Today is the birthday of Stanislas de Guaita (April 6, 1861 - December 19, 1897), poet. His poems were very widely celebrated and in 1883 were published as The Dark Muse and in 1885 as The Mystic Rose, both of which brought him acclaim and great popularity.
Stanislas de Guaita created the Cabalistic Order of the Rose Cross (Kabbalistique de la Rose Croix) in 1888, which brought together the most famous esoteric thinkers of France, and later all of Europe. (The Rosicrucian Order is a legendary and secretive Order that was first publicly documented in the early 1600s.) Stanislas de Guaita's Order of the Rose Cross provided training in the Kabbalah (Qabala(h) or Cabala), an esoteric form of Jewish mysticism, which attempts to reveal hidden mystical insights in the Hebrew Bible and divine nature. During his lifetime he collected the largest private library of writings on metaphysical subjects, magic, and hidden sciences that could be found in France.
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