Jesus, The Last Great Initiate Annotated

by Edouard Schurï

Overview

An esoteric take on the life of an Essene Jesus, considered as the last of a line of hidden initiates.
Schure viewed Christ as both an historical individual, and as a manifestation of the divine in the human realm.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788418373015
Publisher:	Delfos
Publication date:	05/01/2020
Series:	Hermetic Tradition , #3
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Édouard Schuré (1841–1929), a French philosopher, poet, playwright, novelist, music critic, and publicist of esoteric literature, mastered French as well as German, and was influenced by German and French culture in his formative years. He received his degree in law at the University of Strasbourg, but he never entered into practice. Schuré turned increasingly to the esoteric and the occult, his major influence being the famous French occultist-scholar Fabre d'Olivet. In 1884, he met the founder of the Theo- sophical Society Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Although unwelcome in the Theosophical Socie- ty, he nevertheless entered. In 1889, he published, after some smaller works on similar topics, his major work Les Grands Initiés (The Great Initiates). At the German Section of the Theosophical Society, he met the Austrian philosopher and later founder of Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner. Schuré was deeply impressed and thought of Steiner as an authentic 'initiate' in line with his The Great Initiates.