Heh (ה) - The Fall, Loss of the Light - Between two worlds This is the fifth in a series of essays where I go through each chapter of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin’s “Natural Table”. You can find the previous chapter here. In this chapter Saint-Martin outlines...

Continuing my chapter-by-chapter discussion of Saint-Martin's "Natural Table". From the dizzying heights of previous chapters, we reach the Fall:
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Very proud to be able to share my first contribution to the Pansophers blog 🙂
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Drawing the Martinist Pantacle is a spiritual exercise in itself, where you involve yourself directly in the Creation myths of their systems.

Daleth (ד) - Man emanated from God - Between two worlds This is the fourth in a series of essays exploring the book “Natural Table” by Louis Claude de Saint-Martin. I am stepping through the book chapter by chapter, with the hope that I can help explain so...

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On the meaning of emanation, and a challenge for how we live our lives. Are you reaching up to the Divine, or are you lots and passive in the bonds of materiality?

Writing up my notes for the fourth chapter of Saint-Martin's "Natural Table". Hope to have something published during the weekend.

Gimel – Man, visible sign of God - Between two worlds This is the third part of a series discussing, chapter by chapter, the book, "Natural Table" by Louis Claude de Saint-Martin. The first in the series can be found here, and the previous article is her...

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We are the thoughts and words of God in the darkness of materiality.
Chapter 3 of "Natural Table".

My little project of commenting on each chapter of Saint-Martin's "Natural Table" is really helping me understand a book I've already read. Being forced to go slow and take notes has uncovered so much. Seeing his development away from his former master (Pasqually) is very enlightening.

Beth – Disorder in Creation - Between two worlds This is the second in a series of essays on Louis Claude de Saint-Martin's book, "Natural Table of the Relationships which exist between God, Man and the Universe". The series begins here. A world of ...

In the second chapter of his book, The Natural Table, Saint-Martin describes his theory on the origin of corruption and disorder.
I discuss it here: www.avidha-wa.net/beth-disorde...

Wonderful stuff. This is what Martinists would refer to as "desire".

Aleph – Truth is in Man - Between two worlds This is the first entry in a series where I will be going through Louis Claude de Saint-Martin's book, "Natural Table of the Relationships which exist between God, Man and the Universe". In this post,...

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This is the first part of a series of essays on Saint-Martin's "Natural Table".
It surprised me how much of his philosophy can already be seen in the first chapter!

Thanks. It took some time, but I am almost there.
Just keep placing the blocks back on top of one another. One at a time, and emphasise progress not speed.

Healthy food. Exercise. Spiritual practice. Done consistently, these three pillars provide me with complete fulfillment. (I am rebuilding after a depressive episode)

As a Martinist I aim to be unknown. Not just in a pseudo-heroic sense of doing good without pride, but to realise the Self is nothing. To be invisible to the universe itself.

Each meeting with the self reveals its flaws. Beauty is always found in its elimination. The self is an illusion given to us by the greater illusion that is the world of appearances.

The right amount of noise - Between two worlds The following was inspired by a video published on Youtube by KrKwd. Humans like linear thinking. If you tell someone a vehicle is moving at 50 m/s and ask them how far it will go in 1 minute, most pe...

Adding noise to your spiritual work may help you hear the Will of the Real.
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I'm not so sure the most important question is, "Why is there something rather than nothing?"
Instead ask, "What am I?" Or, even better, "Who asks?"

God is not always in the blinding white of the Sun. Sometimes God is to be found in the play of light and shade.

Drawing the Martinist Pantacle - Between two worlds The Martinist Pantacle is the image you see at the top-left of this page, right beside "Between Two Worlds". It comes in various colours depending on the circumstances, the grade being represented, an...

Drawing a symbol can be more than just drawing. It can be a fundamental part of the symbol itself, and so add a level of meaning you never quite recognised consciously. The Martinist pentacle is a great example of this.
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"A person praying resembles a desert striving to become a meadow full of flowers and, furthermore, he does not demand -- he beseeches"
-- Constant Chevillon (Tau Harmonius)

When to accept a candidate? When to let them progress? - Between two worlds For many good reasons Masonic lodges and other similar initiatory systems take great care in who they welcome into their group. Accepting an application from the wrong person can clearly lead to great...

The question of who to admit to an initiatory order like a Masonic lodge, and how fast to progress them is discussed by Saint Martin in his "Ten Instructions to Men of Desire".

I have written about it here: www.avidha-wa.net/when-to-acce...

Very nice essay by the way. Thank you for sharing.

Every conception of Heaven that was given to me by well-meaning parishioners in the dogmatic church of my youth _always_ reflected the personality of the person explaining it. Always.
A golden shopping mall is a new one though :-)

The Creation Myth of Saint Martin - Between two worlds "Ten Instructions to Men of Desire", is a series of lectures by Louis Claude de Saint Martin. On the face of it, they are his interpretation of the cosmology put forward by Martinez de Pasqually in hi...

The Creation Myth put forward by a Mystic is an important insight into their worldview and spirituality. Here I try to summarise that of Louis Claude de Saint Martin in his "Ten Instructions to Men of Desire":
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The world needs more initiatory experiences. More ceremonies that separate life into before and after.

Amen

Electromagnetism and the nature of the All - Between two worlds During my spiritual awakening I had a realization that there was a connection between basic electromagnetism and some ideas I was starting to formulate about the possible existence of God. The key was...

The Laws of the material world point at spiritual realities:
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The Lessons of the Real World - Between two worlds Pasqually's Treatise describes how the actions of the first spirits created by God had consequences that can only be described as catastrophic on a cosmic scale. The entirety of the subsequent history...

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This time I consider the First Fall, and the actions that the Divine took leading up to that event and in response to it.

I try to derive some lessons from Pasqually's myth, and to find a way to apply it to day-to-day spirituality.

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The tragic need to Fall to be Redeemed. Spiritual progress can only be made by Falling. Standing still is not an option.

Pasqually's understanding of the myth of Cain and Abel.

God must be as much in constant morning as in constant joy.

Yes, for sure. I think of the dream state as being absent of some filter, therefore allowing me to construct a symbolic image that I can carry into the waking world. The waking state has a strong filter that prevents this, thereby depriving me of the imagery.

Something about the dream state allowed the vision to be something I could see and sketch when I woke up. This is different from Divine encounters that have happened when in a waking state which are much less visual and describable.