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The Mystical Lineage of the Later Transmission (Antiquity → Belle Époque → South America)
Contents — 7 chapters
- Thesis: an initiatic chain from antiquity to the modern synthesis
- Antique foundations: number, emanation, and the afflictive thoughts
- Medieval and Renaissance currents: Kabbalah, Rhineland mysticism, Hermetic revival
- The Belle Époque matrix: Martinism and the French occult revival
- The South American bridge: the Costet de Mascheville family
- The asserted mentorship circle: Buenos Aires, 1950–1956
- Operationalization: from visionary trance to the 1971 synthesis
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Belle-Époque occult revival (Papus, L'Initiation, 1888)Fin-de-siècle French esotericism · late 19th c. CEparallels · medium
Read the original · iapsop ↗Martinez de PasquallyMartinism / Élus Coëns · c. 1727–1774 CEgrounds · high
Read the original · archive.org ↗PlotinusNeoplatonism · 204–270 CEgrounds · high
“This is the life of the gods and of godlike and blessed men, a liberation from the alien that besets us here, a life taking no pleasure in the things of earth, a flight of the alone to the Alone.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— Enneads VI.9.11, trans. Stephen MacKenna
Pseudo-Dionysius the AreopagiteChristian apophatic theology · late 5th–early 6th c. CEderives-motif-from · asserted
“Guide us to that topmost height of mystic lore which exceedeth light and more than exceedeth knowledge, where the simple, absolute, and unchangeable mysteries of heavenly Truth lie hidden in the dazzling obscurity of the secret Silence.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— The Mystical Theology, ch. 1, trans. C. E. Rolt (1920)
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinModern process/evolutionary theology · 1881–1955 CEderives-motif-from · asserted
“L'homme n'est rien d'autre que l'évolution devenue consciente d'elle-même.”Read the original · archive.org ↗— Le Phénomène humain (1955), conclusion — 'Man is nothing else than evolution become conscious of itself.'