 Louis-Claude de Saint- Martin, also called "The Unknown Philosopher", is one of the most original spirits of philosophy and spirituality of the eighteenth century. He was born in Amboise on January 18th of 1743, he chooses a military career after he studies law and got the rank of second lieutenant in the infantry regiment of Foix. It's at that time, in Bordeaux, where he lives in Winter, that Saint-Martin meets Martinès de Pasqually and enters the Order of the Elus Cohens.
which will mark him for life.
In 1771, he leaves the army to become the personal secretary of Martinès de Pasqually. Thanks to his energy, the order is organized with efficiency and the master took advantage of his young assistant’s talent to go forward in the writing of his texts, of which the emblematic Traité sur la reintegration des être. What brought Saint-Martin in the different versions of this book ?
Were new discoveries found recently about the making of the Treaty?
 
After the departure of Martinès de Pasqually to Port-au-Prince, en 1772, Saint-Martin starts with Jean-Baptiste Willermoz his activity of professor of the Elus Cohens. It’s at that time he wrote his first book, Des erreurs et de la vérité (Of mistakes and truth), which he signed “An unknown philosopher”.
In 1780, the order of the Elus Cohens stops officially its activities. After a short passion for mesmerism, Saint-Martin discovers the work of Jacob Boehme which moves him. From that discovery, his quest gets inner and the theoretical character of his first writings fades away to a more poetic dimension.
In 1790 he decides to break up with all his prior affiliations: Order of the Elus Cohens and Freemasonry.
Will this evolution make Saint-Martin to also abandon the philosophy developed by Martinès de Pasqually ? Can we understand his work without reading the “Traité sur la reintegration des êtres ? The question is open, but there is one thing sure, by his books, such as Des erreurs et des vérité (1775), Le Tabeau naturel (1782)…, the Unknown philosopher contributed to assure the perenniality of Martinès de Pasqually’s ideas.
This 33-minutes presentation was filmed during the conference of the tercentenary of Martinès de Pasqually, organized by the Institut Eléazar and the review Rennaissance Traditionnelle, in Marseille, in September of 2010.
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