Ordre Reaux Croix
Library
Public material from the archives of the Ordre Reaux Croix — chiefly the writings of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, the Philosophe Inconnu, offered for study and contemplation. All material is the property of the Order unless otherwise stated, and may not be reprinted without written permission.
Ordre Reaux Croix
The Manifest of the Order is the foundation upon which it is created, and by which it may be dissolved.
The doctrinal fundament of the Ordre Reaux Croix, written to illuminate the path of all spiritual pilgrims who seek the Mystery through the Order. Its eastern direction points out the Mystery the Order reveals through its degrees.
A series of maxims on the Order's teachings, theosophy and human values, written by Jean-Baptiste Willermoz in 1782 and adopted by the Ordre Reaux Croix.
A diagram of the Universal Table — the cosmology of the Elus Coën — reconstructed from the Pasqually, Saint-Martin and Willermoz versions.
Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
A beautiful and poetic rendition of the Martinist myth, written by Saint-Martin at the peak of his Elus Coën period.
Originally «Le Ministère de l'homme-esprit» (1802), translated by Edward Burton Penny in 1864. The last book Saint-Martin published before his death, in three parts: On Nature, On Man, On the Word.
Translated by Edward Burton Penny (1863). The correspondence, begun in 1792, between Saint-Martin and the German Kirchberger — two friends who, owing to the French revolution, never met in person.
Eighty short epistles on Martinism, selected and translated by Arthur Edward Waite. They give an insight into Saint-Martin's symbolic language and his method for applying wisdom in daily life.
Saint-Martin's notebook — so named because he crossed out in red ink the passages he later used in his other works.
From the «Œuvres posthumes» (1807). Reminiscent of the Elus Coën in their phrasing, these prayers were probably never meant to be read aloud or memorised.
«Stances sur l'origine et la destination de l'homme» (Paris, 1796). A dialogue between the soul of Man and the Heavenly Voice, carrying the essence of Saint-Martin's teaching on breaking free of the forces that contain Man.
Russian Martinism
The allegorical Tableau of Nature and Grace, with its explanation — an insight into the work of the Russian Martinists in the line of Ivan Lopukhin.
Excerpts from the Martinist Catechisms of the order of Lopukhin. The first chapter discusses the nature of the «True Knight Mason».