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 »…
Did the thought of these two exceptional men mixed ? What traces of the thought of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin is there within the Willermozian doctrine: the Rectified Scottish Rite ?
To answer that question, we gathered around Thierry Boudignon : Roger Dachez (historian) and Jean-Marc Vivenza (philosopher). The three of them will try to lighten up the subtle links which bound the thought of two men. To do so, they will have to go back to the symbolic and however fatherly of Martines de Pasqually and his Treaty of Reintegration which can't be ignored.
What did the « Leçons de Lyon » and which one tried to operate a Christianization of the thought of Martines de Pasqually ?
Is there a spiritual filiation between Pasqually, Saint-Martin and Willermoz ? And if it is so, what form does it take in the ritual of the Rectified Scottish Rite ?
Answer by our three participants in this 59-minutes debate filmed at the Forum 104.
