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  • The real-life Gérard Encausse was a doctor and surgeon—taking the name Papus from a great physician in the works of Apollonius of Tyana—who died of tuberculosis contracted while serving in the medical corps on the front line in the First World War.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • The real-life Gérard Encausse was a doctor and surgeon—taking the name Papus from a great physician in the works of Apollonius of Tyana—who died of tuberculosis contracted while serving in the medical corps on the front line in the First World War.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • The real-life Gérard Encausse was a doctor and surgeon—taking the name Papus from a great physician in the works of Apollonius of Tyana—who died of tuberculosis contracted while serving in the medical corps on the front line in the First World War.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • A key figure in that heady and intense milieu was Dr. Gérard Encausse, known as Papus, whose immediate circle of like-minded friends included some surprises, such as the Nobel prize–winning physiologist Charles Richet, the astronomer Camille Flammarion, and Colonel Albert de Rochas, director of studies at the important École Polytechnique.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • A key figure in that heady and intense milieu was Dr. Gérard Encausse, known as Papus, whose immediate circle of like-minded friends included some surprises, such as the Nobel prize–winning physiologist Charles Richet, the astronomer Camille Flammarion, and Colonel Albert de Rochas, director of studies at the important École Polytechnique.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • A key figure in that heady and intense milieu was Dr. Gérard Encausse, known as Papus, whose immediate circle of like-minded friends included some surprises, such as the Nobel prize–winning physiologist Charles Richet, the astronomer Camille Flammarion, and Colonel Albert de Rochas, director of studies at the important École Polytechnique.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • The Order of Martinistes has never ceased to exist, and the President of the Suprême Conseil, Dr. Gérard Encausse, well known as "Papus," an avowed Cabalist, only died in 1916.

    Secret Societies And Subversive Movements Nesta H. Webster 1918

  • It is true that, by his vocation of novelist, he is suspected of inventing his facts, and Dr "Papus," president of the influential Martinist group in French occultism, states quite plainly that the doors of the mystic fraternities have been closed in his face, so that he can know nothing, and his opinions are consequently indifferent.

    Devil-Worship in France or The Question of Lucifer Arthur Edward Waite 1899

  • Disappointingly, Boullan seems to have died of natural causes, but equally inevitably the feud led to two flesh-and-blood duels, one between Guaïta and one of Boullan’s disciples, Jules Bois, and the other between the latter and one of the Rosicrucians, Gérard Encausse better known as Papus.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

  • Disappointingly, Boullan seems to have died of natural causes, but equally inevitably the feud led to two flesh-and-blood duels, one between Guaïta and one of Boullan’s disciples, Jules Bois, and the other between the latter and one of the Rosicrucians, Gérard Encausse better known as Papus.

    The Templar Revelation Lynn Picknett 2004

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