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{{Notice|Page of the '''historical and doctrinal section''' of the wiki. Documents '''Martinès de Pasqually''' (1727-1774) and his '''doctrine of the Reintegration of Beings''', the central doctrine of 18th-century French esoteric Christianity from which '''[[Jean-Baptiste Willermoz|Willermoz]]''' and — later — Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin (mystical Martinism) and Papus (exoteric Martinism) derive. Convergent sources on Drive: Boyer, Galtier (with explicit citations). Direct quotations '''[VERIFIED]'''; secondary historiography flagged as such.}}

'''Martinès de Pasqually''' (Grenoble 1727 — Saint-Domingue, today Haiti, 1774) is the central figure of 18th-century French esoteric Christianity. He founded between 1754-1758 the '''Ordre des Élus Coëns de l'Univers''' (Elect Priests of the Universe, from the Hebrew ''cohen'' = priest) — a '''theurgic Masonic rite''' of which some '''rituals of evocation and ceremonial operations''' remain among the most audacious documented in modern Europe. He left unfinished a '''''Traité de la Réintégration des Êtres''''' (Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings) — a cornerstone work of the hermetic-Masonic cluster documented by the wiki, of which '''[[Jean-Baptiste Willermoz|Willermoz]]''' is the direct heir and, indirectly, the entire Christian-initiatic side of the tradition that the '''[[Convento di Wilhelmsbad|Convent of Wilhelmsbad]]''' (1782) codified as the '''Régime Écossais Rectifié''' (RER).

== I. Life and context ==

'''[VERIFIED]''' Galtier (''La Pierre Philosophale...'') places Pasqually in the context of the '''Jewish communities of the Comtat Venaissin''' (Avignon, Carpentras, Cavaillon) — one of the oldest Jewish presences in Europe, maintained in the Papal States when it had been expelled elsewhere.

Pasqually's origins are a subject of historiographical debate: he is called a «'''Portuguese Jew'''» by 18th-century writers, although Galtier specifies that the formula did not imply birth in Portugal but «''belonging to the networks of Sephardic communities of Mediterranean Europe''». A possible origin remains «'''of Iberian Sephardic lineage''' with relations also outside French communities» — Morocco, Rome, Livorno, Avignon, Nice.

'''[VERIFIED]''' Galtier emphasizes the decisive contextual fact: «''Jewish religious schools formed scholars who knew the sacred texts perfectly: Bible, Talmud, Zohar, etc. They taught not only Hebrew, but also Aramaic (then called "Chaldean"). '''Accomplished Kabbalists, the Portuguese Jews were renowned for their occult knowledge'''''». Pasqually comes from this environment of high Sephardic Kabbalistic tradition — which explains the Kabbalistic-Christian character of his work.

'''[VERIFIED]''' Pasqually's Masonic-theurgic activity unfolds in three main stages:

* '''1754-1758''': foundation and first patents of the Ordre des Élus Coëns. Pasqually operates in Bordeaux, Marseille, Toulouse, Lyon.
* '''1767-1772''': period of the Order's greatest development, with Lyon as the center of initiatic transmission. It is in Lyon that '''[[Jean-Baptiste Willermoz|Willermoz]]''' becomes Pasqually's disciple in 1767, founding with his brother Pierre-Jacques the Élu Coën lodge La Bienfaisance.
* '''1772-1774''': Pasqually embarks for Saint-Domingue (today Haiti) to settle an inheritance matter. He does not return from that journey: he dies in Port-au-Prince on '''September 20, 1774''', leaving the ''Traité de la Réintégration'' unfinished and the Order without a recognized leader.

== II. The Ordre des Élus Coëns ==

'''[VERIFIED]''' Galtier describes the Order as «''Masonic Élus Coëns of the Universe of Martinès de Pasqually''» (line 1498 original text). The word ''Coën'' is the Hebrew כֹּהֵן (priest): the Elect Priests are therefore '''initiates who exercise a theurgic priesthood''' — a ritual ministry that operates directly on the invisible plane.

The initiatic structure is articulated in three classes and nine degrees:
* '''Symbolic class''' (1-3): apprentice, fellow, master (essentially adapted degrees of blue lodge Masonry)
* '''Class of the Port''' (4-7): apprentice coën, fellow coën, particular coën, master coën
* '''Class of the Cross''' (8-9): Grand Élu (Réau-Croix)

The higher degrees (particularly the Réau-Croix) involve '''specific theurgic operations''' with ritual designs (the ''pantacles'') traced on the ground, divine words in Hebrew, evocations of spiritual entities (angels, demons, souls of the deceased). It is '''an explicit operative theurgy''', not symbolic.

== III. The doctrine of Reintegration ==

Pasqually's central doctrine is '''the Reintegration of Beings''', expounded in his ''Traité''. It is simultaneously a '''cosmology''', an '''anthropology''', and an '''operative soteriology''':

=== Cosmology: emanation and the fall ===

God (the '''Supreme Being''') emanates, by pure creative power, a series of spiritual beings. The hierarchy comprises '''four categories of emanated beings''':

# '''Beings of the Divine Quaternary''': emanated first, around the Father — perfect, immutable
# '''Beings of the Septenary''': spirits that preside over cosmic operations
# '''Beings of the material Universe''': forces that animate terrestrial nature
# '''Man''': emanated last, '''image of the Word''', endowed with a spiritual power that equals the higher emanated beings

The '''fall''' is not only Adam's sin — there is an '''earlier''' fall of part of the spiritual beings (an echo of the doctrine of rebel angels, rethought in a Gnostic-Kabbalistic key). Adam had been emanated '''to compensate''' for the previous fall — but he in turn falls. Historical humanity is therefore '''exiled''' from its primitive condition, imprisoned in matter, but '''retains the original spiritual power''' to reascend.

=== Anthropology: man as a fallen spiritual being ===

Man is not simply «created in the image of God» — he is an '''immediate spiritual emanation of the Word'''. His present condition — a body of matter, sensations, passions — is '''a provisional condition of exile''', not his proper nature. The proper condition is the spiritual-luminous one that the doctrine of the '''[[Il Lavoro sui Quattro Corpi dellUomo|four bodies]]''' (solar body, luminous body, Origen's ''nous'', Agrippa's upright-unfallen soul) describes in hermetic language.

=== Soteriology: the twofold operation ===

'''[VERIFIED]''' The central doctrinal cipher of Pasqually — the one that distinguishes him from all other systems of his time — is the '''distinction between Reconciliation and Reintegration'''. Boyer, citing Robert Amadou, states it precisely:

«''The constitution of man according to the Kabbalah surpasses the body and the tripartite soul. Two superior states metamorphose us, little worlds, little gods: '''haya and yehida'''. No adequate translation point, as far as I know, except for the two modalities of being that '''Martinès de Pasqually''' respectively names '''"Reconciliation" (individual)''' and '''"Reintegration" (universal)'''''».

* '''Reconciliation''' (haya in Kabbalah): the individual recomposition of the initiate — his particular redemption, the return of his own spiritual person to union with the Word. It is '''the work of one who enters the Élus Coëns''' and completes their theurgic path.
* '''Reintegration''' (yehida in Kabbalah): the '''universal''' return of all fallen beings to their primitive condition. It is '''the historical-cosmic fulfillment''' that precedes and prepares the end of times — the Christian apocatastasis understood in a Kabbalistic-operative sense.

The two operations '''are not separate'''. Individual reconciliation '''contributes''' to universal reintegration: every Élu Coën who reconciles with the Word '''accelerates''' the universal return of all beings.

== IV. The legacy ==

Pasqually's sudden death in 1774 leaves the Order without a unified guide. His legacy branches into two streams:

=== 1. The Lyonese and Willermozian branch (operative-initiatic) ===

'''[[Jean-Baptiste Willermoz|Willermoz]]''' inherits the archives and rituals of the Coëns. After Pasqually's death, he continues '''in the initiatic direction''' by integrating the doctrine of Reintegration into the system of the Strict Templar Observance that he had encountered through his brother Pierre-Jacques. The '''[[Convento di Wilhelmsbad|Convent of Wilhelmsbad]]''' of 1782 marks the turning point: there Willermoz '''succeeds in having the reformed Strict Observance''' (the new «Chevaliers Bienfaisants de la Cité Sainte») adopt the doctrine of Reintegration as its theoretical core. Thus is born the '''Régime Écossais Rectifié''' which is — essentially — the rite that carries forward the Martinèsian legacy in European Freemasonry.

Subsequently, '''[[Jean-Baptiste Willermoz|after Wilhelmsbad]]''', Willermoz opens up to magnetism (Société de la Concorde of Lyon, 1783) and seeks to '''renew Pasqually's doctrine''' through the revelations of the somnambulist Mlle Rochette — the episode known as «the Incognito Agent».

=== 2. The Saint-Martiniste branch (mystical-literary) ===

'''Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin''' (1743-1803) — the «Philosophe Inconnu» — is also a disciple of Pasqually in Lyon. After the master's death, he '''progressively abandons the operative theurgic path''' (rites, evocations, ''pantacles'') judging it dangerous and dispersive, and turns towards an '''inner mystical path''' founded on the prayer of the heart and meditation on the Scriptures. His work (''L'Homme de désir'', 1790; ''Le Nouvel Homme'', 1796) transports the doctrine of Reintegration to a '''contemplative-Christological''' plane.

This is the '''mystical Martinism''' to which — a century later — '''Gérard Encausse (Papus)''' will refer, with the founding of the Ordre Martiniste (1891). See '''[[Le Filiazioni dei Riti Egizi|The Filations of the Egyptian Rites]]''' for the institutional framework of post-Papus Martinism.

'''[VERIFIED]''' Galtier notes a documented internal tension: «''Papus's adversaries were adepts of the '''"operative Martinézism"''' of Martinès de Pasqually and quite disdainful of the '''"mystical Martinism"''' of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin claimed by Papus''». Even today the two branches remain distinct: Papusian exoteric Martinism (Papus → Bricaud → Chevillon → Dupont → Ambelain → Kloppel) and the small nuclei of Élus Coëns who have sought to restore the original operative path.

== V. The problem of Pasqually's «source» ==

'''[VERIFIED]''' Galtier reports a crucial datum for the wiki, citing a testimony of Charles of Hesse-Cassel: «''According to Willermoz, what he had learned of [Waechter]'s doctrine seemed to indicate that it had the same source as the ''Traité de la Réintégration'' of Martinès de Pasqually, and that '''there was reason to believe that Waechter possessed one of the famous originals from which Pasqually declared he had drawn his incomplete teaching'''''».

Pasqually himself, in other words, declared his doctrine '''not a personal invention''' but a '''partial reconstruction''' based on more ancient sources that he could not obtain in full. The point is important for the '''[[La Tradizione prima delle Filiazioni|methodological position of the wiki]]''': even the most articulated system of the esoteric 18th century presents itself '''as a resumption of an undocumented earlier tradition''', not as an original foundation.

'''[VERIFIED]''' Galtier specifies that '''the Asiatic Brother Hirschfeld''' declared he possessed «''Kabbalistic writings analogous to those from which Martinès de Pasqually had drawn inspiration and whose doctrine he would have distorted''». Thus, already in the 18th century, '''the authenticity and completeness''' of Pasqually's transmission was debated.

== VI. Placement within the cluster ==

=== In relation to [[Massoneria Egizia e Magnetismo|Egyptian Masonry]] and [[Cagliostro e il Rito Egizio|Cagliostro]] ===

Pasqually and Cagliostro are '''almost contemporaries''' (Pasqually 1727-1774, Cagliostro 1743-1795) and operate in the same years in France (Cagliostro is in Lyon in 1784-85 — precisely the city that was Pasqually's center, and where Willermoz is still active). '''[VERIFIED]''' Boyer reports an interesting note: «''Willermoz reproached Cagliostro for deceptively passing himself off as a Christian''». The tension between the two currents — Martinèsian-Christian and Egyptian-Cagliostrian — is documented. They are '''two parallel responses to the same crisis''' that the '''[[Convento di Wilhelmsbad|Convent of Wilhelmsbad]]''' (1782) attempts to resolve.

=== In relation to the [[Arcana Arcanorum]] ===

The doctrine of Reintegration and the Arcana Arcanorum '''are not incompatible''' — they are to a large extent '''convergent versions in different languages'''. Pasqually's individual Reconciliation corresponds — essentially — to the generation of the individual Immortal Body of which '''[[La Doctrine du Corps Immortel|The Doctrine of the Immortal Body]]''' speaks. Universal Reintegration corresponds to the universal fulfillment that older alchemical traditions speak of as the «ultimate work». The distinction is one of emphasis (Pasqually is more theological-Christian, the AA are more alchemical-Egyptian), not of substance.

=== In relation to Mesmerism ===

Pasqually operates '''before''' Mesmer (Mesmer publishes in 1779, five years after Pasqually's death). But his theurgic rituals of the Coëns already operate phenomenally '''on that same subtle plane''' that magnetism will describe — visions, ''spirituels'' entering ritual spaces, ''passes'' (evoked numerical passages). When Willermoz, post-Wilhelmsbad, opens up to magnetism (cf. '''[[Jean-Baptiste Willermoz]]'''), he recognizes '''in Mesmeric practices a new language''' for phenomena that Coën theurgy already knew — and attempts to synthesize them.

== VII. Living practice in the School ==

''Declared section: living practice of the Paret School (ISI-CNV).''

In the School's didactics, the Martinèsian legacy is '''present as a historical-doctrinal reference''', not as direct operative practice — because the Coëns' path was explicitly theurgic (evocations, ''pantacles'', operations with angels and demons) and the School has retained only those '''elements compatible''' with its own primarily Egyptian-Italian operative line (see '''[[Kremmerz e Ordine Osirideo Egizio|Kremmerz and the Osiridean Egyptian Order]]''', '''[[Cagliostro e il Rito Egizio|Cagliostro and the Egyptian Rite]]''', '''[[Arcana Arcanorum]]'''):

* '''The distinction Reconciliation/Reintegration''' is a fundamental methodological reference: the School works first on individual Reconciliation (the student who reconstructs themselves) and only later hints at universal Reintegration (the cosmic dimension of the work). The operative principle: '''one who has not reconciled cannot contribute to reintegration'''.
* '''The principle of man as a fallen spiritual being''' (Pasqually) is compatible with the doctrine of the '''[[Il Lavoro sui Quattro Corpi dellUomo|four bodies]]''': the luminous body already exists in man but is ''buried'' (Osiris/Hiram) and must be brought to the surface. The School uses the language of the four bodies (which is more technical and operative) but recognizes the convergence with Martinèsian doctrine.
* '''The non-original source''': the fact that Pasqually himself declared he had '''received incompletely''' a more ancient doctrine corresponds to the wiki's principle (cf. '''[[La Tradizione prima delle Filiazioni|The Tradition before the Filations]]''') — '''tradition precedes its codifications''', and no system claims to be original but rather a '''partial bearer''' of a broader science. The School positions itself in the same way: it does not claim an original foundation, it recognizes an unbroken line of which it is one of the current voices.
* '''The Saint-Martiniste caution''': Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin abandoned Pasqually's operative theurgy because he considered it '''dangerous and dispersive''' without adequate inner preparation. The School shares the diagnosis: '''advanced theurgic practices require first the complete rectification''' of the three lower bodies. Evocations are not taught to those who have not worked on the terrestrial body, emotions, and will. It is the same thing that '''Kremmerz''' formulated with the saying «he who has not made gold externally does not make it within himself».

== Documentation status ==

{| class="wikitable"
! Statement !! Status !! Source
|-
| Martinès de Pasqually (1727-1774), founder of the Élus Coëns of the Universe, unfinished ''Traité de la Réintégration'' || ✅ VERIFIED || Boyer p. 7; Galtier — Drive
|-
| Jewish-Sephardic origins (Comtat Venaissin), Kabbalistic formation || ✅ VERIFIED || Galtier p. 78-79 — [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fTw5de_0S5E3ta6IesraFAk79ghzQtAw/view Drive]
|-
| Distinction Reconciliation (individual) / Reintegration (universal), corresponding to Kabbalistic haya/yehida || ✅ VERIFIED || Boyer p. 7, citing Robert Amadou — [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cQpcjH3rL5l-SRYGhZ05bzU7MPTkK610/view Drive]
|-
| Willermoz disciple of Pasqually from 1767; Lyonese legacy; integration into the RER post-Wilhelmsbad || ✅ VERIFIED || Galtier p. 999, 3306; cf. [[Jean-Baptiste Willermoz]] and [[Convento di Wilhelmsbad|Convent of Wilhelmsbad]]
|-
| Saint-Martin disciple of Pasqually who abandons theurgy for mysticism; mystical vs operative Martinism || ✅ VERIFIED || Galtier p. 4836, citing Vulliaud ''Histoires et portraits de Rose-Croix'' 1987 — Drive
|-
| Willermoz reproached Cagliostro for deceptively passing himself off as a Christian || ✅ VERIFIED || Galtier p. 3344 — Drive
|-
| Pasqually declared he had received his doctrine incompletely from more ancient sources || ✅ VERIFIED || Galtier p. 6136-6138, citing Charles of Hesse-Cassel — Drive
|-
| Hirschfeld of the Asiatic Brothers declared he possessed writings analogous to Pasqually's sources || ✅ VERIFIED || Galtier — Drive
|-
| Structure of the Élus Coëns: 3 classes, 9 degrees, up to the Réau-Croix || ⚠️ HISTORIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE (consolidated historiography, to be consolidated with primary source) || Labouré, Denis, ''Martinès de Pasqually'', SEPP, Paris, 1995; Robert Amadou
|-
| Death of Pasqually on September 20, 1774 in Port-au-Prince || ⚠️ HISTORIOGRAPHICAL REFERENCE || consolidated Martinèsian historiography
|}

== Sources ==

* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1cQpcjH3rL5l-SRYGhZ05bzU7MPTkK610/view Rémi Boyer et al., ''Secrets de la franc-maçonnerie égyptienne'', foreword by Amadou — Drive ISI-CNV] — '''[VERIFIED]'''
* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1fTw5de_0S5E3ta6IesraFAk79ghzQtAw/view Gérard Galtier, ''La Pierre Philosophale et la Tradition des Rites Égyptiens'' — Drive ISI-CNV] — '''[VERIFIED]'''
* Martinès de Pasqually, ''Traité de la Réintégration des Êtres'' (posthumous, first edition 1899 edited by René Le Forestier) — '''[Pasqually's primary source, to be acquired in full on Drive]'''
* Denis Labouré, ''Martinès de Pasqually'', SEPP, Paris, 1995 — '''[reference academic historiographical source]'''
* Robert Amadou, works on the Martinèsian tradition — '''[reference historiographical source]'''
* Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, ''Des Erreurs et de la Vérité'' (1775), ''L'Homme de désir'' (1790), ''Le Nouvel Homme'' (1796) — '''[primary sources of mystical Martinism]'''
* René Le Forestier, ''La Franc-Maçonnerie templière et occultiste'' (1970) — '''[reference source on the Martinèsian/Templar connection]'''
* Paul Vulliaud, ''Histoires et portraits de Rose-Croix'', 1987 — '''[cited by Galtier on the tension among Martinists]'''

== See also ==
* [[Marquis de Puységur]]
* [[Le Chevalier de Beauregard — Magnetismo Esoterico e Tradizione Egiziana|Le Chevalier de Beauregard — Esoteric Magnetism and Egyptian Tradition]]
* [[I Predecessori del Magnetismo Animale — la Catena Dottrinale Documentata da Thouret|The Predecessors of Animal Magnetism — the Doctrinal Chain Documented by Thouret]]
* [[Mesmer e la Société de l Harmonie Universelle|Mesmer and the Société de l'Harmonie Universelle]]
* [[Il Martinismo|Martinism]]
* [[La tradizione cavalleresca come via delluomo al rosso|The Chivalric Tradition as Man's Path to the Red]]
* [[Il Risveglio|The Awakening]]
* [[Stretta Osservanza Templare|Strict Templar Observance]]

* [[Jean-Baptiste Willermoz]]
* [[Convento di Wilhelmsbad|Convent of Wilhelmsbad]]
* [[Cagliostro e il Rito Egizio|Cagliostro and the Egyptian Rite]]
* [[Le Filiazioni dei Riti Egizi|The Filations of the Egyptian Rites]]
* [[La Tradizione prima delle Filiazioni|The Tradition before the Filations]]
* [[La Doctrine du Corps Immortel|The Doctrine of the Immortal Body]]
* [[Il Lavoro sui Quattro Corpi dellUomo|The Work on the Four Bodies of Man]]
* [[Arcana Arcanorum]]
* [[La Voie des Sons|The Way of Sounds]]
* [[Massoneria Egizia e Magnetismo|Egyptian Masonry and Magnetism]]
* [[Neo-Chevalerie nel XIX secolo|Neo-Chivalry in the 19th Century]]
* [[La Massoneria Mesmerica|Mesmeric Masonry]]
* [[Philosophia Hermetica di Federico Gualdi|Philosophia Hermetica of Federico Gualdi]]
* [[Kremmerz e Ordine Osirideo Egizio|Kremmerz and the Osiridean Egyptian Order]]
* [[La Tradizione Ermetica nella Massoneria|The Hermetic Tradition in Masonry]]
* [[Portale della Tradizione Ermetica|Portal of the Hermetic Tradition]]
* [[Portale della Tradizione Magnetica|Portal of the Magnetic Tradition]]

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[[Categoria:Cristianesimo esoterico]]
[[Categoria:Settecento esoterico]]
[[Categoria:Massoneria]]
[[Categoria:Linea francese]]

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