Schwaller de Lubicz (click to enlarge)
René Schwaller left home at the age of eighteen after having completed an apprenticeship with his father in pharmaceutical chemistry. Moving to Paris from Alsace to study modern chemistry and physics, he developed an interest in Alchemy, reading every alchemical text he could find including those by Paracelsus and Ramon Llull. He also developed an interest in painting and became the student of Matisse.
He was given the title "de Lubicz" in 1919 by the Lithuanian writer, mystic and diplomat Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz.
He also wrote under the mystical name 'Aor', signifying "Light of the Higher Mind".
He became a student of Theosophy and Saint Yves d'Alveydre's Synarchy. Wikipedia, R._A._Schwaller_de_Lubicz
Books • The Temple In Man: Sacred Architecture and The Perfect Man (Inner Traditions paperback, 1981). ISBN 0-89281-021-1 • Études sur les Nombres (Aor publications, 1917). English translation titled A Study of Numbers: A Guide To The constant creation of The Universe (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International, 1986). ISBN 0-89281-112-9 Without direct awareness of Space and Time, human beings lack two `senses` necessary for the knowledge of all causes. Starting from the irreducible one, Schwaller deals with the unfolding of creation through the cycles of polarization, ideation, and formation. This is a masterly account of the living, universal, qualitative, and causal reality of numbers. • L'appel du feu (Saint-Moritz: "Montalia", 1926). Facsimile reprint, Deuil-la-Barre: MCOR-la Table d'émeraude, 2002. ISBN 2-914946-00-7 • Adam l'homme rouge: ou les elements d'une gnose pour le mariage parfait (Montalia's Editions,St.-Moritz, 1926). Reprint Slatkine Editions,Geneva, 2014,with an introduction from Emmanuel Dufour-Kowalski as a contribution to schwallerian's studies, ISBN 978-2-05-102608-6 • Le Temple dans l'homme (Le Caire, Impr. de Schindler, 1949). English translation titled The Temple In Man: The Secrets of Ancient Egypt (Brookline: Autumn Press, 1977). ISBN 0-394-42079-9. Published in 1981 by Inner Traditions titled The Temple In Man: Sacred Architecture and The Perfect Man. ISBN 0-89281-021-1. • Du symbol et de la symbolique (published privately in 1951. Paris: Dervy, 1978). English translation titled Symbol And The Symbolic: Egypt, Science, and The Evolution of Consciousness (Brookline, Massachusetts: Autumn Press, 1978). ISBN 0-394-73513-7 Symbolism is the intuitive means of overcoming the limitations of reason. Here Schwaller explains how true progress in human thought can be made only if we call upon the quot;symbolizingquot; faculty of intelligence, developed and refined in the temple culture of ancient Egypt and reflected in its hieroglyphs. • Le Temple de l'homme, Apet du Sud à Louqsor (Paris: Caractères, 1957). English translation titled The Temple in Man: Apet of The South at Luxor (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions, 1998). ISBN 0-89281-570-1 • Propos Sur Ésotérisme et Symbole (Paris: La Colombe, 1960). English translation titled Esoterism and Symbol This is an initiation into the tone, structure, and mentality of Egyptian knowledge, the basis of all Western theology and science. It is a redefinition of those concepts which are basic to the pharaonic transmission--the glory of ancient Egypt. The author explores the `process of becoming` as related to consciousness and revealed in nature; the kinship between man and the mineral, plant and animal kingdoms;... • Le Roi de la Théocratie Pharaonique (Paris: Flammarion, 1961, originally published privately in 1958). English translation titled Sacred Science: The King of Pharaonic Theocracy (New York: Inner Traditions International, 1982). ISBN 0-89281-007-6 • Le Miracle Égyptien, présenté par Isha Schwaller de Lubicz (Paris: Flammarion, 1963). English translation titled The Egyptian Miracle: An Introduction To The Wisdom of The Temple (New York: Inner Traditions International, 1985). ISBN 0-89281-008-4 • Les Temples de Karnak: contribution à l’étude de la Pensée Pharaonique (Paris: Dervy-Livres, 1982). ISBN 2-85076-153-2. English translation titled The Temples of Karnak (London: Thames & Hudson, 1999). ISBN 0-500-01923-1 • Nature Word (The Lindisfarne Press, 1982). ISBN 0-940262-00-2. Originally published titled Verbe Nature contained in Isha Schwaller de Lubicz, “Aor”: R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz. Sa vie. Son œuvre. (La Colombe, Éditions du Vieux Colombier, Paris, 1963).