Cosmic Philosophy is the name Max Theon

Max Theon

Max Théon perhaps born Louis-Maximilian Bimstein, was a Polish Jewish Kabbalist and Occultist. In London while still a young man, he inspired The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor in 1884, but seemed to have little to do with the day to day running of the organisation, or indeed its actual teachings...

 gave to the occult teachings given by his wife Alma Theon

Alma Theon

Alma Theon , born Mary Chrystine Woodroffe Ware , was an occultist and clairvoyant, and wife and co-worker of Max Theon....

 and himself. It is presented in the journal Cosmic Review

Cosmic Review

The Cosmic Review was the journal of the Cosmic Movement established by Max Theon around the turn of the twentieth century, at the instigation of his wife Alma Theon, who he declared to be the moving spirit behind this idea....

, the six volumes of the Cosmic Tradition

Cosmic Tradition

The Cosmic Tradition is a series of six volumes, and also a cosmological doctrine, authored by Max and Alma Theon around the turn of the 20th century. The books, four volumes of which are available on-line in French, tell a creation myth and the early history of the world, in an elaborate...

, and the Cosmic Movement

Cosmic Movement

The Cosmic Movement was the organisation established by Max Theon around 1900, in Tlemcen, Algeria, at the instigation of his wife Alma Theon, whom he declared to be the moving spirit behind the group. Its journal was the Cosmic Review...

 they established in the first decade of the twentieth century.

Apart from the Theons themselves, important contributors to the Cosmic Philosophy material included Charles Barlet, Victor-Emile Michelet, M. J. Benharoche-Baralia

M. J. Benharoche-Baralia

M. J. Benharoche-Baralia was a French occultist, author, and student of the Cosmic philosophy, although he never actually met Theon...

, and Pascal Themanlys

Pascal Themanlys

Pascal Themanlys was a French poet, Zionist, and Kabbalist. His books on Jewish mysticism have been published in French, English and Hebrew....

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Elements of the Cosmic Philosophy can also be found in the teachings of The Mother

Mirra Alfassa

-Early life:Mirra Alfassa was born in Paris in 1878, of a Turkish Jewish father, Maurice, and an Egyptian Jewish mother, Mathilde. She had an elder brother named Matteo. The family migrated to France the year before she was born. For the first eight years of her life she lived at 62 boulevard...

 of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, who, as Mirra Alfassa, was Theon's student in occultism, and involved in the Cosmic Movement. Some of Theon's terminology was also adopted by Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo

Sri Aurobindo , born Aurobindo Ghosh or Ghose , was an Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, guru, and poet. He joined the Indian movement for freedom from British rule and for a duration became one of its most important leaders, before developing his own vision of human progress...

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The Cosmic Philosophy claims to be the original spiritual Tradition, and describes an occult cosmology

Esoteric cosmology

Esoteric cosmology is cosmology that is an intrinsic part of an esoteric or occult system of thought. It almost always deals with at least some of the following themes: emanation, involution, spiritual evolution, epigenesis, planes of existence or higher worlds , hierarchies of spiritual beings,...

 that describes the various emanated planes of existence and cosmic cycles, including the sixth and the present, seventh, cycle, as well as describing the various occult

Occult

The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...

 powers of man

Human

Humans are the only living species in the Homo genus...

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External links

• Review Cosmique - Pascal Themanlys
  Pascal Themanlys
  Pascal Themanlys was a French poet, Zionist, and Kabbalist. His books on Jewish mysticism have been published in French, English and Hebrew....
  
  ' website, with a lot of material on the Theons and the Cosmic philosophy (in French
  French language
  French is a Romance language spoken as a first language in France, the Romandy region in Switzerland, Wallonia and Brussels in Belgium, Monaco, the regions of Quebec and Acadia in Canada, and by various communities elsewhere. Second-language speakers of French are distributed throughout many parts...
  
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• The Cosmic Philosophy (includes text by Pascal Themanlys in English)