A Martinist Order
Ordre Reaux Croix
“You are Man, never forget that you are the manifestation of human dignity. Respect this noble heritage, for that is your first and foremost mission upon the earth.”
— Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
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Martinism is a path of initiation for those who seek enlightenment — what our predecessors called “man’s reintegration with himself and his divine origin.”
Martinism is a 250-year-old Western esoteric mystery tradition. It portrays the original state of man as a unity of being: an awakened state where we see ourselves in clarity, with a direct insight and gnosis of our origin — what we are, and what we seek.
In our daily consciousness we let outer influences and inner movement disturb this clarity, breaking the original unity.
This gives rise to unrest, disharmony and illusion regarding reality, oneself and the world. Such illusions are a natural result of being alive, but the patterns of thought and action they create quickly become petrified habits. One lapses into a sleeping state, beside oneself, and loses the clarity of the moment.
By delving into our own depths, perceiving what we are and have become, we are liberated from the illusions of habit and see reality face to face. We become who we are.
The purpose of the Tradition is to aid men and women who desire to return to this original spiritual state — one that seems lost in a time where the apparent and superficial dominate our understanding of ourselves.
The Order is the custodian of a system of teaching and a method — a practice to reawaken, liberate and unfold what lies hidden in the depths of the human being.
Through a language of symbols, which speaks to that part of ourselves that words cannot express, the root of our being is reached. This path is taught in an Order open to all men and women, regardless of nationality, preference or religious confession.
Ordre Reaux Croix conveys it through initiation, self-study, meditation, philosophy, inner alchemy and theurgy, with roots in early esoteric Christianity, Hermeticism, alchemy and Western mysticism. It adheres to no exclusive confession, but insists on an absolute respect for all of humanity — for the light of Truth that shines behind all religions.
Reunited in 2002 by the custodians of its three lineages, the Order returns to a source first organised in 1767, and is today active across eight countries.
Studies begin by initiation into the Voie Cardiaque, the Way of the Heart, and may deepen into the theurgy of the Élus Coëns or the chivalric path of the C∴B∴C∴S∴.
Though largely unknown, the Martinist current has drawn many well-known figures — Czar Nicholas II, Nikolai Novikov, the Comte de Saint-Germain, Éliphas Lévi, Arthur Edward Waite, Helena Blavatsky, Papus, Hermann Hesse, Honoré de Balzac, Arnold Böcklin, Claude Debussy and Édith Piaf among them.
Ex uno, per tria, ad unum
The Three Branches
We represent the relationship between the branches as a candelabrum — one luminary, or flambeau, that dispels the same darkness and where the same fire burns.
Voie Cardiaque
The Way of the Heart
The mystical and contemplative branch, for those who seek an inner way to enlightenment. The initiatory journey begins here, for all.
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Élus Coëns
The Elect Priests
The theurgical branch — Martinez de Pasqually’s particular form of ceremonial magic, the world’s oldest systematic theurgical order.
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C∴B∴C∴S∴
The Knighthood
The chivalric branch, our heritage from Jean-Baptiste Willermoz — a deeper philosophical perspective on the inner alchemical work.
Enter →“The only initiation which I advocate, and which I look for with all the ardour of my soul, is that by which we are able to enter into the Heart of God within us.”
— Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
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