Volume 8 in the series “Martinism Without Secrets” is a compilation of texts. Here you find writings of Gérard Encausse (Papus), Eugène Nus, Doctor Ferran, Julien Lejay, Stanislas de Guaita and François-Charles Barlet. There is again a introductory “practical Martinist supplement”.
To start with the latter, this again concerns mostly exercises. Not my cup of tea.
The texts themselves are not too interesting either unfortunately. A lot of pages are dedicated to Theosophy, at the time of writing the texts undoubtedly new and groundbreaking, not nowadays not much so in my opinion.
We have a chapter about Theosophy specifically by Barlet and an enormous text about Sinnetts book Esoteric Buddhism by Nus. Also the text of Papus about Kabbalah is quite Theosophical. A reason to buy this compilation was the text about symbolism of Freemasonry, but “Dr. Ferran” manages to write close to nothing about Freemasonry in his text. Somewhat interesting is the final text of Stanislas de Guaita.
I appreciate the effort that the creators of these series take to make these old texts available in different languages, but not everything has the same relevance today in my opinion. The texts are also more ‘spiritual science’ type than personal growth (or whatever to call it) proper.
2022, isbn 979-8407019138
