36 Skhidnoievropeiskyi Istorychnyi Visnyk. Issue 24. 2022 Viktor GUDZ, Dmytro POMAZAN UDC 94(44):239.4 DOI 10.24919/2519-058X.24.264734 Viktor GUDZ PhD hab. (History), Professor, Professor of the Department of History and Archeology of Bohdan Khmelnytsky Melitopol State Pedagogical University, 20 Hetman Street, Melitopol, Ukraine, postal code 72312 (viktorvgudz@gmail.com) ORCID: 0000-0001-5756-1683 ResearcherID: AAT-8382-2021 Dmytro POMAZAN Post-Graduate Student of the Department of History and Archeology, Melitopol State Pedagogical University, 20 Hetman Street, Melitopol, Ukraine, postal code 72312 (d.kart84@ukr.net) ORCID: 0000-0001-6300-4306 Віктор ГУДЗЬ доктор історичних наук, професор, професор кафедри історії та археології Мелітопольського державного педагогічного університету імені Богдана Хмельницького, вул. Гетьманська, 20, м. Мелітополь, Україна, індекс 72312 (viktorvgudz@gmail.com) Дмитро ПОМАЗАН аспірант кафедри історії та археології Мелітопольського державного педагогічного університету імені Богдана Хмельницького, вул. Гетьманська, 20, м. Мелітополь, Україна, індекс 72312 (d.kart84@ukr.net) Bibliographic Description of the Article: Gudz, V. & Pomazan, D. (2022). Prerequisites for the Establishment of the “Theosophist Society” on the Territory of France during the Period of the “Magical Revival”. Skhidnoievropeiskyi istorychnyi visnyk [East European Historical Bulletin], 24, 36–47. doi: 10.24919/2519-058X.24.264734 PREREQUISITES FOR THE “THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY” ESTABLISHMENT ON THE TERRITORY OF FRANCE DURING THE PERIOD OF THE “MAGICAL REVIVAL” Abstract. The purpose of the research is to characterize the “Theosophical Society” formation and activities as the element of the “Magical Revival” in France in the XIXth century. The methodology of the research is based on the principles of historicism and scientifc objectivity. In addition to general scientifc methods: analysis, synthesis, philosophical method, induction and deduction, special historical methods have been used in the study: historical comparative, historiographical, historical and typological methods, as well as – for a complex study – the interdisciplinary method of sympathetic empiricism has been used to defne esotericism as a religious component of society. The scientifc novelty is that, for the frst time in the Ukrainian historiography, the processes of institutionalization of occult societies issues development on the territory of France began. In particular, an important component of the study of this topic is to elucidate the process of the Magical Revival, as a complex sociocultural phenomenon that emerged on the territory of France in the second half of the