WORKS BY PÉLADAN

Ideas and Forms (Published by Sansot)

The Land of the Sphinx (Egypt), 1900.

The Land of Christ (Palestine), 1901.

The Last Lesson of Leonardo da Vinci, 1904.

Origin and Aesthetics of Tragedy, 1905.

The Key to Rabelais (the secret of the guilds), 1905. Péladan often sought hidden esoteric meanings in classic literature; here he explores the "secret of the corporations" or trade guilds within Rabelais's work.

From Parsifal to Don Quixote (the secret of the troubadours), 1906.

Introduction to Aesthetics, 1906.

On the Sensation of Art, 1907.

The Doctrine of Dante, 1907.

Report to the Public on the Fine Arts, 1908.

On Humanism (the secret of the Renaissance), 1909.

On the Androgynous, 1910. The concept of the Androgyne—a being combining male and female qualities—was central to Péladan's mystical philosophy of perfection.

Aesthetic Decadence

(THE XXV PREVIOUS WORKS IN THIS SERIES ARE OUT OF PRINT)

Ochlocratic Art, octavo, 1888. term: Ochlocratic (rule by the mob). Péladan used this to criticize the "vulgarization" of art in modern society.

Idealist and Mystic Art, eighteen-mo, 1894.

The Theater of Wagner (the XII Operas, scene by scene), 1895. Péladan was a leading "Wagnerian," seeing Richard Wagner's operas as the ultimate spiritual synthesis of the arts.

The Response to Tolstoy, eighteen-mo, 1898.

Introduction to the history of painters of all schools from the origins to the Renaissance, with reproduction of their masterpieces and special gallery guide, quarto, in the format of Charles Blanc: ORCAGNA and ANGELICO.

The XI Mysterious Chapters of the Book of Genesis, 1894. original: "Sepher Bereschit" (Hebrew for the Book of Genesis).

Science, Religion, and Conscience, 1893.

The Next Conclave (instructions to the cardinals), 1898.

Petition to the Pope for Divorce, 1904.

Aesthetic Refutation of Taine (Mercure), 1906.

Amphitheater of Dead Sciences

This series title refers to "dead" or "occult" sciences—esoteric knowledge like alchemy and magic that Péladan sought to revive.

I. How One Becomes a Mage (ethics), 1891.

II. How One Becomes a Fairy (erotics), octavo, 1892.

III. How One Becomes an Artist (aesthetics), octavo, 1894.

IV. The Book of the Scepter (politics), octavo, 1895.

V. The Catholic Occult (mysticism), octavo, 1898.

The original text repeats Roman numeral IV for the sixth entry instead of VI.

IV. Treatise on Antinomies (metaphysics), octavo, 1901. term: Antinomies (contradictions between two laws or principles that both seem true).

VII. The Science of Love (in preparation).