Serge Hutin born in France

France

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, was an author on books on esoterica and the occult

Occult

The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus , referring to "knowledge of the hidden". In the medical sense it is used to refer to a structure or process that is hidden, e.g...

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Writer

Hutin was a writer of many books on the occult and esoteric, he wrote about Freemasonry

Freemasonry

Freemasonry is a fraternal organisation that arose from obscure origins in the late 16th to early 17th century. Freemasonry now exists in various forms all over the world, with a membership estimated at around six million, including approximately 150,000 under the jurisdictions of the Grand Lodge...

, secret societies, Rosicrucianism, alchemy

Alchemy

Alchemy is an influential philosophical tradition whose early practitioners’ claims to profound powers were known from antiquity. The defining objectives of alchemy are varied; these include the creation of the fabled philosopher's stone possessing powers including the capability of turning base...

 and astrology

Astrology

Astrology consists of a number of belief systems which hold that there is a relationship between astronomical phenomena and events in the human world...

 and many other occult topics. Hutin wrote about the Kabbalah

Kabbalah

Kabbalah/Kabala is a discipline and school of thought concerned with the esoteric aspect of Rabbinic Judaism. It was systematized in 11th-13th century Hachmei Provence and Spain, and again after the Expulsion from Spain, in 16th century Ottoman Palestine...

 and claimed that Isaac Newton

Isaac Newton

Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian, who has been "considered by many to be the greatest and most influential scientist who ever lived."...

 was a Christian Kabbalist.

Hutin is most well known in UFO circles for his ancient astronaut book called Alien Races and Fantastic Civilizations (1975) in we he claimed ancient civilizations across the earth were colonial outposts built by extraterrestrials. The book was similar to books by other authors of the time such as Jacques Bergier

Jacques Bergier

Jacques Bergier , was a chemical engineer, member of the French-resistance, spy, journalist and writer...

 and Jean Sendy

Jean Sendy

Jean Sendy is a French writer and translator, author of works on esoterica and UFO phenonema. He was also an early proponent of the ancient astronaut hypothesis.-Ancient Astronauts:...

.Hutin also wrote about Atlantis

Atlantis

Atlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias, written about 360 BC....

 and gave a lot of credit to Plato

Plato

Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...

for writing about it.

List of works

Hutin published over 40 books (The following are ones which have been translated into English):

• History of the Rosicrucians (1959)
• World history of secret societies (1959)
• The Freemasons (1960)
• Paracelsus: the man, the physician, the alchemist (1966)
• A History of Alchemy - Ancient Science of Changing Common Metals Into Gold (1971)
• Robert Fludd (1972)
• Alien Races and Fantastic Civilizations (1975) ISBN 0425027694
• Casting spells (1978)
• History of astrology (1986)
• Nostradamus and alchemy (1988)
• Invisible government and secret societies
• The Prophecies of Nostradamus

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Serge Hutin 1927 - 1997