-
This is the fourth in a series of essays exploring the book “Natural Table” by Louis Claude de Saint-Martin. I am stepping through the book chapter by chapter, with the hope that I can help explain some of the subtle thought of this profoundly wise man. The previous chapter can be found here, and the…
-
This is the third part of a series discussing, chapter by chapter, the book, “Natural Table” by Louis Claude de Saint-Martin. The first in the series can be found here, and the previous article is here. Communication Communication is absolutely fascinating. Taking a physicalist point of view for a moment (a stance I entirely disagree…
-
This is the second in a series of essays on Louis Claude de Saint-Martin’s book, “Natural Table of the Relationships which exist between God, Man and the Universe”. The series begins here. A world of chaos In this chapter, Saint-Martin takes on the subject of the disorder, evil, and chaos that we observe in the…
-
This is the first entry in a series where I will be going through Louis Claude de Saint-Martin’s book, “Natural Table of the Relationships which exist between God, Man and the Universe”. In this post, I will be discussing the first chapter of this book, “Aleph — Truth is in Man”. Given that, at this…
-
The following was inspired by a video published on Youtube by KrKwd. Humans like linear thinking. If you tell someone a vehicle is moving at 50 m/s and ask them how far it will go in 1 minute, most people can give you the answer pretty quickly. Tell them that it is decelerating with a…
-
The Martinist Pantacle is the image you see at the top-left of this page, right beside “Between Two Worlds”. It comes in various colours depending on the circumstances, the grade being represented, and the design choice of the particular Order using it, but the basics are the same. Upwards and downwards pointing triangles, enclosed within…
-
For many good reasons Masonic lodges and other similar initiatory systems take great care in who they welcome into their group. Accepting an application from the wrong person can clearly lead to great damage to a lodge, and will impact the progress of all its members. Additionally though, the effect on the candidate themselves should…
-
“Ten Instructions to Men of Desire”, is a series of lectures by Louis Claude de Saint Martin. On the face of it, they are his interpretation of the cosmology put forward by Martinez de Pasqually in his Treatise. But to think of it as an introductory or explanatory document to Pasqually’s text is to do…
-
During my spiritual awakening I had a realization that there was a connection between basic electromagnetism and some ideas I was starting to formulate about the possible existence of God. The key was the concept that “the potential” and “the actual” are perhaps not as far from one another as I might have thought. Drum…
-
Pasqually’s Treatise describes how the actions of the first spirits created by God had consequences that can only be described as catastrophic on a cosmic scale. The entirety of the subsequent history of the universe is a result of their choices. As a writer of myths, Pasqually also undoubtedly intended these stories to tell us…