Pierre Fournié: What We Have Been, What We Are And What We Will Become
Pierre Fournié wrote his treatise What We Have Been, What We Are, And What We Will Become between 1775 and 1801. It was published in England and French in 1801, and was intended to be the first of two treatises dealing with his metaphysical system. The second volume was never published, although a manuscript may have been written. This is the first English translation of this critical work.
One discovers just how erudite Fourie's ability to explain symbology is. His treatise has many autobiographical references, and he remarks that the key to his clairvoyance lay in the experiences he underwent with Pasqually's Élus Coëns, which did not cease after the Order's disbandment. He continued to ‘meet' Pasqually, his late parents, a deceased sister and another being whom he says was not human (neither was it male or female). These visitations sometimes occurred daily and continued for the rest of the Abbé's life. Fournié tells us that he had visions of Christ on three occasions: before, during and after the crucifixion. Swedenborg's writings on vitality influenced him. Suppose you consider the Swedenborgian layering of reality, which is very similar and reminiscent of the seven spheres in the above diagram. In that case, we can see how Fournié would or could begin to understand his perception of the spirit world before him.
This rare treatise is a seminal part of any collection. With a detailed introduction about the Abbé's life and the influences on his thinking, the book includes a Preface by the Great Sovereign of the Ordre des Chevaliers Maçons Élus Coëns de l'Univers, O.O.E.C.
Pierre Fournié: What We Have Been, What We Are And What We Will Become
A Martinist Treatise on Reconciliation, Regeneration and Reintegration from the Eighteenth Century
The core of Fournié's metaphysics concentrates on the battle between good and evil in the co-existing corporeal and spiritual universes. This struggle continues after physical death in a purgatorial state of existence, of which this present world and our present lives are a part.
Pierre Fournié (1738-1825) was a tonsured priest and an early initiate into the Élus Coën. His message reflects the philosophy of the Order, which is to live by God's ways so that we may, little by little, “dematerialize and spiritualise ourselves in his likeness."
This fascinating image is one that the Abbé extends beyond the confines of this world and into the next, where “the mixture” of good and evil continues and where we must settle on discerning truth and purifying ourselves through suffering until we can reconcile with God fully. Eventually, we become “men of the eternal light that issues from him.”
The Abbé adopts a stoic philosophy, regarding the pursuit of virtue as the only temporal path open to man for his reintegration. The Seven Gifts of the Spirit are forces that oppose Satan's desire to trick humanity into believing him as the only true god. Fournié's ethics are uncompromising. For him, the sole objective and guiding principle is discerning the will of God, through which we may finally become free of the influence of Satan and his apostles.
This book explains all of this and more. It starts with an excellent three-part introduction by the author, who demonstrates an in-depth level of research into the subject matter—not only with Pierre Fournié but also with the Order of the Élus Coën.
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