About the author
Following Webster’s Dictionary “Biographical Names” concise two-line format, this website relates to: “VICTOR, Owen St. 1935-c.2025 Am. writer.”
“Owen St. Victor… Am. writer” in fact was the expatriate author in Europe of the following printed books from among his six dozen hand-written manuscripts of between 1966 and 2023 "Parallel Lives" (2023-2024).:
(two printed, not published in 2019) - “THE FIREBIRD” (poetry and literary studies), and “THE PEARLS OF FLANDERS” (studies in mystical religious art). Printed and published in his “CHRISTIAN MYSTERIES” series
(from 1987-1991) were: “SECRET CHRISTIANS”, “THE MASKED MADONNA”, and “EPIPHANY” and these were followed by the major printed work, “THE KNOTTED PILGRIM” (circulated privately). His hand-written manuscripts include the final (2023): “TIME FOR UNCOMMON PRAYER (AND A PURPOSE UNDER HEAVEN”).
About the website
The Owen St. Victor Website's purpose is to assist the transmission and preservation, at least in part, of his work – which primarily contributes to the understanding of religious philosophies (expressed in art, words, symbols and ritual) world-wide.
He was supported in his comparative and historical research by his significant collection of specialist and rare and out-of-print books published around the globe which he collected for seven decades, and by the Leuven university’s several libraries near his home in Flemish Brabant. St. Victor’s original, authoritative books are mostly in the fields of the Christian Mysticism found in its traditional practitioners and of the Christian Mysteries as found particularly in the Greek texts of the New Testament. A few of his manuscripts (of among some 70 unpublished works) deal also with the Old Testament and the Jewish Kabbalah; with ancient Greek and Buddhist mysticism; and with other religious and secular philosophies. His own doctoral dissertation was on the philosophy of education, and the metaphysical and physical laws of Change for which he proposed a science termed, “Diapherics”. He also wrote a volume of poetry, “The Firebird”.
This website has several major aspects which indicate, to some extent, the nature of the author’s literary and scholarly productivity, but also the quality of his works by reproductions of his book covers, with symbolic art in front, texts in back; and here, by some detailed Tables of Contents, and sample internal texts and visual matter including charts, symbols, tabulations, and re-translations of Greek, for example.
Another aspect, included here, are some letters and documents which help to characterize the author’s scholarly authority; and some other matter (autobiographical) which witness to the life of the Spirit and, as in Owen’s case the charismatic character associated with one who was a Christian mystic. One purpose of all this is to have “buyers and sellers” (individual collectors, universities, retail book dealers or specialist libraries etc.) to have basic information for their follow-up inquiries. These can be addressed to:
“Executors, Estate of Owen St. Victor”
andrew.victor@telenet.be