Treatise
Holy Trinity or Holy "Quatrinity"?
09/08/2009 Filed in: Martinism
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
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The Root of All Evil: 2 pillars and 5 consequences
14/09/2007 Filed in: Martinism
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 Filed in: Martinism
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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A new translation of the Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings, by Trevor Stewart
23/04/2007 Filed in: Reviews
Trevor Stewart has just published*1* an English translation of
Martines de Pasqually’s Traité de la réintégration
des êtres*2*.
This is a major event for English-speaking martinists
and followers of Willermoz’s rectified scottish Masonic
rite (rite
écossais rectifié), and more widely for all
those interested in Christian theosophy. This text
is the condensed summary of the doctrine of the
Ordre des Chevaliers Maçons des Elus Coëns de
l’Univers. Not only that; this text was intended
for the highest degree of the Order, the
Réaux-Croix, and although it was never finished it
is a major source for those attempting to grasp
what Martines was transmitting to his disciples
during the second half of the eighteenth century.
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The three extremities of the Earth
20/08/2006 Filed in: Martinism
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
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The Universal Figure
10/07/2006 Filed in: Martinism
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
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First paragraph of the Treatise of reintegration by Martines de Pasqually
06/06/2006 Filed in: Martinism
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...