DE LA MACONNERIE OCCULTE ET DE L'INITIATION HERMETIQUE [FROM OCCULT MASONRY AND HERMETIC INITIATION]
Book Details + Condition: Editions Des Cahiers Astrologiques (Nice). First Edition thus, 1947. Softcover. 183 pages. Written in the original French language. Jean-Marie Ragon was initiated at the Lodge des Amis du Nord at Bruges. He founded and presided over the celebrated Parisian lodge Les Vrais Amis, which later became Les Trinosophes, which enjoyed, thanks to him, a certain renown. He occupied the post of Worshipful Master of the lodge for many years, from 1817 onward. In this work, "the occult sciences reveal to man the mysteries of his nature, the secrets of his organization, the means to achieve his perfection and happiness. Their study was that of the Egyptian high initiations. The first goal was to pull man out of the state of barbarism to civilize him, and to take the civilized man to perfect him, in order to bring back the man who was thought to be fallen to his first nature. The second goal was to find ways to raise matter to its first nature, which was also thought to have been fallen. Thus, mystagogy or initiation to mysteries had its two divisions." Oswald Wirth said of this work, which Jean Marie Ragon published in 1853: he was "the one who projected the first clarity into the darkness of Masonic symbolism." In very good condition: Tight binding; light shelf wear to soft covers; interior is clean and free of markings.
