Quotes:Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, Alexandre

Zirkoff, Boris

Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, Marquis de. Vide Bio-Bibliographical Index of Volume IX in the present Series, for information concerning him.

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 8, p. 474

Saint-Yves d’Alveydre, Marquis Alexandre. French publicist, sociologist and religio-philosophical writer, b. in Paris, 1839; d. at Pau, 1909. Very little information seems to be available about his life. He was for a time editor in the office of foreign press connected with the Department of the Interior. After retiring from this activity, he devoted all his time to study and writing, leading a life of seclusion in Paris. Among his many works should be mentioned: Mission des Souverains (1882; also Paris: Nord-Sud, 1948, 8vo., with portrait of the author); Mission des Ouvriers (1883), 453 *Mission des Juifs (1884, 8vo. 947 pp.), considered to be one of his most important works; La France vraie (1887); l’Empereur Alexandre III, épopée russe (1889); Jeanne d’Arc victorieuse (1890); La Théogonie des Patriarches, etc. (Paris, 1909, 4to. 99 pp.); l’Archéomètre, clef de toutes les sciences de l’Antiquité, etc. (Paris, 1911, 4to., 231 pp., posthumously publ.; it is very scarce and is looked upon as the synthesis of his entire literary work); Mission de l’Inde en Europe, etc. (1912). Saint-Yves outlines in most of his works certain ideas concerning the social structure of mankind which he calls the Synarchy. His writings are closely related to those of Fabre d’Olivet.

Consult Le Lotus, Paris, Vol. II, May, 1888, for a long article on both of these writers by “Papus” (Dr. Encausse).

Source: Boris de Zirkoff, «H. P. Blavatsky Collected Writings», vol. 9, pp. 452-453