R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz

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René A. Schwaller de Lubicz (1887 – 1961), born in Alsace-Lorraine, was best known for his 15-year study of the art and architecture of Temple of Luxor in Egypt and his subsequent book The Temple of Man (ISBN 0-89281-021-1). In the book, he explored the connectedness of ancient Egyptian philosophy, spirituality, mathematics, and science.

He was given the title "de Lubicz" by the Lithuanian writer and diplomat Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz.^{[citation needed]}

His background is that of an alchemist, inspired by Paracelsus and other such "masters of the craft" (as it is declared in the foreword of The Temple of Man) and, as such, he taught groups of people inclined to accept that approach to the study of nature.

He is known for his role in outlining what is known as sacred Egyptian architecture. His elucidation of the temple at Luxor and his presentation of the Egyptian understanding of a special quality of innate consciousness form a bridge that attempts to link the sacred science of the Ancients to its what some people consider its rediscovery in our own time. In his chief work, The Temple of Man, he proposes, and argues in great detail, for an interpretation of the Egyptian outlook rooted in numerological and geometrical mysticism; in several of his other works, he makes a corresponding case for the metaphysical richness of various mathematical concepts. As with much ancient mathematics, Egyptian research became quite complex; what can be drawn from that complexity remains subject to debate.

His arguments are controversial today among modern Egyptologists. He is considered by some contemporary mystics to be one of the more important philosophers, mathematicians, and Egyptologists of the twentieth century.^{[citation needed]} His work is not accepted at all by the scientific community, where it is hardly, if ever, mentioned.

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Al-Kemi: A Memoir : Hermetic, Occult, Political, and Private Aspects of R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz, Andre Vandenbroeck, Lindisfarne Books, 1990, ISBN 0-940262-31-2
"AOR" R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, Sa Vie. Son Œuvre, Isha Schwaller de Lubicz, La Colombe, Éditions du Vieux Colombier, Paris, 1963.
La vie et l'œuvre de René Schwaller de Lubicz, Erik Sablé, Éditions Dervy, Paris, 2003, ISBN 2-84454-173-9