Martinez de Pasqually and the office of the holy spirit
"As to keeping your spiritual obligations, you will personally recite the Office of the Holy Spirit, the Miserere Mei and the De Profundis "
Martinez de Pasqually, 2 September 1768
A curious blend of esoteric Jewish and Christian streams converged in Pasqually's system, which we know today as Martinezism. He claimed to act under the direction of an anterior order, and mentioned "teachers and faithful friends" who had taught him. Yet the spiritual devotions of the temporal Church were of paramount importance to Pasqually, who required his adepts to recite some of the canonical Offices or Hours of the Church.
Chief of these was the medieval Office of the Holy Spirit, which by his time had become truncated into a "Little Office" contained in a rare Book of Hours.
This book includes a fully reconstructed manuscript and translation of the medieval Office of the Holy Spirit, as well as the shorter Hours. With a foreword by Matt Fletcher, this new book is available as a full-colour hardcover with dustjacket, or as a black-and-white paperback.
Few components of the Office and Hours of the Holy Spirit survive in modern Catholic devotional prayer books. The Office was a medieval devotional prayer cycle similar in structure to existing Divine Offices, but was never included in the Roman Breviary. Its surviving invocations instead found their way into the services and Office for the day of Pentecost.
A shorter version of the Office of the Holy Spirit without the Psalms (the Hours) found its way into print in prayer books, usually in France, until the late eighteenth century.
Martinez (Martinès) de Pasqually believed incontrovertibly in the Holy Spirit, and clearly felt that its intercession was a critical step on the path to Reconciliation. This new book provides a translated liturgy of the rare Hours of the Holy Spirit, recommended by Pasqually as a weekly devotional, along with a transcription and translation of the medieval Walters manuscript containing the full Office.
It also provides a thoughtful analysis of the evolved theological beliefs of Pasqually, and how the Holy Spirit was fundamental to the development of the Coën theophilosophy. The volume beautifully dovetails into the corpus of foundational texts of the Coën path.
As to why Pasqually selected the penitential Psalms De Profundis and Miserere Mei, this is all explained in the book ...
Available to purchase as a black & white paperback, or as a hardcover in full-colour with jacket.
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“Modern scholars, notably M.R. Osborne, Dominique Clairembault, Michelle Nahon, Roger Dachez and Serge Caillet, have added to our understanding of the work of the practising Coën by uncovering aspects of the tradition unavailable to Ambelain."
Matt Fletcher
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