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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''). | 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]]. | 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]]. | ||
The first American Edition published by Citadel Press in 1963 altered the title to ''The History and Practice of Magic''. This edition was released as two volumes with revisions from the original text. | The first American Edition published by Citadel Press in 1963 altered the title to ''The History and Practice of Magic''. This edition was released as two volumes with revisions from the original text. | ||
==Death== | ==Death== | ||
Pitois wrote one additional book, ''The History of the War with Prussia and of the Two Sieges of Paris'', 1870-71 (1872–73). His health declined through the 1870s, and he died at Lyon on July 12, 1877. He left behind a still-unpublished work on astrology that reportedly contains numerous allusions to contemporary events as proof of the value of | Pitois wrote one additional book, ''The History of the War with Prussia and of the Two Sieges of Paris'', 1870-71 (1872–73). His health declined through the 1870s, and he died at Lyon on July 12, 1877. He left behind a still-unpublished work on [[astrology]] that reportedly contains numerous allusions to contemporary events as proof of the value of [[horoscope]]s. | ||
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