Poinsot: 11 books

It follows from this phenomenon (tested hundreds of times) that every thing may carry around it an invisibly written history. The same thing applies to the human being. Every one of us carries around him a radiance invisible to the human eye, but perceptible to the trained mind. Inscribed in this...

Occult science is the systematic research into or formulation of occult concepts in a manner that follows - in its method or presentation - the way natural science researches or describes phenomena of the physical world.

It follows from this phenomenon (tested hundreds of times) that every thing may carry around it an invisibly written history. The same thing applies to the human being. Every one of us carries around him a radiance invisible to the human eye, but perceptible to the trained mind. Inscribed in this...

It follows from this phenomenon (tested hundreds of times) that every thing may carry around it an invisibly written history. The same thing applies to the human being. Every one of us carries around him a radiance invisible to the human eye, but perceptible to the trained mind. Inscribed in this...

Physiognomony is not only the study of a being through its physiognomy, as the layman believes, although the etymology is clear (physis—nature ; gnomon—who knows), but really the study of a being through the whole of its outward appearance ; from which it would seem to follow that Chiromancy is...

Speak of Cartomancy in a company, I will not say favourably, but merely sincere and without prejudice. First of all of ten persons eight will confess that they have consulted— secretly—card readers, and six at least will tell you that they have been surprised at the correctness of what was foretold...

It is because his work has been that of popularising and not of creating (according to his account at least) that the author has desired to remain anonymous, and straightway I congratulate him on having so well succeeded with this vade-mecum which the scholar, the woman of the world, the man in the...

Chiromancy is, for the Occultist, the astral sign-manual contained in the hand. But it is not necessary to believe in Astrology tn order to believe in Chiromancy. In the same way as Chouasnard wants to arrive at a scientific Astrology, so Henri Rem wants, and he NII vs it himself, to “disoccult...

Avec Controverse cubaine entre le tabac et le sucre, Don Fernando Ortiz offre le grand livre de Cuba publié pour la première fois en français. Il a parfois été salué comme un pionnier des études africanistes, mais il a été plus que ça : il a été le Maître. Plus qu’un grand homme de...

Avec un chômage record, les Français, dans leur globalité, exigent des résultats rapides de leurs nouveaux dirigeants. S'ils ne viennent pas, que faire ? Patienter ou se radicaliser ? Aux élections, s'abstenir ou se laisser séduire par des démagogues ou des populistes ? N'existe-t-il donc pas...

Lire la littérature baroque haïtienne peut s'avérer difficile pour un lecteur qui doit affronter des textes foisonnants qui le contraignent souvent à devoir les déconstruire pour mieux en percevoir la structure et le fonctionnement. Il lui faut donc se lancer à l'assaut d'oeuvres protéiformes...