CEDAIOR – Albert Raymond Costet de Mascheville
” Albert Raymond Costet de Mascheville, descendant of the Count of Banayis, of Chabanai, Seguir, Mascheville, was born in Valence, France on July 1st, 1872
At the age of 7, greatly enthusiastic about music, taking a teacher to his house, he convinced his father to let him pursue an artistic career.
At the age of 12, he won the State Prize and received a scholarship to continue his studies at the Paris Conservatory.
At the age of 14, he left his father’s home, joining the Conservatory in 1885, earning his own livelihood by giving lessons and working in an orchestra. Then, in Paris, several people of great prominence in art, as well as in Science and Philosophy, became interested in the boy who was said to be “sincere, intelligent, out of the ordinary.
At the age of 14 he was a student of the astronomer Camille Flamarion, coming into contact with spiritualists, Freemasons and occultists who recognized in him predicates and intellectual and moral values, very different from in other boys of his age. With great dedication and interest, they took care of his education and study.
At the age of 18, he was initiated into Freemasonry. At the age of 24, he was commissioned by the Institute of High Oriental Studies in Paris in Mission in the East. Two years later he returned to Paris, being in charge of Courses and Conferences at the Polytechnic Association.
He collaborated with all the great philosophers and spiritualists in the great reform that took place in France in the years 1893, 1895 and 1898. Among those who took the young man on as a disciple and collaborator were Estanislau de Guaíta, Papus, Durville, Blavatski, Steinene, Richet, Coronel Rachas Scure, Leon Denis.
Simultaneously, he collaborated in several artistic foundations. All the time that his artistic activity left him free, he dedicated himself to his spiritualist ideals. He also dedicated himself to science, having made important discoveries in acoustics, mechanics and astronomy.
In 1910, he came to the conclusion that Europe was on the brink of its downfall, he left Paris and headed for South America. Argentina, Goiás, São Paulo and finally, in 1941, Porto Alegre, where he settled.
Wherever he went, he carried out good works, inaugurated Music Conservatories, Institutes of Science, Spiritualist Schools.”
Text by Leo Costet de Mascheville, Sevananda
