The Polaire Brotherhood (La Fraternité polaire) in Belgrade

The Polaire Brotherhood (La Fraternité polaire) was an occult society active in interwar Paris. Some of the important names of the French occult scene of the period were among its members. According to the reports in the bulletin of the society, there was also a branch operating in Belgrade in the 1...

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1. VerfasserIn: Radulović, Nemanja (VerfasserIn)
Medienart: Elektronisch Aufsatz
Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Brill 2023
In: Aries
Jahr: 2023, Band: 23, Heft: 1, Seiten: 84-105
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Atanasijević, Ksenija 1894-1981 / Serbia / Paris / Fraternité polaires / Occultism / History 1930-1943
RelBib Classification:AZ Neue Religionen
KBG Frankreich
KBK Osteuropa
TK Neueste Zeit
weitere Schlagwörter:B Theosophy
B Yugoslavia
B French occultism
B Spiritism
B Oracle
B Serbia
B interwar period
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Zusammenfassung:The Polaire Brotherhood (La Fraternité polaire) was an occult society active in interwar Paris. Some of the important names of the French occult scene of the period were among its members. According to the reports in the bulletin of the society, there was also a branch operating in Belgrade in the 1930s. However, this has not previously been confirmed. Archive materials used for this paper attest to the existence of the Belgrade group for the first time. Its most important figure was Ksenija Atanasijević (1894–1981), a prominent philosopher. Therefore, attention is also paid to her involvement with Theosophy and co-masonry and the place of esotericism in her work. The activity of the group reminded of the Theosophical—it included meetings, lectures and meditations. They were also familiar with The Oracle of Astral Force (the Fraternité’s key method). The existence of a branch of the French brotherhood in this period can be understood in the context of the French-Serbian cultural relations. This interest in the “alternative” helps us get a better understanding of the history of Serbian intellectuals.
ISSN:1570-0593
Enthält:Enthalten in: Aries
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/15700593-02301005