Around Cruseilles Haute-Savoie, American Mary Schillito has built in the early 1900 Château des Avenières. The latter was on vacation in Geneva, when, during a trip near the Sàleve (mountain foothills), she discovered the field of Avenières. Charmed by the incredible panorama overlooking the Alps, Mont Blanc and Lake Annecy, Mary Schillito quickly decided to build his home there.
His father, tycoon American railroads and died shortly before, had left him a huge fortune. Mary buys 84 acres of Avenières in 1907 and began construction of the castle. During construction, she carefully research all the elements that go to make up its interior in a gothic style and medieval. In 1913, the construction is completed. Thirty five constituent parts castle then host lavish parties.
It was during one of these receptions two destinies intersect, Mary Schillito U.S. and Assan Farid Dina Indo-Mauritian English. Born of an Indian father and a French mother, he shall receive an excellent education, he is an engineer like his father and passion for travel. In 1914, they married.
Assan Dina complete the construction of the Castle with a power plant and capture a source. Facilities it is enjoy the closest. Town
engineer brilliant, passionate but also esoterism, he built an adjoining chapel, whose interior walls are covered with mosaics. Mosaics Assan home metaphysical and symbolic form of the 22 major arcana of the Tarot de Marseille message. These blades are closer to that of Oswald Wirth. * Iconography
Assan Dina has established a special arrangement of the mosaics in the chapel so that they connect and are a way of life that it is possible to borrow.Each blade has the main characteristics of classic Tarot, but has a background with a symbolical much richer. The characters are dressed in ancient clothes (Egypt, Persia). There is also the bottom blade cartridges. Each cartridge consists of a number of arcane left, a Hebrew letter on the right, and the center of figures representing different planets and chemical symbols. Assan Dina completed and signed in 1917 mosaics.
Château des Avenières is a private place, where is the good Parisian society debate on philosophical and esoteric subjects. Assan Dina hid a message in the chapel without symbolic to benefit the world. He died in 1928 near the Suez Canal. Mary remarried two years later. Ruined and divorced, she eventually sells the Château des Avenières in 1936.
The castle will then see succeed different tenants. In 1939, a congregation of Polish nuns settled there and cover the mosaics of the chapel. During the war, the castle welcomes the wounded and it is transformed into boarding school from 1948 to 1970. After experiencing many homeowners, the Château des Avenières was finally converted into a hotel and restaurant, and is still used today as well.
* Oswald Wirth (1860-1943) created with a tarot Guaita Stanislas “The Tarot Wirth” and published a book in which is explained and commented on his Tarot: Tarot of the image-makers of the Middle Ages , the work became a classic.
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