Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin or the Christ's Way

"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?

- - What difference can we make between "the philosopher's god" and personal God?
- What do we understand by "big" and "little" mysteries?
- What symbol holds the rank of Grand Profès developed by Jean-Baptiste Willermoz and what place does the Scottish Rectified Rite hold in Christianism?

The author gives his point of view about dichotomy's inanity which exists between the notions of esotericism and exotericism. On one side, it places esotericism, where pride of initiation  And on the other side, exotericism, sometimes boiled down to religious practices, which aim would salvation: of an individual nature and contingent...
According to Jean-François Var, that junction is but a chimera: the way of the Christ includes both the slopes of that mountain (where the more we climb it the less it is inhabited"... to quote René Daumal, Ed).   

Metaphysic, especially the one developed by René Guénon, brought, according to the author, a great confusion between what has to remain of the conceptual notions and mysteries.  These mysteries aren't demonstrable nor conceivable: reintegration, resurrection, deification of man. These realities can't become certainties through lived experience, and not by a scholastic or an absolutist intellectual metaphysic.











Jean-François Var shows us that Guénon's anthropology is an anthropology without men so nonexistent and that true nature that Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin develops.  It is composed of three elements:

1) The return to the principle (metaphysic vision)
2) The gathering to the light (of which Freemasons claim to be the sons)
3) Restoration of man in his first state (saint-martinian vision)

Do you share the adages according to whom "Gnosis makes inflate" (Saint-Paul), or even "The spirit blows where he wants" (Saint-Jean)?  ... in this 72-minutes filmed during the conference organized by Librairie de la Table d'Hermes (Toulon).