Saunière & Martinism # 2: “It’s only politics, so what’s that got to do with us?”

"Money will find a way"

"Wer war der Thor, wer Weiser, Bettler oder Kaiser?
Ob Arm, ob Reich, im Tode gleich."

"What luck for rulers, that men do not think." - Adolf Hitler

If the American people knew what we have done,
they would string us up from the lamp posts. - George H.W. Bush

"Nothing is straight forward when it comes to story of Rennes-Le-Château"

"It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes." - Josef Stalin

Il y a deux histoires: L'histoire officielle, mensongère, qui nous est enseignée, et l'histoire secrète où se trouvent les vraies causes des évènements, une histoire honteuse." - Honoré de Balzac

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes." - Stanley Kubrick

The Martinists...admired by the wise...feared by the tyrant...persecuted by the dictator...respected by the mystic...sought by the Seeker. Since the XVIIIth century, the Martinists have been found at the very heart and center of esotericism and mystical belief in all its various expressions. While the Martinist Order is not a secret society, rarely do individual Martinists allow themselves to be seen directly; generally, only a hint of their presence is noted. Yet always, their influence is great, and their charisma is felt by those who know. Frequently are they discussed by the uninitiated who have little knowledge or understanding of the Martinists or their abilities. Today, Martinism flourishes, and its portals are still open to the Men and Women of Desire who wish to exit the Forest of Errors and enter the Light to be found at the Gates of Mercy.

At Wilhelmsbad, near the city of Hanau in Hesse-Cassel, was held the most important Masonic Congress of the eighteenth century. It was convoked by Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick, Grand Master of the Order of Strict Observance ... there were delegates from Upper and Lower Germany, from Holland, Russia, Italy, France, and Austria; and the order of the Illuminati was represented by the Baron Von Knigge. It is not therefore surprising that the most heterogeneous opinions were expressed. A meeting was convened at Mayer Amschel Rothschild's castle in Wilhelmsbad on the 16th July 1782, where the freemasons and Illuminati forged a complete alliance.

Comte Henri de Virieu (Eques a Circulis) a Mason from the Martinist lodge at Lyon after the 1782 Masonic Congress of Wilhelmsbad and attendee at this conference, comes away visibly shaken. When questioned about the "tragic secrets" he brought back with him, he replies: "I will not confide them to you. I can only tell you that all this is very much more serious than you think. The conspiracy which is being woven is so well thought out, that it will be, so to speak, impossible for the Monarchy and the Church to escape it."

Il y a deux histoires: L'histoire officielle, mensongère, qui nous est enseignée, et l'histoire secrète où se trouvent les vraies causes des évènements, une histoire honteuse." - Honoré de Balzac

TRIA SUNT MIRABILIA, DEUS ET HOMO, MATER ET VIRGO, TRINUS ET UNUS

Synarchy is Greek for joint/harmonious rule (1+1=3), as opposed to Anarchy.

The earliest recorded use of the term "Synarchy" is attributed to an English theologian Thomas Stackhouse (1677-1752). But the most common use of the word "Synarchy" though stems from the writings of Alexandre Saint-Yves d’Alveydre (1842-1909), who used the term in his books to describe what he believed was the ideal form of government.

Synarchy as devised by St-Yves was not a purely political movement. Being a friend of kindred spirits such as Victor Hugo and Lord Bulwer-Lytton, he incorporated several specific mystical and occult ideas into the system. Saint-Yves envisioned a European synarchist empire; a government composed of three councils, representing economic power, judicial power, and scientific community of which the metaphysical chamber bound the whole structure together.

Essentially, Synarchy advocates government by secret society or, in its own terms, by an elite of enlightened initiates who rule from behind the scenes. It therefore doesn’t matter therefore much which political party holds power in a state or even what political system that state has since Synarchy can rule in any kind of state, though for obvious reasons it finds itself more at home among totalitarian regimes.

St-Yves believed in the existence of spiritually superior beings that could be contacted telepathically. His elite would be made up of people who were in communication with them. He himself claimed that he was in touch with these beings, and that they actually gave him the principles of Synarchy.

New as this all may seem at the time, Synarchy basically is very much old wine in a new bottle. Something we've all seen before: read Adam Weishaupt and the Order of Illuminati. Though Synarchy may have looked more advanced and mature, when you carefully study the aims of the Illuminati there's a lot of correspondence. It comes therefore as no surprise that St-Yves regarded the medieval Knights Templar as the ultimate Synarchists of their day.

It's crucial to consider the whole issue of Synarchism whithin the proper historial context and the time frame of St-Yves' time. Democracy wasn't really mature yet, and communism was still to be invented. It's soooo easy to be politically correct with hindsight...

Despite his continuous efforts he didn’t manage to draw much attention for his ideas from the French public at first. However, gradually St. Yves d'Alveydre became more and more influential when several occult groups and currents became interested in his beliefs. The concept of Agartha and its Masters had a big influence on the teachings of Madame Blavatsky founder of the Theosophical Society .

Then there is Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) who used Synarchy as a major influence when he developed his own ideas for his own organisation, the "Antroposofische Gesellschaft"

Another important movement which became closely associated with Synarchy was Martinism. Papus (real name Gérard Encausse), (1865-1916) who in 1884, drafted the constitution of and revived the Martinist Order “Ordre Martiniste” (1887-1891). Papus called Saint- Yves his “intellectual master” where as his "spiritual master" he claimed the mysterious magician and healer known as "le Maître Philippe de Lyon" (Philippe Nizier). It is surprising therefore, that neither of the two have ever been members of the Martinist Order themselves!

Papus had an enormous influence over the world of esoteric secret societies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Not so long after his death in 1916, Victor Blanchard, became the leader of the Martinists. In order to express his appreciation for the work of Saint-Yves d’Alveydre, he renamed the Martinist Order into Ordre Martiniste et Synarchique (1920).

So where the Martinist Order at no time was meant to be a political current, it’s undeniable that many Martinists once were drawn to the ideas of Synarchy. Nowadays the Synarchist Utopia has lost much its appeal or at least I know of no Martinists who’re still drawn to these ideas (or they simply don’t want to speak out…).

People are rather wary of politics these days and rightly so, but they are not so wary of an appeal to the romantic, spiritual and mystical. And therein lies the danger. Since the combination of occultism and politics is highly questionable in my humble opinion and has often proved being downright dangerous.

According to French Martinist expert Robert Ambelain (one of the very few genuine experts imho, considering all of the self-proclaimed journalists and researchers on the internet!) the whole idea of Martinist Synarchy had been grossly misunderstood and deliberately misinterpreted. In his "Martinism, History and Doctrine", he states the following:

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These anti-masonic reviews designated Martinism being identical with this same "Synarchy"!

In reality "Synarchy", a secret organization in the pay of trusts and high-finance, most certainly existed. But it had nothing to do with the synarchic principle of state government, which had been preached by a Martinist of the Saint-Martin line, Saint-Yves d'Alveydre!

The Martinist Order had knowingly been confused with a purely political and capitalist movement, confusing Martinists with business venturers.
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Post Scriptum:
it was long assumed that the B + S on the Saunière Bookplate stood for his initials though his full name was François Béranger Saunière.

The Ex-Libris was taken though from an early Rosicrucian book by Adrian von Mynsicht (1603-1638) a German rosicrucian alchemist (Dei Gratia Aureae Crucis Frater) known for his allegorical work Aureum Saeculum Redivivum, and published under the pseudonym Henricus Madathanus around 1625.

It is a rosicrucian rebus having a double meaning, one alchemical and the other astrological, (2 X B + S) together forming the classical fifth element or Quintessence.
The first meaning = Blut & Stein and the latter being...

Thus it’s not suprising that Saunière used this bookplate btw, but it’s highly amazing though that he knew about its existence…

Soon to follow: Novus Ordo Seclorum & Illuminati Protocols of Zion

Saunière & Martinism # 1: La Société des Indépendants ou des Intimes?

"Wer war der Thor, wer Weiser, Bettler oder Kaiser?
Ob Arm, ob Reich, im Tode gleich."

History, for a creative Martinist, then, can be almost like a plaything: a Game, in fact with a serious inner meaning. You can play with the history to reveal a greater truth. - Tobias Churton Invisibles

Of all the hoaxes, mysteries and conspiracies going around in this world, the Rennes-le-Château secret could very well be designated to be the Mother of all Mysteries.

The Martinists...admired by the wise...feared by the tyrant...persecuted by the dictator...respected by the mystic...sought by the Seeker. Since the XVIIIth century, the Martinists have been found at the very heart and center of esotericism and mystical belief in all its various expressions. While the Martinist Order is not a secret society, rarely do individual Martinists allow themselves to be seen directly; generally, only a hint of their presence is noted. Yet always, their influence is great, and their charisma is felt by those who know. Frequently are they discussed by the uninitiated who have little knowledge or understanding of the Martinists or their abilities. Today, Martinism flourishes, and its portals are still open to the Men and Women of Desire who wish to exit the Forest of Errors and enter the Light to be found at the Gates of Mercy.

Der Martinismus ist ein Resultat der Aufklärung und proklamierte, dass der göttliche Ursprung nur durch den Weg des Herzens wieder gefunden werden könne. Es ist die Suche nach dem "göttlichen Ich". Seine Anhänger wollten eine neue Weltordnung basierend auf Jesus Christus vorantreiben, die verschiedene Glaubenssysteme nicht nur tangiert, sondern auch integriert – inklusive der jüdischen Kaballa. - André Douzet - Das Grab des Christus

It’s the well known story of the Abbé Francois Béranger Saunière, who discovered “certain things” and which made him a very wealthy man.

Where one hand there’s the ones like Paul Smith who simply dismiss the whole affair as a hoax, I belong the the critical believers, who feel that there’s more to this mystery than meets the eye.

After a long study of this mystery I've found that the only constant thing of it, is that those involved invariably had something to do with rosicrucianism and or martinism. For the rest I could very well quote Goethe: "Da steh ich nun, ich armer Tor, und bin so klug als wie zuvor."

The first ones who described this phenomenon i.m.o. (links with martinism and rosicrucianism i.e.) were Guy Patton and Robin Mackness in Web of Gold. Soon to be followed by Picknett & Prince.

More specific details have been given by French author André Douzet (The tomb of Christ and Saunière’s model).

However what these authors have in common though is that they, to my best knowledge, are not Martinists themselves and therefore see these things only from a hearsay perspective (their given information as such being quite accurate nonetheless).

In the pages of the Lodge Minutes book of the Martinist Order of Lyon it says: Dans La registre de la Très Révérente Loge à l’Orient de Lyon “La Haute Philosophie”…sur la liste le présent d’honneur l’Abbé Saunière.

Where Douzet quotes the minute book of a Martinist meeting(s) which Sauniere allegedly a.o. attended on 11 May 1900, he all together avoids to produce the relevant paper and which I’d like to see for verification. Certain details which I can't reveal here, would probably give me a fairly accurate impression of its authenticity. So, if the Douzet document is authentic, it proves that Saunière was a Martinist and a very important one (présent d’honneur) at that...

His interest in Martinism b.t.w. isn't surprising since others in his cercle of friends were Martinists such as Emma Calvé. In a document made in Paris on November 11th, 1892, at the cabaret "Chat Noir", we can see the signature of Emma Calve just before the sign of S:.I:., Supérieur Inconnu; the third degree of the Martinist Order.

Ignorami sometimes claim that his adherence is without any evidence whatsoever. Still subscribing to the romantic but completely false idea that if you’re just interested, you could simply go to and attend a Martinist meeting, by stating that it would interest you. Well: No Way!

No one, not him/her self duly initiated, will ever find his way into a Martinist heptad!I can guarantee that!

Where Saunière's Martinist adherence doesn't necessarily solve the mystery, it at least points us somewhat in the right direction.

Where even as a martinist myself, I find it rather difficult to properly define martinism so that no doubt is left to the intended meaning. Therefore in a previous post: Dialogues avec un Serviteur Inconnu... I've made an attempt by quoting several people/scholars who've shone their light on this mysterious subject. Since the romantic perception that it's simply Christian Mysticism, well I just don't find this view satisfactory. I rather support the idea of Charles Barlet who once stated that martinism was "a circle whose circumference was everywhere and the centre nowhere." This much better expresses the apparent discrepancies that seem to exist in martinism.

Dear gentle readers, soon I'll be returning to the Rennes-le-Château story, discussing some of the seemingly incongruent ideas which you'll find within martinism, such as synarchy, monarchy, and the bizarre movement of Naundorffism... or to quote Prof. Karl R. H. Frick: Man könnte ebenso die Quadratur des Kreises versuchen, um die widersprüchlichen Lehren des Martinismus im 19. Und 20. Jahrhundert in völlige Kongruenz zu überführen.

NAUNDORF: The lost King of France or just an other Imposter?

Where Louis Claude de Saint-Martin could hardly be called a royalist himself, only read his works “Lettre à un ami, ou Considérations philosophiques et religieuses sur la révolution française” & Le crocodile (1799) or the excellent paper The Crocodile Strikes Back: Saint-Martin's Interpretation of the French Revolution by Dr. Fabienne Moore, many of his followers were! They were monarchist or even worse Naundorffist.

Many French martinists believed Karl Wilhelm Naundorff's claims to the French throne. They joined the Synarchy movement and formed the Ordre Martiniste et Synarchie (OMS).

Karl Wilhelm Naundorff, was buried in 1845 in the Dutch town of Delft with the epitaph: "Here lies Louis XVII, King of France." DNA analysis later disproved his claim though.

Lot’s of indications show us that Saunière supported Naundorff from 1891 as did two Popes, Leon XIII and Benoit XV. However there was no real proof of the identity of Naundorff, only assumptions. (Well hell, as a martinist, you ought to know that one should NEVER ASSUME ANYTHING)

By the time of his death, Naundorff was recognized by many including the Dutch government as Louis XVII and, thus, the heir to the French throne – but, alas, not by his own country of France.

Naundorffism has always flabbergasted me. I’ve always found it very difficult to believe, that this German watch- and clockmaker who hardly knew any French could possibly have been Prince Louis Charles (Louis XVII).

Nevertheless the Naundorffists did and even now some still believe this. So where Naundorffism, was never ever a part of martinism, a considerable number of martinists were staunch Naundorffists. "Il nous a été révélé que le destin de la renaissance européenne était attaché à la restauration de la monarchie française et que la branche directe des descendants de Louis XVI appelée Naundorff était élue par Dieu.”

In 1998 Belgian genetics professor J.J. Cassiman of the Leuven University) conclusively proved by means of DNA testing that Karl Wilhelm Naundorff was not a descendent of the Bourbons and therefore most definitely not Louis XVII. Dr. Cassiman and his associates compared DNA material taken from Mr. Naundorff's body with hair of the queen and two of her sisters that was found in lockets that had belonged to their mother. They found no matches.

But Naundorff's descendants do not give up though. Website for Naundorff, whose family is still trying to press through his claims that he’s the Lost king of France: http://www.louis-XVII.com

In 2004 Cassiman announced that tests conducted on the heart of the boy who died in prison proved once and for all that he was, in fact, Marie Antoinette’s son and Prince Louis Charles (Louis XVII).

The Rosicrucian Chronicles of Pater Cathare...

Met wat over de Rozekruisers te lezen is, kon ik niets beginnen. Ik moest mijn eigen geschiedenis over de Rozekruisers schrijven. Dat duurde lang – en ik heb vaak gedacht dat het maar beter zou zijn om de hele rommel te laten voor wat hij is...- Will-Erich Peuckert

"Il y a deux histoires: L'histoire officielle, mensongère, qui nous est enseignée, et l'histoire secrète où se trouvent les vraies causes des évènements, une histoire honteuse." - Honoré de Balzac

Le mystère de la Rose-Croix n'a pas encore été percé. La légende se mêle étroitement à la vérité historique... L'Ordre de la Rose-Croix est une confrérie de savants, d'alchimistes et de chercheurs en ésotérisme qui se manifesta au XVIIe siècle. Les adeptes étaient liés d'une manière très informelle, mais la légende qui les entourait fut et reste très prenante.

The Rose-Croix is one of the manifestations of the Providence of God.

The Order of the Crucians
relies not on outward weapons,
but on the Word of God and tongues of fire!




MAGNA EST VERITAS...

Benedictus Dominus Deus noster, qui dedit nobis signum…

The Fool living in the Forest or Errors, who embarks upon the Promethean and thankless task of trying to reconstruct the Corpus Rosicrucianum, is faced with sheer unabridgeable problems.
The number of books written by so-called rosicrucian writers to solve the mysteries, secrets and riddles of these invisible ones could well fill a library.
But in the end they all appear to be based on the very few standard works, which in their present form are neither agreed upon nor shed a great deal of light on their real mysteries, and in the end raising more questions than answering them. Forlorn Hope! Project Mayhem!
In fact they're all parroting earlier writers, due a lack of factual information. I've put this to the test, by posting some crackpot theories in so-called rosicrucian forums, which were, very soon reiterated by the followers and presented by these ignorami as the ultimate rosicrucian truth!
"Da steh' ich nun, ich armer Tor! Und bin so klug als wie zu vor".

Most and very prominent scholars have agreed upon the rosicrucian enlightenment to commence by the dawn of the seventeenth century, very conveniently and (un)intentionally ignoring some very pressing facts.

The truth is however that Rosicrucian wisdom has existed since the Atlantean times, but it only became known by this name in the fifteenth century. History tells us very little about the real Rosicrucians because in the past it was required of initiates that they work quietly, whilst living ordinary lives. The lessons learned from the burning of the Cathars and the destruction of the Templar Order had been well learned.

L'Ordre des Frères c.q. Rose + Croix d'Orient was founded in 1054 by Michael Psellus, great scholar of Constantinople and modelled in 1090 in Constantinople under the patronage of emperor Alexius Comnenus. The full title of the Order was "Order of the Knights and Brethren of St. John the Evangelist from Asia in Europe."
The Order of the Unknown Philosophers was said to be descended from L'Ordre des Frères d'Orient. This Order was reputed to have included such luminaires as; Heinrich Khunrath, Alexander Sethon, Sendivogius, Jacob Böhme and Rudolph Salzmann. who was initiated in the Elus Cohens. Rudolph Salzmann initiated Louis Claude de Saint-Martin in 1788 in the Sociéte des Philosophes Inconnus.

In 1629 when the rosicrucian craze was at its zenith, French historian the Abbé of Gisors, Robert Denyau, explicitly stated that the rosicrucians were founded A.D. 1188 by Jean de Gisors.
The first public announcement of anything close to a rosicrucian order is the story of Omnis Moriar in 1115. A very similar Swedish legend avers that eighty-one Rose Cross brothers came from the Orient between 1118 and 1188 under the care of Garimont, Patriarch of Jerusalem. The allegedly went to the Archbiship of Upsal, where they entombed the Corpus Rosicrucianum in a marble tomb, placed in a subtrerranean vault.

Jacques-Etienne Marconis de Nègre ‘Le Sanctuaire de Memphis’1849 : En 1150, quatre-vingt-un d’entre eux arrivèrent en Suède, sous la conduite de Garimont, et se présentèrent à l’archevêque d’Upsal ( Upsala ), qui reçut d’eux le dépôt des connaissances maçonniques. Ce furent ces quatre-vingt-un Maçons qui établirent la Maçonnerie en Europe.

And according to its own statutes the "Ordre des Frères Aînés de la Rose + Croix", was founded on 2 December 1316 by Guy de Montanor, Gaston de la Pierre Phoebus, Pierre le Bon de Lombardie and Richard l'Anglois. Shrouded in "nuit et brouillard" Les Gouliards, the medieval clerks and print-makers whose mystical and heretical watermarks so fascinated Harold Bayley, are also pointed in this direction.

Another source testifies that subsequent to the battle of Bannockburn, Bruce and the St. Anthony Templars founded the new Order of the Elder Brothers of the Rose Cross in 1317 --- from which the Kings of Scots became the hereditary Grand masters, with each successive Stewart King holding the title of "Prince Saint Germain".

René Guénon thinks that the "true origin of Rosicrucianism are the Orders of Knights, who in the Middle Ages, forged true intellectual links between the East and the West".
Others again consider the Fede Santa a.k.a. Fedeli d'Amore (Faithful of Love) as the precursors or even the instigators of the rosicrucian movement. It is obvious that Dante, who was one of their leaders, immersed his Divina Comedia with templar and rosicrucian symbolism. The Fede Santa wrote their papers in a coded language (parlar cruz), language of love (hence the name Fedeli d'Amore) to obscure it for "la gente grossa". In their texts the word Rose really means Fede Santa and Love corresponds with their ideals and philosophy. The Court of Love was their Temple. Woman equalled Intelligence, Lover = initiate, fool = wise. We find allusions to a widow who is no widow, the Madonna Intelligenza. It is thought that de Fedeli d' Amore was an outgrowth of a confederation of the Ismaili Sect of the Faithful Ones of Love having connections with the Knights Templar.
Hole Roman Emperor Frederick II was a member too, so it is not surprising that he was excommunicated twice!

Regrettably very little reliable information on this secret society is available in the English medium.

While living in Europe, Francis Bacon was initiated into the mysterious Order of the Knights Templars and learnt a very special secret. Before he returned to London, he travelled to France, Italy, Germany and Spain and at the age of 20 completely devoted himself to the study of law. From his understanding of the secret information he had learned during his initiation into the Knights Templar, he conceived the idea of reactivating various Secret Societies and in 1580 founded the secret Rosicrosse Literary Society in Gray’s Inn. Later in the same year, he founded the Lodge of Free and Accepted or Speculative Masons, also at Gray’s Inn.

Simon Studion (1543- ), who founded the Militia Crucifera Evangelica in 1598 at Nuremberg, continued the work of Joachim de Flore and Paracelsus ; and the "Chemical Wedding" of Andreae continued the thread from the thoughts and work of Studion. It was out of the work of Studion and his Societas Cruce Signati (those marked by the cross), that the Tubingen Circle with Andreae and his friends, the renewed Order of the Rosicrucians grew and evolved.
Simon Studion author of the Naometria, claims that the Militia Crucifera Evangelica were the true source of the Rosicrucians and it indeed appears that one of the earlier titles used by the Rosicrucians was Militia Crucifera Evangelica.
In 1555 the seer Nostradamus fortold the externalization of the rosicrucians in century III 67 which is often and i.m.h.o. wrongly associated with Hitler:

Vne nouuelle secte de Philosophes,
Mesprisant mort, or, honneurs et richesses:
Des monts Germanins ne seront limitrophes,
A les ensuyure auront appuy & presses

Of course this was no big deal for Nostradamus since he and secretly so, was the (acting) head (Nautonnier) of the Prieuré de Sion (Ordre de la Rose + Croix Veritas). : " Mais ce n'est qu'en 1556 que, devenant Grand Maître de l'ordre, ce grand secret luit fut confié… C'est à Turin, que Nostradamus est initié au grand secret des temps à venir… "

The first known historical reference to a Rosicrucian Fraternity with a head called Imperator appears in a treatise: Compendium totius philosophae et alchymiae Fraternitatis Roseae Crucis, ex mandato Serenissimi Comitis Falkenstein, imperatoris nostri, anno Domini MDLXXX.

POST CXX ANNOS PATEBO A.D. 1604 (1484 + 120 = 1604)They asserted that their laws had been found inscribed in a golden book in the tomb of Rosencreuz, and that the required six times twenty years from his death expired in 1604. They were consequently called upon, from that time forth, to promulgate their doctrine for the welfare of mankind.

1604: this is indeed a very convenient date to agree upon, because it frees the scholar of the inoperable task of delving much further into the mysterious and secretive vaults of ancient rosicrucian history. One Rosicrucian Confraternity even had the audacity to rewrite its own history.
In a awkward attempt to anticipate further unsettling questions they have united the Mystery of Rennes-le-Château with the itinerarium of their alleged imperator (Achessel = HSL). Esotérisme de Supermaché!

Pater Cathare is b.t.w. of the opinion that there does actually exist a link to this unsolved mystery, but brothers eh pardon me fratres, certainly not in this way, and definitely not in this manner!
There is a document, authenticated by a notary, which shows that Saunière attended a Martinist meeting in Lyons on May 11, 1900. His lodgings were two doors away from that of Joanny Bricaud a prominent Martinist. Bricaud (aged 18) met Papus and joined his Martinist Order in 1899, one year before Saunière’s documented attendance. In the pages of the Lodge Minutes book of the Martinist Order of Lyon it says:
Dans la registre de la Très Révérente Loge Martiniste à l'Orient de Lyon, "La Haute Philosophie"... et sur la liste le présent "d'honneur": L'Abbé Saunière.

ET IN ARCADIA EGO...

Many have denied the existence of such a personage as Rosencreuz, and have fixed the origin of this sect at a much later epoch. The first dawning of it, they say, is to be found in the theories of Paracelcus and the reveries of Dr. John Dee, who without intending it, became the actual, though never recognised founder of the rosicrucian philosophy. Others assert this Rosaecrucius was alive and well under the name of Roesgen von Germelshausen.

At any rate, the story of his life, published in the manifestos, gave the name and the ideals of rosicrucianism the most comprehensive airing of any "secret society" in history.

...ET PREVALEBIT


End of Chronicle # 1