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The Science of the Spirits

by Éliphas Lévi

Published in Paris in 1865 as the second series of his Occult Philosophy, The Science of the Spirits is Éliphas Lévi's answer to the great spiritual fashion of his day. While turning and talking tables filled the salons of Paris, and Allan Kardec's Spiritism and the Marquis de Mirville's demonology competed to explain them, Lévi set out to return the whole question of spirits to the occult Science and to the tradition of the Church. The result is one of his most varied and personal books. This edition offers a complete English translation made directly from the French edition of 1865, in standard American English, with the solemn and scriptural registers of the original preserved. It is intended both for members of Martinist, Gnostic, Masonic, and Hermetic bodies and for scholars of Western esotericism. The apparatus includes: — a Translator's Introduction on Lévi's life, the esoteric and religious world of France before him, the plan and sources of the book, and its legacy in the occultist revival, the Martinist Order, the Gnostic Church, and English-speaking Hermeticism; — a Translator's Note on the text, scriptural quotation, forms of address, and terminology; more than eight hundred notes identifying Lévi's sources, among them the Talmud, Knorr von Rosenroth's Kabbala denudata, the apocryphal gospels, the Golden Legend, and the writers of his own century; — a bibliography of works by Lévi, primary sources, and secondary literature; an index of names and subjects.
For readers who know Lévi through Dogma and Ritual of High Magic, The Science of the Spirits shows him at his most devotional and his most polemical, joining Kabbalah, gospel legend, and Catholic apology in a single vision of the spiritual world: "the science of the spirits is nothing else, if it is rightly understood, than the science of the Gospel."

Hardcover, 464 pages

$30/ £23

Contemporary Occultism

Louis Lucas - Wronski - Eliphas Levi - Saint-Yves d'Alveydre - Mme Blavatsky by Papus

CONTEMPORARY OCCULTISM was his first book. In some forty pages it lays out the program that would occupy Gerard Encausse for the rest of his life: that the science of the age had accumulated an incomparable stock of verified facts upon foundations it could not explain, while the occult tradition had preserved the principles it could not verify in detail, and that each was therefore false taken alone. "Only by leaning the one upon the other can they give birth to the scientific, social, and religious synthesis." Around that argument Papus assembles a survey of his world. He traces the long war between the magnetizers, the spiritists, and the academies, from Mesmer through Braid to the disputes of Charcot's generation. He recovers two men he believed had been destroyed for attempting the synthesis from the side of science: the chemist Louis Lucas, whose CHIMIE NOUVELLE took him two years to find, and the mathematician Hoene Wronski, who died in near-starvation after his works were sold off by the weight of the paper. He surveys the occultists proper, from Eliphas Levi to Lacuria, Cyliani, Lenain, and Paul Christian. And he turns last to the living figures of his own Paris: Saint-Yves d'Alveydre and his Synarchy, Stanislas de Guaita, Josephin Peladan, Lady Caithness, Barlet, Dramard, and Mme Blavatsky, whose SECRET DOCTRINE was still a year from publication. Written a year before the founding of the Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose-Croix and the journal L'INITIATION, and two years before his TAROT DES BOHEMIENS, the pamphlet is a photograph of the French occult milieu taken by a young man who had not yet begun to reorganize it. The Theosophical Society is treated with entire sympathy; the Society for Psychical Research's verdict on the Mahatma letters is two years old and still raw, and Papus answers it in a single sentence that concedes the question and declines to care about it. Half the figures he names are now recoverable only through notices like this one. For readers of Martinism, esoteric Freemasonry, Theosophy, and the Western initiatic tradition, and for scholars of nineteenth-century French esotericism.

Paperback, 76 pages

$10/ £7.50

The Mission of the Jews

by Joseph Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre

In 1884 Joseph Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre (1842-1909) published Mission des Juifs, the third and largest of his Missions. He explained its title in a single sentence: since the Jews are "the witnesses of the centuries," it was before them that he wished to verify the law of human society. The book that followed is a philosophy of history on the grandest scale, and the foundational statement of the doctrine he named Synarchy. Synarchy, as Saint-Yves described it, is government by three Councils, for teaching, for justice and for the economy, beneath a spiritual Authority that is "absolutely disarmed." It is built upward from local liberties, and in France it was to rest on universal suffrage. Against it stands Nimrodism: power without authority, force acting in its own name, whether crowned in a monarchy or uncrowned in a republic. Published in 1884, the book answers the antisemitic literature of its decade by name. It holds governments, not peoples, responsible for persecution, and speaks of a restoration in Palestine on a condition entirely its own. At its theological center stands a chapter on Jesus that Saint-Yves wrote and then destroyed, leaving the task of filling the gap to a Jewish writer. This edition presents the complete and unabridged text, every passage rendered as Saint-Yves wrote it, in standard American English. The Translator's Introduction sets the book in its time. It treats Saint-Yves's sources and his debt to Fabre d'Olivet, his use of the race theories of his century and his explicit rejection of them, his refusal of every secret society, and the later history of the word "Synarchy." More than four thousand notes identify his sources, record his errors, and mark the many places where he proves right. His figures are reproduced in facsimile.

Hardcover, 714 pages

$50/ £38

The Alchemical Romance

Or the Two Kisses
by Louis Lucas

In 1887 Papus set out the figures who mattered to the occultism of his moment - Hoëné-Wroński, Éliphas Lévi, Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, Madame Blavatsky - and put Louis Lucas at the head of the list, calling this book a merveilleuse analyse occulte, sociale et philosophique sous forme de roman. He had hunted two years for a copy of Lucas's chemistry. The novel he praised has never been published in English. This is its first English edition. Le Roman alchimique, ou Les Deux Baisers appeared in Paris from Michel Lévy Frères in 1857, the year Flaubert stood trial for Madame Bovary and Baudelaire for Les Fleurs du mal. It has ten chapters, and two of them carry two-thirds of the volume: a hundred and forty-two pages of doctrine delivered across a dinner table by a former minister of Louis-Philippe, and ninety-nine more delivered by a masked woman at the Opera ball at three in the morning, to a man chiefly occupied with working out whether she is pretty. What makes the book singular is stated by Papus in a sentence: Lucas employs no symbolic term. There is no green lion here, no prima materia, no sealed vessel. There is optics, acoustics, electrochemistry and comparative anatomy, conducted in the working vocabulary of 1850 and pressed toward conclusions that vocabulary was not built to carry. A universal force he calls movement; its laws studied as the laws of the series, of which the trinitary series is the base; the soul and matter as one form at two scales; divinization as a condensation, the soul gathering a power that is everywhere available as a body gathers a charge. He denies that Pythagoras and Plato were ever seriously initiated, relocates initiation to the observatory, and expects the arcanum to be dissolved by instruments rather than guarded by initiates. Around that doctrine runs a love story that turns out to be the same argument in another language. Two sisters divided by temperament and by confession; a narrator who finds himself a man in the presence of one and a woman in the presence of the other; and two kisses, eighty-seven pages apart, the first accidental and the second demanded indoors under conditions the man specifies, because a kiss in this book is a transmission that carries the individual across.

Hardcover, 370 pages

$35/ £27

The Messianic Apodictic

A Treatise on Supreme Knowledge
by Józef Maria Hoene-Wroński

Wronski (1776-1853) was no visionary amateur. He fought in the Kościuszko Uprising at eighteen, studied in the German states, and became a mathematician of standing: the Wronskian determinant carries his name, and a commission of the Institut with Lagrange among its members reported favorably on his work. Then, at Marseille in 1803, he underwent what he described ever afterwards as the discovery of the Absolute - and spent the next fifty years deducing the whole of reality, a priori, from a single Law of Creation.
For readers in the Gnostic, Martinist and Masonic traditions it is a strange and valuable inheritance. In 1887 the young Papus, four years before founding the Martinist Order, named the five sources of contemporary occultism: Louis Lucas, Wronski, Éliphas Lévi, Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, Blavatsky. Wronski stands second, ahead of Lévi. Yet Wronski himself is frequently withering about the orders that would come to revere him. He calls the corporification of the mysteries in emblems "ridiculous apings of reason" and initiatic trials so many "degradations of man" - while at the same time giving the Cabala, the occult sciences, theurgy and goety, practical mysticism, the secret societies and Freemasonry determinate and legitimate places in a system deduced from first principles, and setting Saint-Martin and Eckartshausen at the summit of the entire history of mysticism. This translation renders the complete text of the 1876 edition, including the front matter, the author's errata (applied to the text, with each change recorded), and the Index of Tables. It is accompanied by a substantial introduction covering Wronski's life, his system, his religion, the transmission through Lévi and Papus, and how to read a genetic table; a glossary of some 300 technical terms and Wronskian coinages; a concordance to the pagination of the French; and the twenty original plates in facsimile. Wronski's own notes and those of his editor are distinguished throughout from the translator's, and nothing has been softened.

Hardcover, 754 pages

$45/ £34

The Golden Book

Revelations of the Archangel Saint Michael
by Pierre-Michel Eugène Vintras

In August 1839 an archangel began appearing to Pierre-Michel Eugène Vintras, foreman of a cardboard works at Tilly-sur-Seulles near Caen. Over the following ten months Vintras wrote down what he was told. What he wrote down was not a devotional diary. It was a system. Vintras is a name English readers meet at third hand, in Huysmans's Là-Bas and in accounts of his successor Joseph-Antoine Boullan. This volume lets him speak in his own voice, which is nothing like the fin-de-siècle legend: paratactic, breathless, unlearned, and constantly under reproach from the angel who instructs him. The translation is complete and unabridged, made page by page from the 1849 edition and checked a second time against it. Nothing is summarized or omitted. An introduction of some 8,500 words sets out the authorship of the volume - the editorial matter is the work of the abbé Alexandre Charvoz, not of Vintras - and treats the Joachimite lineage, the doctrine of preexistence, the Marian theology and its relation to the Sophia of the Gnostic traditions, the Naundorffist substrate, and the movement's later claim to have foretold the definition of the Immaculate Conception. That claim is examined on the evidence and found to fail on its own terms: the doctrine the book defends is the one Ineffabilis Deus excludes. For readers within the Gnostic churches, the Martinist orders, and the esoteric fraternities, and for scholars of nineteenth-century prophecy, millenarianism, and the origins of the modern occult revival.

Hardcover, 472 pages

$40 / £30

On the Masonic Order of Misraïm

From its creation to the present day, on its antiquity, its struggles, and its progress
by Marc Bédarride

Marc Bédarride's De l'Ordre Maçonnique de Misraïm (1845) is the foundational document of the Rite of Misraïm - one of the most esoterically ambitious of all Masonic high-degree systems, claiming ninety degrees organized across seven series and tracing its sacred lineage from Adamic prehistory through Egypt, the Solomonic Temple, the Crusades, the Italian Renaissance, and the campaigns of Napoleon's armies to the formal constitution of its French Supreme Power during the Hundred Days of 1815. Written by one of the Rite's co-founders as an act of defiant affirmation during a period of governmental suppression, the work is simultaneously a sacred history of initiatic transmission, a first-person Masonic memoir, a polemical defense against rival bodies, and a primary source document of the first order for scholars of nineteenth-century esotericism and Freemasonry. The translation is accompanied by a substantial Translator's Introduction situating the Rite historically from its Napoleonic origins through the transmission lineages of Theodor Reuss, Papus, Jean Bricaud, Constant Chevillon, and Robert Ambelain to the contemporary Free Illuminist current; and by 666 documentary footnotes identifying historical personages, classical and Masonic sources, ritual terminology, and points of historical controversy. An Afterword by PALAMAS, 33°, 90°, 96°, presents the text as operative spiritual material and offers a practitioner's method for engaging the Stations as living initiatic transmissions through the Égregore of Memphis-Misraïm.

Hardcover, 630 pages

$35 / £27

Historical Researches on the Knights Templar

Followed by the Statutes of the Order in Latin and English
by Bernard-Raymond Fabré Palaprat

Published pseudonymously in Paris as the work of "J. P......, ancien élève de l'École Polytechnique," this volume is in fact the Grand Master's own defense of the Order he founded in 1804: a history of the medieval Templars from their founding through the execution of Jacques de Molay; an account of the Order's claimed survival under the Larménius Charter of Transmission; and an extended exposition of Johannite Christian doctrine, including a public address by Fabré-Palaprat affirming the divinity of Christ against members drifting toward rationalist readings of the Gospel, four Justificatory Notes documenting the doctrine from the Lévitikon, and a seventeen-article Creed of the Primitive Christians. The volume concludes with the Statuta Commilitonum Ordinis Templi, the Order's own constitutional law, translated here from the Latin text preserved in Thory's Acta Latomorum (1815). Presented in parallel Latin and English, the thirty-four chapters govern the Order's hierarchy, elections, councils, ceremonies, and dress, including the Johannine consecration rite for the Supreme Master.

Paperback, 198 pages

$15 / £12

Fragments of the Pleroma

The Gnostic, Martinist, and Hermetic Traditions of the Apostolic Church of the Pleroma by Tau Phosphoros

Fragments of the Pleroma offers the first comprehensive introduction to the Apostolic Church of the Pleroma (ACP) and the three sacred traditions that converge within it: classical and modern Gnosticism, the Martinist path of Christian mysticism and theurgy, and the Hermetic initiatic tradition as preserved in the Order of Asiatic Architects. Written by Tau Phosphoros, Patriarch and founder of the ACP, this volume is designed to serve the serious seeker who stands at the threshold of engagement with the Gnostic tradition - beyond the merely curious, not yet within the formal formation program, and looking for a work that respects both their intelligence and the integrity of the tradition itself.

Fragments of the Pleroma will be of interest to members and clergy of Gnostic churches and esoteric orders, students of the Western Mystery Tradition, and scholars of modern Gnosticism, Martinism, and esoteric Freemasonry.

Paperback, 152 pages

$17 / £13

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A Mystic of Lyon

Jean-Baptiste Willermoz and the Secrets of Freemasonry
by Alice Joly

First published in France in 1938 and never previously translated into English, Alice Joly's Un mystique lyonnais et les secrets de la Franc-Maçonnerie (1730-1824) is the foundational scholarly biography of Jean-Baptiste Willermoz - the Lyon merchant, mystic, and Masonic reformer whose influence on the initiatic Freemasonry of the eighteenth century was as profound as it was far-reaching.

Among the major subjects treated are: the founding and development of the Order of the Élus Coëns under Martines de Pasqually; the composition and reception of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin's Des Erreurs et de la Vérité; the Convent des Gaules and the creation of the Rectified Scottish Rite; the Convent of Wilhelmsbad and the complex politics of high-grade Masonry in France and Germany; the encounter between Willermoz's circle and the movement of animal magnetism; the mystical somnambulism of the Société de la Concorde and its Unknown Agent; and the gradual dissolution of the Lyon Masonic world in the shadow of the French Revolution.

Essential reading for initiates and scholars of the Rectified Scottish Rite, the Chevaliers Bienfaisants de la Cité Sainte, the Martinist and Coën traditions, and the history of Western esotericism.

Hardcover, 548 pages

$40 / £30

Episodes of the Esoteric Life,
1780-1824:

Selections from the Unpublished Correspondence of J.-B. Willermoz, Prince Charles de Hesse-Cassel, and Some of Their Contemporaries
by Gérard van Rijnberk

In the final decades of the eighteenth century and the opening years of the nineteenth, a remarkable circle of men - high-grade Masons, Martinist initiates, mystics, and princes - conducted an extraordinary correspondence on the deepest questions of esoteric life. Episodes of the Esoteric Life, 1780-1824 gathers the most significant of those letters, most of them previously unpublished, and presents them with the commentary of a scholar who was himself an initiate of the tradition he was documenting. Gérard van Rijnberk (1875-1953) - Professor of Physiology at the University of Amsterdam, editor of the Dutch Journal of Medicine for thirty-three years, and Martinist initiate - spent decades in archives across Europe recovering the private correspondence of Jean-Baptiste Willermoz of Lyon and Prince Charles of Hesse-Cassel, together with letters exchanged among their contemporaries: Lavater, Jung-Stilling, the Count of Saint-Germain, the founder of the Asiatic Brethren, and dozens of others. First published in a limited edition of one thousand copies in 1948, the work has long been recognized within French esoteric circles as an indispensable primary source. This is its first complete translation into English.

Hardcover, 352 pages

$35 / £26

Gnosticism

Revealing the hidden light within the ancient mysteries.

Catechism of the Église Gnostique Explained
by Tau Sophronius

Drawing from the Pistis Sophia, the Bruce Codex, Valentinian and Basilidean traditions, Cathar mythos, and the esoteric Catholicism of the era, the work presents a sweeping vision of the divine, pneumatic, and hylic worlds; the hierarchies of the Pleroma; the fall and redemption of the soul; and the sacramental mysteries that guide the initiate toward liberation. At once mystical, speculative, devotional, and idiosyncratic, it reveals both the brilliance and the contradictions of early modern Gnostic thought.

$25 / £19

The Gnosis Restored: Essays from the Masters of the French Gnostic Renaissance by Doinel et al.

A landmark anthology of some the seminal texts that ignited the modern Gnostic revival. The Gnosis Restored gathers, for the first time in English, foundational writings of Jules-Benoît Stanislas Doinel du Val-Michel and his successors-Papus, Léonce-Eugène-Joseph Fabre des Essarts, Marie Chauvel de Chauvigny, Louis-Sophrone Fugairon, and Jean "Joanny" Bricaud. Meticulously translated and introduced, this collection is an indispensable resource for scholars, initiates, and seekers drawn to the living current of Gnostic, Martinist, and esoteric Masonic traditions.

$30 / £25

Levitikon

An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of the Doctrine of the Primitive Catholic Christians by Bernard-Raymond Fabré-Palaprat

Published in Paris in 1831, Bernard-Raymond Fabré-Palaprat's Levitikon is one of the most remarkable and consequential documents in the history of esoteric Christianity. At once an ecclesiastical constitution, a levitical rule, a liturgical handbook, a Gnostic Gospel, and a historical argument, it served as the foundational text of the Johannite Church of Primitive Christians - the institution through which Fabré-Palaprat, physician, former priest, and self-proclaimed Grand Master of a restored Order of the Knights Templar, sought to instantiate a vision of Christianity older, purer, and more philosophically coherent than anything Rome could offer. The present translation is the first complete scholarly rendering of the 1831 Paris edition, including all supplementary texts, the Table of Principal Subjects, and the Extract from the Supplement.

This edition will be an indispensable resource for scholars of nineteenth-century French religious history, Gnosticism, Martinism, esoteric Freemasonry, and the independent sacramental movement, as well as for practitioners within Johannite, Gnostic, and neo-Templar traditions for whom the Levitikon is not merely an historical curiosity but the charter of a living spiritual inheritance.

$40 / £30

ACP Clergy Handbook (Hardcover, Full Color) 

The ACP Clergy Handbook is an invaluable tool for Gnostic clergy in formation. It is a useful reference book for all levels of clergy, and a fascinating glimpse into Gnostic theology, exegesis, history, and liturgical practice for anyone interested in ecclesiastical Gnosticism. Included are liturgies, theurgic operations, theoretical studies, and a comprehensive outline of the entire Minor Orders curriculum. Also includes the full text of The Kybalion and the Sepher Yetzirah. This revised and enlarged 4th edition is in full color and includes additional liturgies and discourses, as well as an expanded lesson plan outline. 

$70 / £57

ACP Clergy Handbook (Paperback, Full Color)

The ACP Clergy Handbook is an invaluable tool for Gnostic clergy in formation. It is a useful reference book for all levels of clergy, and a fascinating glimpse into Gnostic theology, exegesis, history, and liturgical practice for anyone interested in ecclesiastical Gnosticism. Included are liturgies, theurgic operations, theoretical studies, and a comprehensive outline of the entire Minor Orders curriculum. Also includes the full text of The Kybalion and the Sepher Yetzirah. This revised and enlarged 4th edition is in full color and includes additional liturgies and discourses, as well as an expanded lesson plan outline.  

$55 / £42

ACP Clergy Handbook
(Paperback, B&W) 

The ACP Clergy Handbook is an invaluable tool for Gnostic clergy in formation. It is a useful reference book for all levels of clergy, and a fascinating glimpse into Gnostic theology, exegesis, history, and liturgical practice for anyone interested in ecclesiastical Gnosticism. Included are liturgies, theurgic operations, theoretical studies, and a comprehensive outline of the entire Minor Orders curriculum. Also includes the full text of The Kybalion and the Sepher Yetzirah. This revised and enlarged 4th edition includes additional liturgies and discourses, as well as an expanded lesson plan outline.

$40 / £32

Lucifer Resurrexit

A Gnostic Doctrine of the Christo-Luciferian Current
by Tau Phosphoros

For centuries the name Lucifer has been synonymous with the adversary of God - the proud angel of rebellion, the prince of darkness, the patron of left-hand path occultism in its many modern forms. Lucifer Resurrexit: A Gnostic Doctrine of the Christo-Luciferian Current argues that this identification is an historical error of profound consequence, and that the authentic meaning of the name belongs not to the adversary but to Christ himself.

Drawing on the Sethian and Valentinian traditions of the Nag Hammadi library, Lucifer Resurrexit develops the recovered Christological identification into a coherent Gnostic doctrine of the Christo-Luciferian current. The Logos - the divine creative principle incarnate in Jesus Christ - is the authentic Lucifer: the Light-Bearer who descends into the darkness of the hylic world to awaken the pneumatic spark within every human being and initiate its return to the Pleroma, the divine fullness from which it descended. The arising of the Morning Star within the heart of the practitioner - the illumination of the indwelling Logos, the theosis of the whole person through gnosis - is the goal of the initiatic life as the Gnostic tradition has always understood it.

The Morning Star has always been Christ. This book says so plainly, and follows where that saying leads.

$20 / £15

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Light Beyond Shadows
by Tau Phosphoros
and Tau Bruno II

Light Beyond Shadows is a compilation of homilies delivered by Tau Phosphoros and Tau Bruno II to the Parish of St. Ambelain from 2014 to 2018. These homilies cover significant liturgical events and themes within the Apostolic Church of the Pleroma (ACP), a Gnostic Christian tradition. Overall, this work emphasizes the balance between tradition and new revelation, the transformative power of the Holy Spirit, the importance of initiation and guided instruction, and the central role of Love and Gnosis in the Christian faith.

$30 / £23

The Pleromic Light Unveiled
by Tau Phosphoros

Tau Phosphoros, archbishop and Patriarch of the Apostolic Church of the Pleroma, examines in detail the principal liturgy of the ACP. This is both a practical manual and theoretical exegesis, giving detailed instruction for the celebration of the liturgy as well as delving into the philosophical, theological, and occult bases of this ceremony, described by Tau Phosphoros as a rite of High Theurgy. While intended primarily for ACP clergy, this work will be appreciated by all ecclesiastical Gnostics, Liberal Catholics, and those of the Independent Sacramental Movement who are looking to study the esoteric foundation of the Eucharistic Mass.

$12.50 / £9.50

ACP Lectionary for Mass (Hardcover)

The ACP Lectionary contains three complete years of full-text liturgical readings for Sundays and other select Feast Days. This lectionary is intended for use with the liturgies of the Apostolic Church of the Pleroma (included), but may be easily adapted for use within other Gnostic liturgies.

$70 / £55

ACP Lectionary for Mass (Paperback)

The ACP Lectionary contains three complete years of full-text liturgical readings for Sundays and other select Feast Days. This lectionary is intended for use with the liturgies of the Apostolic Church of the Pleroma (included), but may be easily adapted for use within other Gnostic liturgies.

$55 / £42

Abbé Julio

The prayers, visions, and healing wisdom of a modern mystic.

Liturgical Prayers

This is the second volume of the 3-part work of the influential French priest-healer of fin-de-siècle, Abbé Julio. This work contains many rare prayers, litanies, and novenas, as well as the full liturgical calendar of both the Roman Church and of Abbé Julio's Église Catholique Française, inherited from the famous French-American bishop Joseph-René Vilatte. As with the first volume, the prayers, novenas, healing operations, etc. for every possible case are well indexed. Also included are the prayers of the Mass in English and Latin, special masses, marriage and funerary rites, etc., etc.

$60 / £45

Abbé Julio: His Life, His Work, His Doctrine by Robert Ambelain

This concise work by the late bishop Robert Ambelain gives the details of the remarkable life and work of Abbé Julio, from hero of the Franco-Prussian War, to ostracized priest of the Roman Catholic Church, to priest-healer extraordinaire and archbishop metropolitan of the Église Catholique Française. In addition to the historical brief, Ambelain also gives a thoughtful exposition of the doctrine of Abbé Julio, arguing convincingly for a neo-Origenian theology. Also included are 15 of Abbé Julio's most powerful prayers, making this work not only informative, but practical. This is a great primer for anyone not familiar with Abbé Julio's life and works, and a valuable addition to the library of every current follower of the preeminent priest-healer.

$12 / £9.50

Martinism & Esoteric Freemasonry

Exploring initiatic lineages of tradition, symbolism, and light.

Spirit Builders: A Free Illuminist Approach to the Antient & Primitive Rite of Memphis+Misraïm Standard Edition (One vol. b&w)
by PALAMAS

+PALAMAS, working with his companion in the mysteries and wife, SALOME+, has merged together the two worlds of the Voudon Gnostic inspired points-chauds empowerments with the degrees of the Rites of Memphis & Misraïm in an innovative and unique system. In a single tome +PALAMAS has provided an introduction to the movement and practice of Free Illuminism and revealed an operative and spiritist ritual monitor and guide for working all 97 degrees.

$35 / £27

Degrees of Wisdom: A Compendium of Rituals from the Rites of Memphis and Misraïm (Paperback)

The Egyptian Rites of Memphis-Misraïm represent a fascinating yet often overlooked dimension of Western esoteric and Masonic traditions. This volume presents a carefully prepared English translation of rare French ritual texts, offering insights into a system that integrates Hermetic, Neoplatonic, and Kabbalistic influences within a unique initiatic framework.

$55.50 / £42

Degrees of Wisdom: A Compendium of Rituals from the Rites of Memphis and Misraïm (Hardcover)

The Egyptian Rites of Memphis-Misraïm represent a fascinating yet often overlooked dimension of Western esoteric and Masonic traditions. This volume presents a carefully prepared English translation of rare French ritual texts, offering insights into a system that integrates Hermetic, Neoplatonic, and Kabbalistic influences within a unique initiatic framework. 

$75 / £57

The Baylot Manuscript in Translation: BnF FM4 15

Tranlated, Annotated, & Introduced by Tau Phosphoros

This revised and expanded second edition of The Baylot Manuscript in Translation features full-color reproductions of all 77 folios of the original manuscript - BnF FM4 15, held at the Bibliothèque nationale de France - making the primary source directly accessible to readers for the first time. The translation has been thoroughly revised and corrected through systematic comparison with the original, with nearly 70 new annotations added to the original corpus of 296 endnotes, now converted to footnotes for ease of reference. New discoveries made during the editorial process - including previously unrecorded interlinear glosses, marginalia, and text absent from all prior transcriptions - are documented throughout.

 Drafted between the early 1750s and the late 1760s and bearing a final date of 1768, this codex of over thirty unique ritual pieces across more than seventy folios was assembled by and/or for Martinès de Pasqually, founder of the influential Ordre des Chevaliers Maçons Élus Coëns de l'Univers. The manuscript is primarily a compendium of early Scottish or écossais grades that would later form the core of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, including grades found in no other known manuscript collection. Predating the Francken Manuscript by at least fifteen years, it preserves ritual forms already lost to standardization by the time the Rite of Perfection reached maturity.

$60 / £45

History of the Foundation of the Grand Orient of France
by Claude-Antoine Thory

First published in Paris in 1812, Claude-Antoine Thory's Annales Originis Magni Galliarum Orientis is the foundational history of the Grand Orient of France - and one of the rarest books in Masonic literature. Written by a librarian to the Mother Lodge of the Philosophic Scottish Rite with unparalleled access to the archives and documents of his age, it chronicles the schism of 1772 that produced the Grand Orient, the decades of rivalry and revolutionary turbulence that followed, and the hard-won consolidation that shaped French Freemasonry into the nineteenth century.

$40 / £30

Acta Latomorum
by Claude-Antoine Thory 

Acta Latomorum, or Chronology of the History of Freemasonry by Claude-Antoine Thory is one of the foundational works of Masonic scholarship - a comprehensive record of the institution's development from its traditional origins through 1814, compiled by a senior member of the Grand Orient of France and published in Paris in 1815. This volume presents the first complete English translation of both of Thory's original volumes combined into a single work.

$35 / £27

Philosophical and Interpretive Course on the Initiations, Ancient & Modern
by Jean-Marie Ragon

Jean-Marie Ragon de Bettignies (1781-1862) - called by his contemporaries "the most learned Freemason of the nineteenth century" - delivered his Philosophical and Interpretive Course on the Initiations, Ancient and Modern as a series of lectures before the Lodge of the Trinosophes in Paris in 1818-19, repeated at the lodge's request in 1838-39, and published in 1841 with the authorization of the Grand Orient of France. Now available in English for the first time, this landmark work presents Ragon's systematic interpretation of the degrees of Freemasonry in the light of the ancient mysteries, Pythagorean number-mysticism, and the solar-astronomical philosophy of the antique sages.

$40 / £30

Masonic Orthodoxy: Followed by Occult Masonry and Hermetic Initiation by J.-M. Ragon

This classic tome on Masonic history and doctrine is available in English for the first time since its publication in 1853. This important work is often referenced by Masonic historians. Indeed, most English-speaking Masonic enthusiasts are familiar with the name of Ragon, but very few have read his principal work. Every student of Masonic and para-Masonic organizations will want this volume on their shelves.

$45 / £34

Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings by Martinès de Pasqually

This is the principal work of the founder of the Élus Coens. Written by Pasqually cir. 1772 for private dissemination among his "emulators," this work was only published in full over 125 years after his death. This peculiar biblical exegesis has both fascinated and frustrated students and researchers for years, because of Pasqually's often poor mastery of the French language (which seems not to have been his native tongue) and his unique jargon. It is strongly recommended that the student of this work procure also the work of Le Forestier, as it is of invaluable aid in the deciphering of Pasqually's doctrine.

$27 / £21

Occultist Freemasonry in the 18th Century and the Order of Élus Coens by René Le Forestier

This classic tome is considered by many to be the definitive analysis of one of the most mysterious and enigmatic, yet one of the most influential orders of esoteric Freemasonry. Le Forestier carefully examines the doctrine, rituals, and history of this theurgical order par excellence of the 18th century. This will be of particular interest not only to every student of Martinism, but also to the students of the early development of the so-called Scottish degrees in France.

$50 / £38

A New Historical Notice on Martinèsism and Martinism
by Albéric Thomas

Followed by The Secret Teachings of Martinèz Pasqualis
by Franz von Baader

First published in Paris in December 1899 as No. 5 in the Second Series of the Bibliothèque Rosicrucienne - the imprint of the Ordre Kabbalistique de la Rose-Croix - this volume appeared at the height of the French esoteric revival and amid vigorous controversy over the origins and nature of the tradition now known as Martinism. Its principal author, Alexandre-Albéric Thomas (Tau Marnès), was a bishop of the Gnostic Church, a Supérieur Inconnu of the Ordre Martiniste, active secretary of the Grande Loge Misraïmite, and secretary of the journal La Gnose. Working from primary archives never previously subjected to systematic scholarly scrutiny - the Villaréal archives of the Ordre des Élus-Coëns, the records of the Philalèthes, and documents in private hands - Thomas produced a work of meticulous historical scholarship that remains the foundational study of its subject.

Following the Notice, Baader's essay offers a philosophical and theosophical appreciation of Pasqually's doctrine of Reintegration, framing it within the christiano-theosophical tradition of Boehme and Eckhart. Together, the two texts - the historical and the philosophical - present the teaching of Martinès de Pasqually from complementary perspectives.

$20 / £15

Glimpses of Masonic History by C. W. Leadbeater 

This restored edition presents the text in its complete, unabridged form for the first time in decades. Editions published since the 1980s under titles such as Ancient Mystic Rites or Freemasonry and Its Ancient Mystic Rites removed passages and omitted many of the original plates. Here, all textual excisions have been reinstated and every plate faithfully reproduced, returning the work to the form in which Leadbeater originally issued it.

$20 / £15

Martinès de Pasqually: His life, his magical practices, his work, his disciples by Papus

This seminal work by Papus looks at the life and teachings of the founder of the Élus Coens through examinations of the personal correspondence of the master with his disciples, whom he calls "emulators." This volume makes an excellent companion to the work of Le Forestier, containing much of the source material upon which the latter relies. Papus includes as an appendix some of the catechisms of the Élus Coens, which further elucidate Pasqually's doctrine of reintegration.

$20 / £15.50

What a Master Mason Ought to Know by Papus

This classic tome is considered by many to be the definitive analysis of one of the most mysterious and enigmatic, yet one of the most influential orders of esoteric Freemasonry. Le Forestier carefully examines the doctrine, rituals, and history of this theurgical order par excellence of the 18th century. This will be of particular interest not only to every student of Martinism, but also to the students of the early development of the so-called Scottish degrees in France.

$13.50 / £10.50

Studies in Esotericism

A treasury of diverse paths into the arcane and the eternal.

Exegesis of the Soul: Three Treatises on the Nature, Origin, & Destiny of the Human Soul
by Papus

This special compilation collects three previously untranslated works by Papus: - The Human Soul Before Birth and After Death (1898) is a fascinating exegesis on the Amélineau translation of the Pistis Sophia. - How Is the Human Being Constituted? (1900) offers a thorough summary of the constituent parts of the human being: body, soul, and spirit, examining the unique function of each and how they work together to form a cohesive whole. - What Becomes of Our Dead (1914), written in the midst of the horrors of the First World War, makes a contemplative analysis of the faculties and evolution of the human soul.

$13.50 / £10.50

The Little Religions of Paris
by Jules Bois

In The Little Religions of Paris French author, journalist, and playwright Jules Bois briefly examines some of the lesser-known religious sects percolating in the environs of fin-de-siècle Paris. Originally published in 1894, this work surveys such movements as the Theosophists, the Buddhists, the Swedenborgians, and of course the Gnostics. Even included herein are the Humanist cult of sociology pioneer Auguste Comte, and the later-discredited Palladian conspiracy of Leo Taxil, as well as several other interesting groups. This small volume provides an important snapshot of religious thought in the belle époque.

$13.50 / £10.50

What Is Occultism? by Papus

Papus, in his customary succinct yet erudite style, introduces the reader to the major tenets of traditional occultism. A remarkable amount of information is packed into this little work. With chapter headings such as: Theory, Metaphysics, Logic, Moral, Aesthetics, Theodicy, Sociology, etc. This work touches upon all of the fundamentals of occult thought, including traditional history, practical occultism, and social reform. The novice will find this to be a particularly useful guide while navigating his or her studies. There is much to be found here that is normally only introduced within the traditional initiatic fraternities and societies.

$13.50 / £10.50

The Arcane Schools by John Yarker

This hardbound edition of Yarker's classic opus is not merely another facsimile edition. It has been completely reformatted, yet retains a look and feel that is comparable to the original 1909 edition, right down to the blue cloth binding and gold stamped spine. From Alchemy to Zoroaster, and everything in between, The Arcane Schools continues to be one of the most comprehensive and authoritative works concerning the history and migration of the Western Mystery Tradition. Students of Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, and Theosophy will find this to be an indispensable addition to their collection.

$31 / £24

The Philosopher's Stone: Irrefutable Proofs of its Existence by Papus

Papus, a towering figure in the French occult revival, draws upon the writings of Helvetius, Van Helmont, and Bérigard of Pisa, among others, to present a compelling case for transmutation and the unity of matter. With characteristic clarity and conviction, he explores the Stone's role as a "medicine of the three kingdoms"-mineral, vegetable, and animal-and its enduring presence in Hermetic traditions, Freemasonry, and sacred architecture.

$7 / £5.50

Esoteric Fiction

Brother of the Third Degree

by Will L. Garver

In the shadowed halls of mystic brotherhoods and ancient wisdom, Brother of the Third Degree unravels a tale of spiritual awakening, forbidden knowledge, and hidden power. When Alphonso Colono-ambitious, skeptical, and scientifically trained-is drawn into a secretive occult order, he enters a world where the veil between the material and the spiritual is thin, and initiation comes at a steep cost. Set against the political turmoil of 19th-century Europe, Garver's esoteric novel bridges science and mysticism, charting Alphonso's journey from intellectual arrogance to inner illumination. As he ascends through the mysteries of the First, Second, and Third Degrees, Alphonso confronts astral phenomena, karmic debts, and moral trials that challenge his identity and allegiance. At once a spiritual adventure, a veiled autobiography, and a philosophical manifesto, this classic of Theosophical fiction offers readers a vivid tapestry of esoteric symbolism and transformative vision. For seekers of hidden wisdom and lovers of metaphysical fiction, Brother of the Third Degree opens a portal to a world where the soul's quest transcends time-and where the highest initiation is self-mastery.

$25 / £20

The Buried Light

A novel by René Maret and Aldous Vane

Helena Arendt is a scholar without an institution. Expelled from the academy for pursuing a manuscript tradition her colleagues found inadvisable and her supervisors found alarming, she has spent three years working alone in the after-hours margins of a Boston library, assembling a grammar for something that predates every language she knows. When a package arrives at the reference desk - anonymous, addressed to her specifically, containing a reproduction she has never seen and a call number for a book she will have to find herself - the isolation ends. What follows takes her from Boston to Chicago to Frankfurt to the south of France, through rooms that have been waiting for her arrival and conversations with people who have known she was coming longer than she has. Her grandfather worked on the same material a generation before her. Whatever stopped him has been watching her since she began. The Buried Light is a novel about the kind of knowledge that institutions suppress not because it is false but because it is dangerous to the right people; about a woman who inherits a work she did not choose and chooses it anyway; about what it costs to complete what the dead could not finish, and what it is worth.

$25 / £20

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PALAMAS
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PALAMAS (1973-present) is the author of SYZYZGY: Reflections on the Monastery of the Seven Rays, SPIRIT BUILDERS: A Free Illuminist Approach to the Antient & Primitive Rites of Memphis+Misraïm, COALESCENCE: Esoteric and Philosophical Musings of a Gyrovague, ENKRATEIA: The Essence of Spirit Building, LUX OCCULTA: The Theology and Ritual of a Spiritist Chapter of Martinism & Martinèsism, SYMPATHEIA: A Liturgical Guide to Esoteric Stoicism, and The HOMEROMANTEION: A Literary & Philosophical Oracle for Stoics. An Art Teacher by vocation with a Masters in English & Creative Non-Fiction, PALAMAS lives a quiet, philosophical life with his family in the mountains of Northwest Georgia.

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Tau Phosphoros, Archbishop and Patriarch of the Apostolic Church of the Pleroma, is the author of The Apostolic Church of the Pleroma Clergy Handbook, ACP Lectionary for Mass, The Pleromic Light Unveiled, Lucifer Resurrexit: A Gnostic Doctrine of the Christo-Luciferian Current, and Fragments of the Pleroma: The Gnostic, Martinist, and Hermetic Traditions of the Apostolic Church of the Pleroma. He is also the translator of several works by Abbé Julio, Fabre des Essarts, Jean Bricaud, J.-M. Ragon, Claude-Antoine Thory, Papus, René Le Forestier, Alice Joly and others.

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Apostolic Church of the Pleroma

Rooted in the rich heritage of the French Gnostic Tradition, our community is dedicated to exploring the depths of ancient wisdom while integrating contemporary scholarship, particularly in the study of the Nag Hammadi texts. Each aspect of our practice is designed to foster a deeper understanding of Gnostic teachings, harmonizing them with the principles of Hermetic and Qabalistic gnosis that have shaped the Western Mystery Tradition.

The mission of the Apostolic Church of the Pleroma is to cultivate spiritual growth and foster a deeper connection to the divine through the exploration of Gnostic teachings. We aim to provide a welcoming space for individuals seeking to enrich their understanding of spirituality, offering resources that bridge ancient wisdom with modern insights. Our commitment to education and community encourages each member to embark on their unique spiritual journey, illuminating their path with knowledge and grace.

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Ordo Luciferis Resurgentis

The Ordo Luciferis Resurgentis is a Gnostic initiatory order working within the Christo-Luciferian current: the recognition that the name Lucifer belongs, authentically and primarily, to Christ: the bright Morning Star of 2 Peter 1:19, the Light-Bearer who is the Logos, the light that shines in the darkness and is not overcome by it.

The Order welcomes those who come from Christian Gnostic backgrounds, from the Western esoteric tradition in its various currents (Martinism, esoteric Freemasonry, the broader ceremonial tradition) and from serious independent study of the Gnostic texts. It does not require prior initiatic affiliation, but it does require genuine intellectual and spiritual seriousness.

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Pleroma Ritual Works

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