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Hidden Unity: French Esoteric Christianity and the Western Path to Non-Duality
"A rare synthesis of scholarly precision and initiatory insight... Stands as an important addition to the history of Western occultism and fills a long-standing gap in serious historical treatment of this current... Reveals how inner work, initiatory drama, and metaphysical vision shaped the Western path toward reintegration." —Mat Auryn, bestselling author of
Psychic Witch, Mastering Witchcraft, and The Psychic Art of Tarot
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France incubated a remarkably coherent esoteric Christianity. Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Christian Kabbalah, and a revived Gnostic liturgy converged around the doctrine of réintégration—the return of all beings to Divine Unity in the Logos. Moving from Martinès de Pasqually’s theurgy and Saint-Martin’s interior path to Lévi’s symbolic synthesis, Papus’s initiatory codification, and Doinel’s Eucharistic vision, this book shows how a “Christian non-duality” took public form in lodges, journals, and churches. Far from a syncretic curiosity, the French tradition offers a rigorous, historically grounded account of unity that speaks fluently with Buddhism, Vedānta, and Taoism while remaining unmistakably Christian.
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France incubated a remarkably coherent esoteric Christianity. Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Christian Kabbalah, and a revived Gnostic liturgy converged around the doctrine of réintégration—the return of all beings to Divine Unity in the Logos. Moving from Martinès de Pasqually’s theurgy and Saint-Martin’s interior path to Lévi’s symbolic synthesis, Papus’s initiatory codification, and Doinel’s Eucharistic vision, this book shows how a “Christian non-duality” took public form in lodges, journals, and churches. Far from a syncretic curiosity, the French tradition offers a rigorous, historically grounded account of unity that speaks fluently with Buddhism, Vedānta, and Taoism while remaining unmistakably Christian.
326 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 3, 2025
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