Saint-Yves d'Alveydre

Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre (1842-1909), poet and writer, is a Christian esotericist who influenced Papus, Stanislas de Guaita and René Guénon.
Keen by Victor Hugo and Fabre d'Olivet in his youth, draws from his philosophical and historical work the germs which led him to his future literary orientation, tainted with occultism.

Seeking to conciliate religion and science, he creates the concept of synarchy which he develops in his mains works: Mission des Souverains" (1882),  "Mission des Ouvriers" (1883), "Mission des Juifs" (1884), "Mission de l’Inde en Europe" (1886), "La France vraie" (1887) et "L'Archéomètre - Clef de toutes les religions et de toutes les sciences de l'Antiquité - Réforme synthétique de tous les arts contemporains" (1909).

He died when he starts to work on the Archeometer, a universal key which permits to gauge Antiquity and to determine the value of each philosophical, scientific or religious system, to integrate it to the universal tree of science or tradition.