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Working with Nodier through the mass of uncatalogued material opened up a new level of interest in the occult, although it did not manifest for years. Meanwhile, he served in the French army in Algiers from 1843–44 and wrote several historical texts. His most important were ''History of the Terrors'' (1853) and the multi-volume ''Heroes of [[Christianity]]'' (1853–1857). A hint of his future work in esoteric studies appeared in 1844 with his ''Stories of the Marvelous from All Times and Lands''. | Working with Nodier through the mass of uncatalogued material opened up a new level of interest in the occult, although it did not manifest for years. Meanwhile, he served in the French army in Algiers from 1843–44 and wrote several historical texts. His most important were ''History of the Terrors'' (1853) and the multi-volume ''Heroes of [[Christianity]]'' (1853–1857). A hint of his future work in esoteric studies appeared in 1844 with his ''Stories of the Marvelous from All Times and Lands''. | ||
Pitois had read about occultism and developed a strong anticlerical stance. During his life, many Eastern texts had been translated into French, as had the works of Emanuel Swedenborg. In 1859 Pitois turned his attention to writing ''Historie de la Magie, du monde Surnaturel et de la fatalité à travers les Temps et les Peuples'' (1870) (''History of Magic, the Supernatural World and Fate, through Times and Peoples''). Carefully written so as not to offend his largely Catholic audience, it immediately became popular public reading. It surveyed the whole of the occult, explaining each element, and provided a history of occult practice in the West from ancient times. | ==''History of Magic''== | ||
Pitois had read about occultism and developed a strong anticlerical stance. During his life, many Eastern texts had been translated into French, as had the works of Emanuel Swedenborg. In 1859 Pitois turned his attention to writing ''Historie de la Magie, du monde Surnaturel et de la fatalité à travers les Temps et les Peuples'' (1870) (''History of Magic, the Supernatural World and Fate, through Times and Peoples''). | |||
Carefully written so as not to offend his largely Catholic audience, it immediately became popular public reading. It surveyed the whole of the occult, explaining each element, and provided a history of occult practice in the West from ancient times. The book is especially notable for being the source of the terms [[Major Arcana]] and [[Minor Arcana]] to describe the sections of the [[Tarot]]. | |||
==Death== | ==Death== | ||