François Brousse

At the age of fourteen, he wrote The Tales of the Pigeon and the Source, which touched on "love leading to voluntary self-sacrifice in terms of accepting suffering and the death of one’s beloved " It was followed by a swordsman novel, Jasmine that occurred at the time of King Louis XIV and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1685).

François Brousse (7 May 1913 – 25 October 1995) was a philosophy professor who had mainly taught in the Languedoc-Roussillon region and is the author of some 80 works including poetry, essays (metaphysical, astronomical, historical and Esoteric), novels, plays and storybooks.

He was a pioneer of the philosophy cafes that were popping up almost everywhere in France at the end of the 20th century.

Brousse was born in Perpignan, France and died in Clamart, France.

In his approximately 40 poetry books, François Brousse embodies the role of a poet.

To begin to understand what François Brousse saw as "Auroral poetry" (Title of Book VIII), we must first address the poem, "Auroral or Where My Fairy Lives" (date of completion, April 1928).

" ‘Divine Poetry,’ shows the young poet the works of Ronsard, La Fontaine, Victor Hugo, Leconte de Lisle by a woman with blond hair through air bound travels. The poet asks, "Which of these four beings must I imitate?" The goddess answers, "You will decide for yourself.

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"Art needs to be free,

The infiniteness of all the heavens,

Eternity must vibrate

To its capricious impulses."

The deeper meaning of this long poem (916 verses) is that everything dies but is also reborn, "animals, humans and plants," and even suns: "Yes, the immortal star has been killed! / But the Infinite gives it life again. " There is an idea of permanent creation and perpetual rebirth in a collision of merging worlds.

At the end of his life, François Brousse confides in the presence of his friends :

"When I was a child, my father had asked me:

What do you want to create?

I answered him :

Auroral Poetry.

He told me :

That is extremely ambitious.

You think the Dawn didn’t exist before your Poetry ?

And I told him that the Dawn is perpetually renewed.

He told me I was right and he would help me at the bottom of the Abyss after he had entered the infinite, the absolute and the eternal.

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From all his sources of inspiration and admiration, at a very young age François Brousse finally chose his favorite poet after some hesitation: Victor Hugo.

This choice was apparent in the prologue of Une Gorgée de Poésie (A Sip of Poetry) written from May to August 1928.

It was an anthology dedicated to Victor Hugo specifying the presence of a seed of poetry within every soul and that "a being without poetry is a being without a soul […] incapable of superhuman feelings. "

His notebook on The Poetry of Victor Hugo, "the strong giant, especially in his kindness to the humble," yet again exemplifies this high poetic awareness.

The subjects touched upon in these conferences, which were usually announced in the local press, principally addressed the goal he had given himself in 1945, "One of my earthly missions will be to not only impart the keys to Hugolian esotericism but also the mysteries of Saint John and the secrets of Nostradamus. "

Seen as an unclassifiable and colorful character from the city, he described himself as "a quiet man."

He explained, "I prefer to meditate rather than meet people and be in crowds. I only want to be read because I have an important message to communicate. […] My mission is to relight the blazing flame of poetry, metaphysics and perfection. "

The daily French local papers, L'Indépendant, Midi Libre, La Dépêche du Midi as well as other regional and national news sources dedicated at least two hundred and fifty articles to him whereas periodical journals came out with more than three hundred other sources concerning him in some way or another.

The only child of a French family from Perpignan, François Brousse had a studious and secretive youth.

"Already mastering the subtleties of the French language and composing verses, he wrote his first poem ‘Soir,’ (Night) ‘most likely at the age of ten.’" With extraordinary virtuoso, he also began his first book entitled Fantasies, which he dedicated to his "beloved parents," and finished at the age of fifteen.

He had a strong taste for literature, especially poetry with five hundred poems, about three thousand verses, three thousand new ones in prose, and some forty drawings and paintings found within Fantasies.

In addition to his interest in writing, he was well known in the city of Perpignan for hosting informal meetings in public areas, cafes, herbal stores and special groups, such as the Groupe de la Quatrième Dimension 1950 (The Fourth Dimension Group) and the Association France-Inde 1953.

He also contributed to numerous regional magazines such as Madeloc, Sources Vives, Agni, Conflent, Tramontane and so forth.

In a radio broadcast (1957), he described this role as being the "gardener of humanity": "Since then, I believe in the civilizing mission poets have. He scatters seeds of beauty, admiration, enthusiasm and love in humanity's collective subconscious. These seeds grow slowly and through them, we can witness a soul's development, the only true type of advancement existing ".

His knowledge and talent as an orator was visible in conferences that became more frequent after 1963.

First held in Prades, then in Perpignan and they finally spread around France, Geneva (Switzerland, 1990) and Tell el-Amarna (Egypt, 1992).