Occultism chronology
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OCCULTISM IN THE 19TH CENTURY -- A CHRONOLOGY is a chronology of the occult by Jeffery Howe
1774 Mesmer discovers "animal magnetism," or Mesmerism
1790 William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
1795 Francisco Goya, Witches' Sabbath
1808 Goethe, Faust, part I; French translation 1827
1820 William Blake's visionary portraits for John Varley (Ghost of a Flea)
1829 Samuel Palmer paints in his Valley of Vision in Shoreham, [see The Harvest Moon [1] ]
1832 Goethe, Faust, part II finished. Goethe dies.
1835 Honoré de Balzac, Seraphita
1842 Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton , Zanoni, a Rosicrucian Tale
1848 The Fox Sisters contact spirits through rapping; Spiritism Craze begins in Hydesville, N.Y.
1850 Allan Kardec (pseudonym for Hyppolyte Leon Denizard Rivail) commences career as Medium in Paris;
1855-1857 Victor Hugo creates spiritist drawings, conducts seances
1858 Victorien Sardou publishes automatic drawings of scenes on Jupiter (Mozart's house) in La Revue Spirite
1860 Eliphas Levi (pseudonym for A.L. Constant), History of Magic
1861 Allan Kardec, The Book on Mediums William H. Mumler publishes first spirit photographs (in Boston)
1862 Eliphas Levi, Fables et Symboles et leur explication
1874 William Crookes, Research in the Phenomena of Spiritualism
1875 Theosophical Society founded by H. P. Blavatsky & Col. Olcott in New York
1877 H.P. Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled
1882 Society for Psychical Research founded in London
1884 Peladan, Le Vice suprème French branch of Theosophical Society founded; again in 1887 as Societe d'Isis
1885 Carl du Prel, Philosophy of Mysticism
1886 Stanislaus de Guaita, Au Seuil du Mystere J.J. Tissot attends seances by William Eglinton to contact the late Mrs. Newton
1888 H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine W.B. Yeats joins the theosophists S. de Guaita founds Kabbalistic Order of Rose+Croix in Paris Papus (pseudonym for Gerard Encausse) founds journal L'Initiation (Paris) Papus, Traite elementaire des sciences occultes
1889 Edouard Schure, The Great Initiates P. Gauguin, Self-Portrait with Halo and Snake
1890 W.B. Yeats joins the Order of the Golden Dawn James Frazer, The Golden Bough Sar Josephin Peladan founds the Order ot the Catholic Rose+Croix, of the Temple and of the Grail (schism with Guaita) Paul Serusier, Portrait of Paul Ranson in Nabi Costume
1891 J.-K. Huysmans, La Bas (Down There)
1892 War of the Roses; occult battles in Paris involving Jules Bois, S. de Guaita, J. Peladan, Abbe Boullan Sar J. Peladan establishes Salons de la Rose+Croix in Paris; these continue until 1897
1890s Colonel de Rochas experiments with hypnotic regression to past lives
1895 August Strindberg, "Introduction a une chimie unitaire," Mercure de France; alchemical experiments; see his Inferno
1897 Bram Stoker, Dracula S. de Guaita, La Clef de la Magie Noir
1900 Fernand Khnopff erects an altar to Hypnos (date approximate)
1901 Annie Besant & C.W. Leadbeater, Thought Forms
1902 C.W. Leadbeater, Man Visible and Invisible
1908
Piet Mondrian joins the Theosophical Society in Amsterdam
(Wassily Kandinsky also a Theosophist)