (1850-1909) to try to photograph the "invisible". A beautiful attempt to marry progress and positivism with the inexplicable. Lot including 6 books. - Claude BLOSSEVILLE The honey of the gods. The resurrection and the eternal life accessible by science? Antony, Bibliothèque Avenir de l'Homme, "L'Arc-en-ciel" n° 1, 1977 One volume in-8 paperback of 208 pages. Illustrated cover. Preface by Pierre-P. GRASSÉ. Signed letter from the author. Good condition. This work comes from another collector than Volguine. - Marcel BOLL Some captivating sciences. Human waves ? Collective delusions ? Marseille, Éditions du Sagittaire, 1941 Hypnotism Psychoanalysis Suggestion Metapsychology Astrology Spiritism Radiesthesia Paperback of 301 pages. Damage to the spine. Condition of use. - COSMIC TRADITION Exposé sur le mouvement cosmique autorisé par la Tradition Cosmique Paris, Cosmic Publications, 1906 One volume in-8 paperback of 61 pages. Pages not trimmed. Book very damaged at the spine, fragile brochure. Annotations. - Rodolphe-Raoul LENDVAI Infinity, eternity and divinity of man Paris, Presses Universitaires de France, 1926 Second expanded edition. Paperback. 60 pages. Book very damaged at the spine, fragile brochure. - Georges BARBARIN Is God a mathematician? or At the threshold of the forbidden door Paris, Éditions Astra, 1942 One volume in-8 paperback of 159 pages. A tear on the front cover, two smaller ones on the back. - Charles LANCELIN Some Aspects of the Hermetic Science. Volume I: Occultism and Science Paris, Éditions Jean Meyer, 1926 One volume in-8 paperback of 667 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of tables, frontispiece. Posterior binding. Good condition.