Jacolliot was searching for the "Indian roots of western occultism" and makes reference to an otherwise unknown Sanskrit text he calls Agrouchada-Parikchai, which is apparently Jacolliot's personal invention, a "pastiche" of elements taken from Upanishads, Dharmashastras and "a bit of Freemasonry". However, Sanskrit philologist Max Müller confirmed that it is not a Sanskrit term at all and "it was simply invented" by Jacolliot.Īnother succesful Jacolliot's book was Occult science in India, written during the 1860s and published 1875 (English translation 1884). "Christna" is his way of spelling "Krishna" is an evidence and he wrote that Krishna's disciples gave him the name "Iezeus" which means "pure essence" in Sanskrit. Jacolliot does not claim that Jesus was in India as some have claimed. He concludes that the account in the Gospels is a myth based on the mythology of ancient India. His most famous book is La Bible dans l'Inde, Vie de Iezeus Christna (The Bible in India, or the Life of Iezeus Christna 1869) in which he compares the accounts of the life of Bhagavan Krishna with that of Jesus Christ in the Gospels and concludes that it could not have been a coincidence, so similar are the stories in so many details in his opinion. His works although are not philological accurated and are mostly sensationalistic and made for a bourgeoise public. He has been described as a prolific writer for his time with a great knowledge of indian religion. He lived several years in Tahiti and India during the period 1865-1869 as a judge, getting in touch with numerous social and religious indian groups. Louis Jacolliot was a French barrister, colonial judge, orientalist, author and lecturer.
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