"As to keeping your spiritual obligations, you will personally recite the Office of the Holy Spirit the Miserere Mei and the De Profundis, once a week, which is Thursday, as the sign and day of Jupiter, even as David used it for his reconciliation, which I will teach you in due order. When you have experienced this prayer's value and force, you will recite the Office of the Holy Spirit at the same hour of the day. I do not limit you but for the Miserere Mei and the De Profundis you will recite them at night before sleeping; the De Profundis with the face against the Earth and the Miserere Mei with the face towards the Orient [East]."
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" in a rare Book of Hours. In 2025 M.R. Osborne will bring you a reconstructed edition of the full medieval Office of the Holy Spirit, as well as the Little Office used by by Pasqually. The significance of the Office and why it was so important to Pasqually will be unveiled.
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