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- Jean-Pierre Brach and Jérôme Rousse-Lacordaire, Introduction, In Etudes d’histoire de l’ésotérisme: mélanges offerts à Jean-Pierre Laurent, Jean-Pierre Brach and Jérôme Rousse-Lacordaire, eds, Paris: Editions du Cerf, 2007, pp. 17–20.
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