Martines de Pasqually tricentenary conference
28/02/2010 Filed in: Martinism
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 Filed in: Martinism
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”.
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13/08/2009 Filed in: Other
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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 More...
What God is not
28/03/2009 Filed in: God
God is not a dove. God is not a fire, nor is God light, life or the word. God is not these things because divinity is beyond anything we can touch, see, smell, hear, imagine or think. God is not even the negation of these things. God, indeed, does not exist.
When we think of God we separate ourselves from the divinity by virtue of how we think. How we think derives from how we develop in a world of senses: darkness as the absence of light; smoothness as the absence of roughness; good as the absence of evil - all along a series of continua sliding between extreme polarities. Yet, divinity is beyond these base categories. Therefore, we cannot think of God without being wrong about divinity. Every thought we do have of God is an image, an idol that must be destroyed.
Yet, we have to make do with what we have: the material world, our senses, our amputated intelligence. Such are the shackles of fallen beings: we are our own prison. And we must not only free ourselves, but also every fallen being for the apokatastasis.
When we think of God we separate ourselves from the divinity by virtue of how we think. How we think derives from how we develop in a world of senses: darkness as the absence of light; smoothness as the absence of roughness; good as the absence of evil - all along a series of continua sliding between extreme polarities. Yet, divinity is beyond these base categories. Therefore, we cannot think of God without being wrong about divinity. Every thought we do have of God is an image, an idol that must be destroyed.
Yet, we have to make do with what we have: the material world, our senses, our amputated intelligence. Such are the shackles of fallen beings: we are our own prison. And we must not only free ourselves, but also every fallen being for the apokatastasis.