A Collection of the Core Élus Coëns Manuscripts in One Series
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 teachings and directions given by Martinez de Pasqually.
This volume also includes translations of Pasqually's letters. This is essential reading for anyone interested in the Masonic movement in France and the Élus Coëns in particular.
The Treatise on Reintegration was incomplete at the time of the death of its enigmatic author, Martinez / Martinés de Pasqually (c.1727-1774).
Pasqually had intended his treatise to be a commentary on the salvation history of man from the advent of Adam to the ascension of Christ, but what we have survives through the redacted copies of his two personal sectaries, Pierre Fournié (1737-1825) and Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin (1743-1803). Like his contemporary, Emanuel Swedenborg, Pasqually wrote of the mysteries of man's communication with angels, demons, and spirits. His treatise is a systematic engagement with the cause and origins of evil, and how it is to be overcome as part of God's plan for the redemption of humanity.
Pierre-André de Grainville (1728-1794) was an initiate of Martinez (Martinés) de Pasqually (c.1727 - 1774), the enigmatic founder of an ascetic order of Catholic mystics and exorcists known as l'Order des Chevaliers Maçons Élus Coëns de l'Univers (the Élus Coëns). Having progressed through the Order's ranks, de Grainville kept handwritten records of his theurgical operations.
De Grainville's notes, known as 'les manuscrits de Granville' ('The de Grainville Manuscripts' otherwise known as 'The Manuscript of Algiers'), are referenced as FM4 1282 and FM4 1282A by the Bibliotheque nationale de France (BnF). They are not a complete Coën grimoire and collection of catechisms, but a snapshot of the original rituals in a state of rapid development.
Pierre Fournié (1738-1825) wrote his treatise What We Have Been, What We Are, And What We Will Become between 1774-1801. 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 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
