Quotes:Le Loyer, Pierre

Zirkoff, Boris

Le Loyer, Pierre; Sieur de la Brosse. Famous French demonographer, b. at Huillé, near Durtal (Anjou), Nov. 24, 1550 (1); d. at Angers, Jan. 29, 1634. Studied at Paris for five years, then went to Toulouse to study law. After returning to his own province, he became royal councillor for the rest of his life. He was a poet and a book worm, deeply versed in Hebrew, Arabic and other languages ; was well known at the time even abroad and considered one of the most learned men of France. Among his many works are: Idylle sur la Loire, Toulouse, 1572.—Édom et les colonies iduméanes en Asie et en Europe, etc., Paris, 1620.—*Quatre livres des spectres ou apparitions et visions d'esprits, anges et démons se monstrant sensiblement aux hommes, Angers, 1586, 8 books. Also Paris, 1605 and 1608, 4to. This work deals with visions, prodigies of all centuries, and the most celebrated authors, sacred and profane, who have dealt with occult subjects, the cause of apparitions, nature of good and evil spirits, demons, ecstasy, magicians, sorcerers, exorcisms, evocations, fumigations, etc. Paris scholars 380 approved it for the instruction of good Catholics, against the “ pernicious ” opinions of the ancients. Engl, transi, by Z. Jones, London, 1605, 4to.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 7, pp. 379-380