Martinésisme, willermozisme et martinisme a Lyon

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The words « martinesism », « willermozism » and « martinism » refer to three theosophists of the 18th century.Martines de Pasqually (1727-1774) was a mysterious character, who devoted his life to the Order of the Mason Knights which he founded. This society, which disappeared at the end of the 18th century, was not made up of mere freemasons, but of chosen priests, capable of celebrating theurgy in the temple. Martines de Pasqually taught the doctrine of reintegration, contained in his uncompleted book, Traité de la réintégration, which in a way summarizes the adventure of man in the garden of Eden.Jean-Baptiste Willermoz (1730-1824), where the term « willermozism » comes from, was a genuine Lyons bourgeois who dedicated his life to freemasonry. He met the Order of the Mason Knights in 1767 and Martines de Pasqually rapidly made him his Lyons representative.Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin (1743-1803) - where our third term « martinism » comes from - who wrote under the pseudonym of « the unknown Philosopher », discovered the mysteries of the Order of the Mason Knights in 1765. In 1774 andl775, Saint-Martin came to teach his brothers in Lyons, where he wrote his first book.In 1778 at the Gauls' convent in Lyons, Willermoz decided to reform the Templar Strict Observance into a rectified Scottish régime, where he taught the martenesist doctrine. As for Saint-Martin, the attraction of intériorisation forced him to gradually split away from the Order of the Mason Knights and to turn external theurgy into an intracardiac practice.