Published just a year before his seminal Le Sommeil et les Rves (1861), this book by French scholar L. -F. -Alfred Maury (18171892) examines the complex history of occult philosophy. A librarian by profession, Maury was widely published in geography, archaeology, medicine, law, psychology and bibliography as well as history, and was a well-known figure in Parisian intellectual circles. In this 1860 publication Maury considers the relationship between...