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Initiating the Millennium: The Avignon Society and Illuminism in Europe (Oxford Studies in Western Esotericism),Used
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In Initiating the Millennium, Robert Collis and Natalie Bayer fill a substantial lacuna in the study of an initiatic societyknown variously as the Illumins d'Avignon, the Avignon Society, the New Israel Society, and the Unionthat flourished across Europe between 1779 and 1807. Based on hitherto neglected archival material, this study provides a wealth of fresh insights into a group that included members of various Christian confessions from countries spanning the length and breadth of the Continent. The founding members of this society forged a unique group that incorporated distinct strands of Western esotericism (particularly alchemy and arithmancy) within an allpervading millenarian worldview. Collis and Bayer demonstrate that the doctrine of premillennialismbelief in the imminent advent of Christ's reign on Earthsoon came to constitute the raison d'tre of the society.Using a chronological approach, the authors chart the machinations of the leading figures of the society (most notably the Polish gentleman Tadeusz Grabianka). They also examine the way in which the group reacted to and was impacted by the tumultuous events that rocked Europe during its twentyeight years of existence. The result is a new understanding of the vital role played by the socalled Union within the wider millenarian and illuministic milieu at the close of the eighteenth century and beginning of the nineteenth century.
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