Saint-Martin, the French Mystic, and the Story of Modern Martinism #262337

When one comes to reflect upon it, the great, many-sided Masonic adventure may be' said to stand for the whole, to express it in the world of signs, as actually and historically speaking there came a day, before the French Revolution, when it seemed about to absorb the whole. All the occult sciences, all the ready-made; evangels, all philosophies, the ever-transpiring new births in time ceased to be schemes on paper and came to be embodied in Grades.