[Fauvety, Charles ] - Règne de l’Esprit pur. - 1896

[Fauvety, Charles]. Reign of the Pure Spirit.
Nantes, Jules Lessard, bookseller-publisher, 1896.
In-12, 128 pages, publisher's binding printed, spine unprinted. Second edition, very rare, published from a manuscript delivered to the publisher by Charles Fauvety in 1893. The original edition had appeared anonymously in 1856 under the expanded title: Reign of the Pure Spirit or the New Jerusalem.

Curious treatise on Christian mysticism and esotericism, composed mainly of biblical quotations arranged to announce the advent of a regenerated humanity, "pure spirit," and the final reign of Christ. The text was noted as one of the sources of Christian Gnosticism of the late 19th century. The attribution to Charles Fauvety remains debated: the publisher presents him only as the custodian of the manuscript, but several ancient Spiritist catalogs list him as the author.