Papus Books Catalog

Papus was the Spanish-born French physician, hypnotist, and popularizer of occultism, who founded the modern Martinist Order. Encausse's early readings in tarot and the lore of the Kabbalah in translation was inspired by the occult writings of Eliphas Levi, whose translation of the 'Nuctemeron of Apollonius of Tyana' printed as a supplement to Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1855), provided Encausse with his nom de plume: 'Papus' means 'physician.' In 1888, he co-founded his own group, the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose-Croix.