Oswald Wirth ( FR. Oswald Wirth , August 5, 1860 - March 9, 1943 ) - French artist, occultist , one of the founders of the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose † Cross , creator of one of the occult decks of the Tarot , freemason . [one]
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| Birth name | Joseph Paul Oswald Wirth |
| Date of Birth | August 5, 1860 |
| Place of Birth | Brienz |
| Date of death | March 9, 1943 (82 years old) |
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Biography
Joseph Paul Oswald Wirth was born on August 5, 1860 at about 9 a.m. in Brienz , a small town in Switzerland, located on Lake Brienz . Wirth had three brothers: two died in infancy, and the third, Edward, was killed in battle in 1894 . Sister, Eliza, was born in 1875 , Oswald was her companion from youth until his death. [one]
He said that he owed everything to Stanislas de Guaite , who met him for the first time in the spring of 1887 , and who made him his secretary and friend. Oswald Wirth wrote about him:
(...) my acquaintance with Stanislas de Guaita was the main event for me. He made me his friend, his secretary and his co-worker. His library was at my disposal. Guaita bothered to form a style in me, to cut me literary (...)
In 1888, Papus , Saint-Yves D'Alveidre and Stanislas de Guaita , teamed up with Joseph Peladan and Oswald Wirth, founded the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose + Cross [2] .
Oswald Virtu belongs to a number of works that have become classics: Hermetic symbolism associated in his books and works with alchemy and Freemasonry [3] , astrological symbolism and, mainly, the tarot of medieval artists, in which he resumed the symbolic study of the main cards that he painted for Stanislas de Guaita . [one]
Oswald Wirth died on March 9, 1943 at 11 o’clock. He is buried in the cemetery of Mouterre-sur-Blourde in the south of Poitiers . [one]
Artwork
- Wirth O. Taro Mages. - M.: Bookplate, 2002. 228 p. ISBN 5-901620-41-0
- La Franc-Maçonnerie rendue intelligible à ses adeptes, tome 1: L'apprenti
- La Franc-Maçonnerie rendue intelligible à ses adeptes, tome 2: Le Compagnon
- La Franc-Maçonnerie rendue intelligible à ses adeptes, tome 3: Le Maître
In French
- Oswald Wirth - Le Symbolisme Hermétique, dans ses rapports avec la Franc-Maconnerie et l'Alchimie , 1910
- Oswald Wirth - Le Tarot des Imagiers du Moyen Age , 1924
- Oswald Wirth - I Tarocchi , Edizioni Mediterranee, 1975-2005 (con mazzo dei 22 Arcani)
- Oswald Wirth - Le symbolisme astrologique, Éd. Dervy
- Oswald Wirth - Les mystères de l'art royal - Rituel de l'adepte , Éd. Dervy
- Oswald Wirth - L'imposition des mains et la médecine philosophale , Éd. Guy trédanie
- Oswald Wirth - La Franc-Maçonnerie rendue intelligible à ses adeptes, trois tomes , Éd. Dervy
- Oswald Wirth - Le livre de Thot, comprenant les 22 arcanes du Tarot , (1889)
- Oswald Wirth - L'ideal initiatique (1923)
Bibliography
- Le Tarot des imagiers du moyen-âge , Éd. Tchou ISBN 978-2-7107-0728-8
- Le symbolisme hermétique dans ses rapports avec l'Alchimie et la Franc-maçonnerie , Éd. Dervy ISBN 978-2-85076-532-2
- Le symbolisme astrologique , Éd. Dervy ISBN 978-2-85076-506-3
- Les mystères de l'art royal - Rituel de l'adepte , Éd. Dervy ISBN 978-2-85076-968-9
- L'imposition des mains et la médecine philosophale , Éd. Guy Trédaniel ISBN 978-2-85707-007-8
- La Franc-maçonnerie rendue intelligible à ses adeptes , trois tomes, Éd. Dervy ISBN 978-2-85076-376-2 , ISBN 978-2-85076-500-1 , ISBN 978-2-85076-549-0
- Le livre de Thot comprenant les 22 arcanes du Tarot , (1889).
- L'ideal initiatique (1923) ( édition complétée en 1927 , Éd. Le Symbolisme, Paris)
- Le serpent Vert (Conte symbolique de Goethe traduit et commenté par Oswald Wirth , (1935), Éd. Dervy ISBN 978-2-84454-009-6
- Qui est régulier? Le pur maçonnisme sous le Régime des Grandes Loges inauguré en 1717 , (1938), Éd. Le Symbolisme, Paris
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 Oswald Wirth: Biographie
- ↑ Papus. Biography. | Famous Mystics | Publications | Australia Archived February 1, 2009 on Wayback Machine (unavailable link from 10-05-2013 [2287 days])
- ↑ Qui est régulier? Le pur maçonnisme sous le Régime des Grandes Loges inauguré en 1717, (1938), Éd. Le Symbolisme, Paris