THEOPHILANTROPIE - Collection of 4 works bound in 1 volume i - Lot 39

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THEOPHILANTROPIE - Collection of 4 works bound in 1 volume i - Lot 39
THEOPHILANTROPIE - Collection of 4 works bound in 1 volume in-12 contemporary marbled basane, smooth spine decorated (corners rubbed, a few freckles and browned quires): 1/ CHEMIN-DUPONTES: Manuel des théophilantropes ou adorateurs de Dieu et amis des hommes...Au Bureau des ouvrages de la Théophilantropie, 1798. 59 pp; 2/Du Même: Instruction élémentaire sur la morale religieuse, par demandes et réponses...Au Bureau du courier de la Librairie, 1797. 48 pp.; 3/Collection of canticles, hymns and odes for the religious and moral festivals of the Theophilanthropists, or worshippers of god and friends of men; preceded by the invocations and formulas which they recite in the said festivals. Au Bureau des Ouvrages de la Théophilantropie, an VI. 69 pages; 4/CHEMIN-DUPONTES: Année religieuse des théophilantropes ou adorateurs de Dieu et amis des hommes...Au Bureau des ouvrages de Théophilantropie, 1797. 167 and176 pages. Very rare collection of texts of this simulacrum of religion which wanted to replace Christianity in France under the Directory. "This new religion, whose dogmas have never been well determined, was the invention of the director Larévellière-Lepaux, who was its great pontiff. Its adherents took turns to exercise the priesthood in the main churches of Paris. Dressed in white robes and wearing tricolored caps, they recited philosophical hymns from the pulpit in honor of God Nature. Neither the protection of the Government, nor the free sending of the Manual of theophilanthropists in the departments, nor the financial aid for the establishment of the cult, could propagate and support this sacrilegious mummery, where one could see impious and blood-stained conventionals. The work fell at the same time as its founder. At the end of 1799, the theophilanthropists, already reduced to a very small number in Paris, restricted themselves to four churches, where their cold parties no longer attracted anyone. The attraction of the novelty vanished, the theophilantropy ended without noise, after four years of existence." (Dictionary of Heresies, 1847 edition).
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