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In 1782, Germany recognized in Wilhelmsbad, the freemasonry called "rectified" created by the impulse of Jean-Baptiste Willermoz. The same year the new collection of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin was published: « The natural Board of links which unite God, man and the universe  ».
They know each other: indeed, seven years before, Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin lived in Lyon in Jean-Baptiste Willermoz's place, to write « Des erreurs et de la vérité, ou les hommes rappelés au principe universel »…

Cagliostro carries, for some people, the image of a swindler, scheming, keen on society life. But is that "image" a superficial veneer, characteristic of the way of disapproval ?  A way many initiate took... As you know: Denis Labouré suggests to explore the works of Joseph Balsamo called "Cagliostro", founder of the Egyptian Rite, in Lyon, the 24th of December 1784.

Psychoanalyst can be compared to archaeologists who layers after layers identify clear out the successive layers of our sediments called "certainty - prejudice", "pride" then "resistance - barrier" in order to get closer, and to target our Unconscious. This Unconscious can be compared to what esotericists call "the thin tip of the soul". Does the initiatory way that Freemasonry suggests enable to get closer to it ? To answer this question, we gathered Marie-Hélène Gonnin (Freudian psychoanalyst) and Jacques Fontaine (Freemason, author of many works, published by Detrad) among others) with Daniel Videlier, in this third and last part about this subject.

Second part of our trilogy about Freemasonry in recognition of the Freudian psychology. Marie-Hélène Gonnin (for the psychological part) and Jacques Fontaine (author of many works about Freemasonry, he is a Freemason himself)) will analyze the following themes:
- what does violence mean, simulated or suffered, by the "uninitiated" who gets to the masonic temple's doors and then get over the different degrees ?

 

"Freemasonry on the Couch" could have been called this unexpected meeting between a Freemason, Jacques Fontaine, and a psychoanalyst (non initiated), Marie-Hélène Gonnin. What a Freemason and an analyzed have in common ? What links can we establish between the ritual of masonic
If to Jacques Fontaine, the Socratic Know yourself" represents the recurrent theme between psychoanalysis and Freemasonry, to Marie-Hélène Gonnin,

"You who enter here, give up on hope" indicates Dante on the frontispiece of the Hell doorway.
"Isn't it the warning Henry Corbin should have meditate on when he entered freemasonry at sixty three years-old, in 1966 ? " asks Jean Clergue-Vila, ironically... Henry Corbin was famous as a philosopher, specialist of Iran and of Shiite gnosis.

Founded by Savalette de Langes, general guard of the Royal Treasure, the Respectable Loge des Amis Réunis called "Collège des Philalèthes" had as a goal to constitute a collection of archives and a library to synthesize all the  masonic science. This works gave an extraordinary collection of works in which were all the classics of Alchemy and magic treaties and theosophy.

The real father of the Rectified Scottish Rite, Jean-Baptiste Willermoz is a man of caliber which quest and aspiration to truth are without limits. Born in Lyon, initiated to masonry in 1753, in spite of the acquisition of many degrees, his thirst of Knowledge remains, for years, unappeased.  A meeting is missing in his life, a meeting which would fill in his huge expectations. This meeting will occur in Paris, in 1767, with Martines de Pasqually, master of the Order of the Eleus Cohens.