Le Cycle judéo-chrétien

Gaston Georgel (1899-1988) was a French historian and author of traditionalist works. The source of Gaston Georgel's work is mainly a development of certain cyclological aspects of the traditional doctrines exposed by the work of René Guénon. As a student of history in Paris, Georgel discovered a magazine in a waiting room. His curiosity is suddenly attracted by an article about the coincidences of certain historical facts appearing at regular intervals throughout the reigns of France. These "fortuitous" coincidences enabled Georgel to discover and subsequently expound the doctrine of traditional cycles, until then only mentioned by René Guénon, and whose main source is the doctrine of cosmic cycles in Hinduism. Few authors have paid so much attention to the rhythms in history. When Georgel began to study the subject in the 1930s, he realized that history does not repeat itself, but presents "rhythms" at given intervals. These early findings were published in 1937 in "Rhythms in History". Some of the parallels exposed are astonishing, notably concerning Louis XIV and Louis XVI, at an interval of 539 years (77 x 7) or concerning the French and English revolutions separated by about 144 years. René Guénon reviewed Georgel's book as soon as it was published. He approved most of the facts demonstrated but regretted that Georgel had not worked on a cycle of 25920 years and its divisions, representing the precession period. Georgel then completed his studies with new works that were just as complete. More generally, Georgel manages, through a different, earlier and independent traditional work, to depict a past cyclology with dates similar to those of Graham Hancock's work.