A summary of the teachings of Martinez des Pasqually concerning the ultimate destiny of Man and the concept of Re-integration so basic to Martinist praxis.
A summary of the teachings of Martinez des Pasqually concerning the ultimate destiny of Man and the concept of Re-integration so basic to Martinist praxis.
A summary of the teachings of Martinez des Pasqually concerning the ultimate destiny of Man and the concept of Re-integration so basic to Martinist praxis.
A summary of the teachings of Martinez des Pasqually concerning the ultimate destiny of Man and the concept of Re-integration so basic to Martinist praxis.
A Summary of Martinez des Pasqually's Cosmology based on his book
"A Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings"
by Brother Benedictus
1. Before the beginning of Time, God emanated Spiritual Beings
2. They were emanated from the Four-Fold Divine Essence 3. They were distinguished from each other by their virtue, power and names 4. They formed four categories that were much more powerful than the Cherubim, Seraphim, Archangels and Angels which God emanated afterwards 5. They possessed part of the power of God capable of reproducing forms 6. They were innate in the different organisms comprising the material universe 7. They were real and imperishable, having a personal existence, absolute and eternal, within the Divinity. 8. By abusing the freedom that God had given them, some of these initial Spiritual Beings sinned 9. This basic sinful Will of some of the First Category of Spiritual Beings constituted the principle of spiritual evil 10. God created Materiality to become a fixed location for them to act and exercise their malice in Deprivation; to be a boundary of their evil operations; to become a “prison” in which they were “emancipated” 11. In order to appoint a sort of “Guardian” to this “prison”, God emanated Adam or “the First Temporal Father” to oppose and restrain these Daemonic Powers continually 12. All Spiritual Beings were subject to him 13. Adam represented that Category of Spiritual Being who ranked in the celestial hierarchy immediately after God 14. He had assumed a “form” that enabled him to act at will on the forms of living organisms and inanimate entities 15. As the emanated “Man-God”, his power extended over the entire universe 16. Without the rebellion of some of the First Category, no Spiritual Being would have been made subject to Materiality. No boundaries would have been established. 17. Henceforth, the universe was composed of four realms: The Divine Immensity, The Supra-Heavenly Realm, The Heavenly Realm and The Earthly Realm 18. Correspondingly, God emanated four Categories of Spiritual Beings: The Superior, The Major, The Inferior and The Minor. 19. The first two Categories functioned in a medium where everything is Spirit and nothing is Matter but they did not have the faculty of producing Spiritual Beings 20. The other two Categories had the faculty of producing Materiality but used it only at the moment of their own emanation to form the physical world that was to serve as a molestation of the original rebels 21. The Inferior Beings created the celestial or heavenly bodies 22. The Minor Beings created the Earth 23. Hence, there were two Materialities 24. Adam, residing in the Celestial realm, functioned as a “pure Divine Spiritual Being” 25. Placed in the Celestial realm, Adam was assured of God’s direct help in coping with the rebels 26. These realms had been thus assigned exclusively for Adam’s use and, since they were to serve as boundaries for the rebels, they depended on Adam so that he could exert his power on them according to his Will and the laws of order. 27. Such was the sublime condition of Adam. 28. Unfortunately, like the rebels, he used his free will and, like them, he abused his privilege. His pride caused him to think that the power which God had assigned to him over the universe was almost as great as God’s. 29. This sinful pride made itself known to the Daemonic Powers 30. One of their leaders persuaded him to operate his dominion over all inferior Spiritual Beings 31. Adam possessed the “Word”, but he could not operate that power without God’s active co-operation. 32. However, Adam tried to create Spiritual Beings without God’s co-operation. 33. Instead of a glorious form similar to his own, Adam produced only a sinister, physical form. He named this “Houva” 34. As punishment for his sin, God enclosed a soul in the material form created by Adam 35. God permitted this impure product to subsist from generation to generation partly in order that we might learn that the miseries and hardships we have to endure until the end of Time are not caused by God but by our own primeval Father, the creator of impure and passive Matter which is subject to suffering. 36. In addition, Adam was banished from Heaven and thrown into the Earth where the consequences of his sin were manifested. 37. The material form that he, in his sinful pride, had created now served to perpetuate a race of fallen souls. 38. He found himself separated henceforth from God and exposed to the influence of the “Daemonic Powers” 39. He was unable to resist their seductions except by God’s Grace. 40. However, the power conferred on him was so great that, in spite of his sin, he was still superior to all other emanated and emancipated Beings and he did not lose direct contact with God as did the rebels from the First Category 41. He managed to preserve the original faculty and power that he had received when he had been emanated 42. Because of Adam’s repentance, he was reconciled spiritually with God and thereby reinstated into the same virtues and powers that he had held over the rebels 43. However, degraded and plunged into Materiality, he no longer possessed all of the privileges that he had enjoyed in his primeval state of innocence 44. Since Adam had quitted his post, the good Spiritual Beings alone remained to ensure the supervision of the two lower Realms and to prevent the rebels from leaving their place of exile. At the same time, they had to function as intermediaries between God and Man and were required to contribute to the reconciliation and purification of humanity. 45. The story of Cain and Abel is an allegory of what happens if man does not co- operate with God. 46. Adam’s 2nd sin: Adam committed a new sin when he and Houva emerged from their first location 47. They procreated Cain in sensual frenzy, but co-operated with God in forming Abel without any sensual excess 48. Furious in having to give up his birthright as the elder son, Cain asked the Daemonic Powers to bestow on him a power that was greater than that given to God by Abel 49. Overcame with hatred, he killed Abel. The atoning blood of an innocent one, whom God had endowed with His own wisdom, sealed Adam’s second reconciliation with God 50. God transferred the gifts bestowed on Abel to another soul and Adam, with God’s approval, procreated a third son whom he named Seth 51. God Himself taught Seth through His messenger Eli (or Heli) the secret of those powers that contained and controlled the whole of Nature, both spiritual and material 52. From Seth onwards, however, humanity’s fate has been sealed forever. The plot and the personalities taking part in the drama, that has been played out here on Earth, has been determined for all Time. 53. Humanity was divided henceforth into two categories: the descendants of Cain, and the descendants of Seth. 54. Cain’s descendants were outcasts, prisoners of Materiality, skilled in gross material arts, with a poor moral sense. God kept them wandering about in spiritual darkness. When the Flood destroyed them, the accursed race was reborn as the descendants of Ham. 55. Seth’s descendants learned from their father how to worship in a manner that was agreeable to God. But they were as weak as Adam had been and, in spite of Divine interdiction, they united with the Children of Men and so they deprived themselves of all the spiritual knowledge that Seth had imparted to them. 56. Infact, the whole history of the Jewish people is nothing but a detailed account of such relapses followed by fleeting repentance and reconciliation. 57. Although they were enlightened at different times by Divine messengers, the Jews soon forgot the sublime truths that had been revealed to them. Thus, they lost all communication with God and entire generations of them fell back into darkness until the appearance of each new prophet. 58. Properly interpreted, the Bible teaches the destiny of Seth’s descendants 59. As a Spiritual Being fallen from Heaven, Man’s decadence has never been definitive 60. Man can be reintegrated into the same state in which God placed Adam after his second reconciliation, there to enjoy the same privileges accorded to Adam 61. This reintegration should become the supreme goal of humanity and we must enter the path of salvation willingly 62. God has left His creature, Man, a complete freedom of choice and He takes no part whatsoever in Secondary Causes in the universe 63. To assist us, God has restored an equilibrium by detaching from the Divine Immensity, a Major Spiritual Being to be Man’s guide, support and companion. 64. The Reconciler/Guide transmits to humanity the instructions received directly from God Himself concerning the worship we ought to render to God 65. He communicates to Men of Desire, via a spiritual operation, the gifts he has to bestow marking them with a “glyph” or seal, without which no soul can be reconciled since, without this mysterious “ordination”, we will remain souls in Deprivation without communication with God whatever our merits may be 66. This Messenger, the Repairer, is known to us as the Christ.