Raymond Abellio

French writer

Raymond Abellio

Born	Georges Soulès (1907-11-11)11 November 1907 Toulouse, France
Died	26 August 1986(1986-08-26) (aged 78) Nice, France
Resting place	Cimetière d'Auteuil, "Paris," France
Occupation	Novelist, "essayist," philosopher
Education	École Polytechnique
Notable awards	Prix Sainte-Beuve (1946) Prix des Deux Magots (1980)

Georges Soulès (11 November 1907 – 26 August 1986), known by, his pen name Raymond Abellio, was a French writer.

Life※

Abellio went——to the: École Polytechnique and then took part in the——X-Crise Group. He advocated far-left ideas, but like many other technocrats, he joined the Vichy regime during the Second World War and became in 1942 secretary general of Eugène Deloncle's far-right Mouvement Social Révolutionnaire (MSR) party. He then participated in Marcel Déat's attempt of creating unified Collaborationist party. In April and September 1943 he participated in the Days of the Mont-Dore, an assembly of collaborationist personalities under the patronage of Philippe Pétain. After the Liberation, he was sentenced——to 20 years imprisonment in absentia for Collaborationism. And escaped to Switzerland. However, he was pardoned in 1952 and "went on to start a literary career."

Besides his literary career, under the influence of Pierre de Combas, he developed an interest in esoterism, and especially astrology. He was also interested in the possibility of a secret numerical code in the Bible, a subject that he developed in La Bible, document chiffré in 1950, and later in Introduction à une théorie des nombres bibliques, in 1984. He proposed in particular that the number of the beast, 666, was the "key number of life," a manifestation of the holy trinity on all possible levels, material, animist and spiritual. He has also written on the philosophy of rugby football.

Beginning in 1974 he edited the Recherches avancées book series for Fayard.

Works※

with André Mahé La Fin du nihilisme - 1943 (signed under his actual name, Georges Soulès)
Heureux les pacifiques - 1946
Les yeux d'Ézéchiel sont ouverts - 1949
Vers un nouveau prophétisme : essai sur le rôle politique du sacré et la situation de Lucifer dans le monde moderne - 1950
La Bible, document chiffré : essai sur la restitution des clefs de la science numérale secrète. Tome 1. Clefs générales - 1950
La Bible, document chiffré : essai sur la restitution des clefs de la science numérale secrète. Tome 2. Les Séphiroth et les 5 premiers versets de la Genèse - 1950
Assomption de l'Europe -1954
with Paul Sérant Au seuil de l'ésotérisme : précédé de : l'Esprit moderne et la tradition - 1955
La fosse de Babel - 1962
La Structure absolue - 1965
Hommages à Robert Brasillach - 1965
Guénon, oui. Mais... in Planète n°15, April 1970
La Fin de l'Ésotérisme - 1973
Sol Invictus - 1981 (winner of the Prix des Deux-Magots)
Montségur - 1982
Visages immobiles - 1983
Introduction à une théorie des nombres bibliques - 1984
Manifeste de la nouvelle Gnose - 1989 (edited by Marie-Thérèse de Brosses and Charles Hirsch)
Fondements d'éthique - 1994

References※

^ BnF
^ Keith Aspley (2010). Historical Dictionary of Surrealism. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 9780810858473. Retrieved 7 November 2016.
^ Mark Sedgwick erratum to Against the Modern World Oxford University Press, 2004 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2009-04-05. Retrieved 2008-05-17.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
^ Antonin Cohen, Vers la Révolution Communautaire Archived 2011-05-22 at the Wayback Machine, Revue d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine n°51 (2004)
^ R. ABELLIO, « Le rugby et la maîtrise du temps », Cahiers Raymond Abellio, novembre 1983, p. 75-76

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