Martinism
Martines de Pasqually tricentenary conference
28/02/2010
The tricentenary of Martines de Pasqually’s birth will be celebrated by a conference organised by the Eleazar Institute and the Librarie “L’Etoile du Mage” in partnership with La Société Martines de Pasqually and Les Amis Provençaux de Renaissance Traditionnelle in Marseilles, France, on September 18th and 19th.
This will be a unique event, featuring talks from specialists of Martines de Pasqually’s life and teachings: historians, philosophers, theologians, and theosophists who will try to answer the question many ask, “who was Martines de Pasqually”?
Places are limited to 200, with subscriptions opening on March 15th for a month.
The programme can be downloaded here (pdf).
A dedicated webpage is being published here: http://martinesdepasqually.blogspot.com/
This will be a unique event, featuring talks from specialists of Martines de Pasqually’s life and teachings: historians, philosophers, theologians, and theosophists who will try to answer the question many ask, “who was Martines de Pasqually”?
Places are limited to 200, with subscriptions opening on March 15th for a month.
The programme can be downloaded here (pdf).
A dedicated webpage is being published here: http://martinesdepasqually.blogspot.com/
Discovery of a new manuscript of the Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings
06/02/2010
A rare and remarkable event: an eleventh manuscript of Martines de Pasqually’s Treatise on the reintegration of beings has just been discovered in Paris, at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. A copy that even the late Robert Amadou hadn’t exhumed...
It was spotted by Cyvard Mariette in a reference given by H. Omont in Nouvelles acquisitions du département des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale, 1913-1914 (Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 1915, volume 76, n°1, p. 400).
Xavier Cuvelier-Roy and Dominique Clairembault set out to verify the information, found the manuscript and examined it closely on January 30th, 2010. You can read Xavier’s account in French, here.
The manuscript is referenced NAF 22373 (and on microfilm at MF 21257), included in a larger volume called Mélanges historiques et philosophiques. It is relatively complete, the text being identical to that of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin’s manuscript, except for a few missing paragraphs and additional annotations of the figures. It was copied by 3 or 4 people, of unknown identity. Its date is hard to determine, although it seems likely that it dates at least from the napoleonic empire (early 19th century), as it carries the stamps “Bibliothèque Royale” and “Bibliothèque Impériale”.
It was spotted by Cyvard Mariette in a reference given by H. Omont in Nouvelles acquisitions du département des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale, 1913-1914 (Bibliothèque de l’École des Chartes, 1915, volume 76, n°1, p. 400).
Xavier Cuvelier-Roy and Dominique Clairembault set out to verify the information, found the manuscript and examined it closely on January 30th, 2010. You can read Xavier’s account in French, here.
The manuscript is referenced NAF 22373 (and on microfilm at MF 21257), included in a larger volume called Mélanges historiques et philosophiques. It is relatively complete, the text being identical to that of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin’s manuscript, except for a few missing paragraphs and additional annotations of the figures. It was copied by 3 or 4 people, of unknown identity. Its date is hard to determine, although it seems likely that it dates at least from the napoleonic empire (early 19th century), as it carries the stamps “Bibliothèque Royale” and “Bibliothèque Impériale”.
Holy Trinity or Holy "Quatrinity"?
09/08/2009
In his Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings, Martines de Pasqually often refers to the hypostases of the divinity. However, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit in the Treatise, don’t seem to follow strict Catholic dogma. Martines de Pasqually was a roman catholic, yet his use, and probably his grasp, of common theological terms teetered on a fine line between orthodoxy and heresy. Robert Amadou, arguably the greatest specialist of Pasqually’s teachings since the 18th century, described Martines’ archaic christology as antiochian and pre-nicene.... Read More...
Martines de Pasqually conference
22/02/2009
Martines de Pasqually tricentenary meeting
Organised by the Eleazar Institute
In collaboration with the Martines de Pasqually Society and the bookshop l’Etoile du Mage
In: Marseilles, France, Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th September 2010
The Temptation of Adam
09/10/2007
We already know about the Temptation of Christ, and Jesus’ victory over the Devil. In his Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings, Martines de Pasqually tells us of another temptation, which is the cause of man’s fall. Indeed, the Temptation of Adam didn’t end well, and it took the Repairer, His Son, to initiate the reconciliation of Adam’s descendants with their Creator. Read More...
The Root of All Evil: 2 pillars and 5 consequences
14/09/2007
Is God responsible for all the suffering and evil in the world?
Is the world completely evil?
What is evil?
Does free will have anything or everything to do with evil?
Age old questions indeed, used as arguments both for an against the existence of a God. These questions were recently raised during an interesting discussion with some friends, so I decided to give a short summary here of the way in which Martines de Pasqually approached the matter in his Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings. Read More...
Is the world completely evil?
What is evil?
Does free will have anything or everything to do with evil?
Age old questions indeed, used as arguments both for an against the existence of a God. These questions were recently raised during an interesting discussion with some friends, so I decided to give a short summary here of the way in which Martines de Pasqually approached the matter in his Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings. Read More...
Moses on Mount Sinai and the seven worlds paving the way to reintegration
26/08/2007
Although the planets only occupy a very small proportion of Martines’ highly complex body of teachings, they are of central importance. Indeed, the celestial immensity, in Martines’ table, is shown as the intermediary between our universe—represented by the terrestrial immensity—and the Creator’s closest agents in the supercelestial immensity.
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Louis Claude de Saint-Martin and Plato: Where do our ideas come from?
22/07/2007
Do ideas originate in the brain, or from the input of the senses, or are they independent of any individual brain? Do we depend on external stimuli to form ideas, or are we born with a set of ideas that just kick in independently of our environment? Is consciousness the product of nurture or nature? How interdependent are our ideas and our consciousness?
These questions may seem very outdated today, as the debate appears to have been settled by the neurological argument, according to which the brain is the origin of our consciousness. The question has now shifted to how consciousness arises, which is a similar problem to how ideas are produced.
However, the hypothesis that the brain is not the origin of all our ideas, but merely a “transducer”, can still be made: can one discriminate between a brain that only analyses and translates a raw input into a given output and a brain that is the actual source of the same output? Read More...
These questions may seem very outdated today, as the debate appears to have been settled by the neurological argument, according to which the brain is the origin of our consciousness. The question has now shifted to how consciousness arises, which is a similar problem to how ideas are produced.
However, the hypothesis that the brain is not the origin of all our ideas, but merely a “transducer”, can still be made: can one discriminate between a brain that only analyses and translates a raw input into a given output and a brain that is the actual source of the same output? Read More...
The three extremities of the Earth
20/08/2006
This is certainly one of the strangest aspects of Martines de Pasqually’s teachings: the Earth is triangular (see section 73 of the Treatise, referenced below). In fact, according to Martines, not only the earth but also the entire universe and the bodily shapes of all its inhabitants - including you and I - are triangular. This flies straight in the face of several passages of the Scriptures (Ez 7:2, Rev 7:1), but as I will show, there is a catch, as always, in understanding what Martines is really talking about. Read More...
The Universal Figure
10/07/2006
When trying to grasp the entire creation at one glance, there are few possibilities: you must resort to a figure that, through heavy use of symbolism, allows extensive interpretation while remaining true to the world-view of the person or society that produced it. One of the most striking interpretations of creation, the universe and how man fits in it, is the one the Martines de Pasqually taught his disciples. Louis Claude de Saint-Martin drew an interpretation of the universal figure in his own copy of the Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings, and this is what I'll be discussing in this post. Read More...
First paragraph of the Treatise of reintegration by Martines de Pasqually
06/06/2006
The following excerpt is a translation of the first paragraph of Martines de Pasqually’s Treatise on the reintegration of beings in the first property, virtue and divine spiritual power.
The Treatise is considered to be a (pseudo-) midrach from the 18th century. Indeed, it is a commentary of the bible, and in many places, an extrapolation thereof. The scriptures are the lattice on which a profound teaching is woven. The actual source of Martines’ teaching is a matter of debate, but I have already mentioned one likely candidate. Read More...
The Treatise is considered to be a (pseudo-) midrach from the 18th century. Indeed, it is a commentary of the bible, and in many places, an extrapolation thereof. The scriptures are the lattice on which a profound teaching is woven. The actual source of Martines’ teaching is a matter of debate, but I have already mentioned one likely candidate. Read More...