As Lições de Lyon para os cavaleiros maçons Eleitos Coëns do universo um curso martinista no século XVIII (1774-1776)

Abstract

In the French city of Lyon, for three years (1774 to 1776), three personalities of first importance (Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, Jean-Jacques Duroy d’Hauterive and Jean-Baptiste Willermoz) taught other initiates and members of the Order of the Masonic Knights Elect Coëns theosophy and the theurgy of their master and great sovereign Martinès de Pasqually. What were these teachings? What theurgy is that? What did this Order, which still has its adherents today, intend? This article aims to understand what the Lyon lessons are and what they mean, using the original manuscripts of the time. We retrace the history and clarify the Martinist and Martinist thought, as a Masonic current of Jewish-Christian mysticism that arose in the 18th century.