I. The Lessons of Lyons
The very first English translation of the notes and lectures written between 1774 - 1776 by Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, Jean-Baptiste Willermoz and Jean-Jacques Du Roy d'Hauterive concerning the and directions given by Martinez (Martinès) de Pasqually.
This volume also includes translations of Saint-Martin's Treatise on the Rainbow and Pasqually's letters.
This is essential reading for anyone interested in the Masonic movement in France in the eighteenth-century and the Élus Coëns in particular.
II. Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings
The 'Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings' of Martinez (Martinès) de Pasqually (c.1727 - 1774) was only partially completed by his death. Pasqually intended this critical work of eighteenth-century esoteric cosmogony to be a complete commentary on the first five books of Genesis, and that which we have was composed during the period when Pierré-André de Grainville, the Abbé Fournié and Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin were his personal secretaries.
Like his contemporary Emmanuel Swedenborg, Dom Martinez is said to have experienced dreams and visions of spiritual realms and the multiplicity of beings inhabiting them. The themes we encounter in the Treatise inevitably include elements of spiritualism and strong alchemical and Rosicrucian principles. This translation incorporates all known key manuscripts, including an in-depth introduction.
III. The de Grainville Manuscripts
A new and unabridged translation of the surviving papers of Lt. Col. Pierre André de Grainville (1728-1794). De Grainville was an initiate of the enigmatic Martinez (Martinès) de Pasqually, the founder of the mysterious Élus Coëns.
Having Progressed through the Order's ranks, de Grainville kept notes of his theurgical operations. Collectively known as les manuscrits de Grainville or le manuscript d'Alger, where they are held at the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF), the folios are not a complete Coen grimoire but an incomplete and fragmentary snapshot of the original rituals in a state of rapid development.
Included are BnF folios FM4 1282 and FM4 1282A.
IV. What We Have Been, What We Are And What We Will Become
Pierre Fournié (1738-1825) published his treatise in 1801. It is translated here into English, in its entirety, for the very first time.
The Abbé's work focuses on the core Martinist doctrine of reconciliation, regeneration, and reintegration expounded by the original Élus Coëns of Martinez (Martinès) de Pasqually. This is an incomparable record of one of the leading lights of eighteenth-century French esotericism.
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.
