Patrick Lepetit

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Patrick Lepetit has written several books in French on esoteric traditions and surrealism. He is a member of the Grand Orient de France and of the Mélusine Network of scholars interested in surrealism. He lives in Mons en Baroeul, France.

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Books by Patrick Lepetit

Surrealism and Operative Alchemy

The Secret Language at the Origins of the Surrealist Movement

By Patrick Lepetit

Discover the links between European surrealism and the alchemical tradition

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The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism

Origins, Magic, and Secret Societies

By Patrick Lepetit

Foreword by Bernard Roger

A profound understanding of the surrealists’ connections with alchemists and secret societies and the hermetic aspirations revealed in their works

• Explains how surrealist paintings and poems employed mythology, gnostic principles, tarot, voodoo, alchemy, and other hermetic sciences to ...

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