The Magickal Rosicrucian War of the 1890's

On the night of 4 January 1893, Joseph-Antoine Boullan was beaten by the invisible hands of fearsome hidden forces. He wrote about his presentiments to the author Joris-Karl Huysmans, who had just finished his book "Là-Bas", which was something like a history of satanism...

The mysterious death of Abbé Boullan was the occasion for a lively polemic between writers and occultists: Jules Bois and J.K. Huysmans on the one hand, Stanislas de Guaita on the other. Jules Bois formally accused Guaita and his colleagues of the Rose-Croix that they had bewitched Father Boullan. In Gil Blas of 9 January 1893 he published an article, stating he felt it to be his duty to recount the facts in this case: the strange attacks of Boullan directed by the Rosicrucians and the prophetic visions of Mrs. Thibault.

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The War of the Magicians

Awesome. Reminds me of occult stories of shamans being the greatest assassins because they can use astral projection to kill their target while they sleep. Now that's not somebody that I would want to piss off.