Martinisme

The French word "experience", contains in German two meanings and two translations: with on one hand the notion of "Erfahrung" which involves the presence of a teaching and provokes "experimentation". On the other hand the word "Erlebnis" which evokes the experience, an inner experience, without a practical or tangible application. End of the 18th century, men and women searching for invisibility, that is to say those who don't just "believe" but want to "experience God",

Roger Dachez talked, in a precedent presentation, about a flirt of the belle époque between Martinism and Freemasonry. What about today? Did this flirt transformed into a beautiful and enduring love story or on the contrary did the paths turn away?
After a short recalling of these many partings that occurred in Martinism between the 19th century and the 20th century, Roger Dachez tries to answer this question going through three points:

Jean-Marc Vivenza talks about the place of Unknown Philosopher in Freemasonry of the 18th century and gives us a chronological and biographical panorama of the initiatory course that lived the philosopher Ambroise. His beginnings in the Elus–Cohens while he was in Foix in an infantry regiment. His accession to the ultimate rank Réau-Croix in 1772 followed by his Master's exit, Martines de Pasqually, leaving him alone, at the head of the Elus-Cohens.

His first meeting with Jean-Baptiste Willermoz and their joint efforts aiming at rectifying Freemasonry of the time, what was to become the The Scottish Rectified Rite

"I will talk about a path... The path of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin: friend of God and wisdom, but also friend of men..." warns Jean-François Var, an orthodox priest and Freemason. Enlightened by his life course and the attentive reading he did of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, Jean-François Var tries to give some keys of understanding:
- What hiatus does exist between metaphysic and Christian mysteries?
- What is initiation?

There are polysemous words which create many confusions. Roger Dachez, Freemasonry historian, tries to define in this presentation what is "Martinism", we is meant by "Martinism" and the ambiguous relations that Martinism and Freemasonry have always had.
- What continuity do we observe between saint-martinian ideas (Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin), martinezist (his master: Martinès de Pasqually) and those of their "spreader" Gérard Encausse, Papus, creator of the Martinist Order a century later?

René Guénon and Martinism Which part of the thinking of Louis-Claudet de Saint Martin and Jean-Baptiste Willermoz is influenced by Martines de Pasqually? For René Guénon, it is that part characterised by a certain tendency towards dualism and Manichaeism. This repeated assertion about them by the critics also unavoidably leads to a critique of the thinkers’ conception of matter, which regards matter as unacceptable and reprehensible.

The Way of the Heart What is “the Way of the Heart”? If we try and summarise its meaning, it evokes charity, reminding us of those well-know expressions: “He has a good heart” or “He wears his hear on his sleeve”.

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