ecosophia | Magic Monday

It's midnight, so we can proceed with a new Magic Monday. Ask me anything about occultism and I'll do my best to answer it. With certain exceptions, any question received by midnight Monday Eastern time will get an answer. Please note: Any question or comment received after then will not get an answer, and in fact will just be deleted. (I've been getting an increasing number of people trying to post after these are closed, so will have to draw a harder line than before.) If you're in a hurry, or suspect you may be the 143,916th person to ask a question, please check out the very rough version 1.0 of The Magic Monday FAQ here. Also: I will not be putting through or answering any more questions about practicing magic around children. I've answered those in simple declarative sentences in the FAQ. If you read the FAQ and don't think your question has been answered, read it again. If that doesn't help, consider remedial reading classes; yes, it really is as simple and straightforward as the FAQ says.

The picture? I'm working my way through photos of my lineage, focusing on the teachers whose work has influenced me and the teachers who influenced them in turn. I'm currently tracing my Martinist lineage, and at this point we've reached a genuine man of mystery, Jacques de Livron Joachim de la Tour de la Casa Martinez de Pasqually. Nobody knows when Martinez de Pasqually was born or where he came from; what's known about him is that he showed up in southern France in 1754, taught an extraordinarily rich system of Gnostic esoteric philosophy and practice to a circle of pupils that included Louis-Claude de St.-Martin and Jean-Baptiste Willermoz, and then sailed away to the Caribbean in 1772 and reportedly died there two years later. The image I've posted is one of the very few portraits of the man.

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Good morning/afternoon/whatever,

Hope you all had a pleasant weekend.

Funny about Martinez de Pasqually‘s name - why did he have (or choose? ;-) ) French, German (Joachim) and, presumably, Spanish elements in such a mixed up combination?

But the name made me curious… :D

Do you happen to know if any of his teachings are available in written form, in English or German? Archive.org only seems to have a French book, and I‘m afraid my French is not up to the task.

Thanks, as always, for having us over, and for patiently answering all the question. I learn a lot each week!

If you would have them, my blessings to you and to your wife, and may your week be pleasant and productive!

Milkyway

1) Nobody knows where he came from, or where he was born, or where his name came from.

2) Rose Circle Books carries his work, as well as other Martinist books:

https://rosecirclebooks.com/#

Thanks! It didn‘t occur to me that they might still be in print. :-)

Milkyway

Martinism only got a solid foothold in the English-speaking world recently, so the translations are all pretty new.

Dear JMG,

Thanks for the pictures of Dom Pasqually. I particularly think he is an extremely mysterious and interesting figure. Too bad we don't know more about his biography.
1. In your opinion, why did Martinism take so long to be studied in English-speaking countries? Was it just because the order originated in France?
2. Have you studied Pasqually's work in depth? What is your opinion regarding his cosmology and his theurgic practices?

1) The cultural barrier between English and French occultism ran deep, and didn't really start breaking down in a big way until after the Second World War. Then, in most of the English-speaking world, magic got retroactively defined as something that was invented in England between the founding of the Golden Dawn and whenever Gerald Gardner finished writing his first Book of Shadows, and hardly anything else had a place -- trad American occultism, for example, fell on very hard times.

2) I haven't studied his work yet. I'm still getting my feet under me as a fairly wet-behind-the-ears Martinist initiate, and that requires a lot of study and practice all by itself; the wider world of initiations and practices to which that is effectively the gateway is something I'll pursue in due time.

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