#Martinists
brief thoughts about some forgotten women of the modern occult revival

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The Occultistes
Modern occultism - especially in France - has a very masculine canon. From Swedenborg and Mesmer in the late eighteenth century, through Eliphas Lévi in the mid nineteenth century, to the Martinists a...
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March 20, 2024 at 7:49 AM
You could wander around early 19th century Europe and encounter people who were Pythagoreans and Martinists. ("Pohme" is presumably Jakob Boehme)

(This is from Joseph Wolf's memoirs - the date is 1821)
September 22, 2023 at 7:18 AM
they became just an "old boys" club but Freemasonry was *absolutely* an esoteric(obsessed with pythagoreanism and hermeticism) secret society that many orders from the Golden Dawn to Crowley and the Martinists got their start in
July 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Wonderful stuff. This is what Martinists would refer to as "desire".
February 21, 2026 at 4:07 PM
I am being distracted... all the time. Most currently by the Martinists, lol.
November 27, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Another thing (which might not be news to you): I looked into Martinism (Delville and Merrill were both martinists, as I learned in one of the Pilon letters), and this below is the seal of the Martinist Order. It doesn't shed any light on the identity of the model, but it could explain the triangle.
August 31, 2025 at 1:48 PM
You do hear a lot in our spaces. The reactionary drifts of all the Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Golden Dawners, or Martinists. People still ignore it, still pretend "we are all on the same team". The truth is, people are essentially scared shitless of conflict.
June 30, 2026 at 6:31 AM
So, now I'm reading about the Martinists and I read that Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin was a bit obsessed with Böhme. If the universe is trying to tell me something, I plan on ignoring the universe, for now, at least.
November 27, 2024 at 12:37 AM
Some of the superficiality is due to heritage from French Martinists doing reconstruction; I do however find it mildly compelling that Dee's Daughter of Fortitude reads somewhat like The Thunder: Perfect Mind.
September 18, 2024 at 12:29 AM
But let's assume he did.
How did Merrill meet her? Was it really through Delville? We know the two men socialized in 1896 while Merrill was in Brussels. We know they were both Martinists.
Did Merrill see the drawing and asked to meet the model? Or did he meet her first, then saw the drawing?
September 7, 2025 at 5:02 PM
History of a Word: Greek Origin of “Theosophy”

WHO ARE THEOSOPHISTS "A name by which many mystics at various periods of history have called themselves. The Neo-Platonists of Alexandria were Theosophists; the Alchemists and Kabbalists during the mediæval ages were likewise so called, also the…
History of a Word: Greek Origin of “Theosophy”
WHO ARE THEOSOPHISTS "A name by which many mystics at various periods of history have called themselves. The Neo-Platonists of Alexandria were Theosophists; the Alchemists and Kabbalists during the mediæval ages were likewise so called, also the Martinists, the Quietists, and other kinds of mystics, whether acting independently or incorporated in a brotherhood or society. All real lovers of divine Wisdom and Truth had, and have, a right to the name…
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August 13, 2026 at 8:06 PM
It's worth noting, despite many calling the occult heretical with respect to Christianity, that myriad prominent historical esotericists were themselves—if heterodox—Christian: Dee, Agrippa, Ficino, Paracelsus, 17th c. Rosicrucians' Lutheran magick, de Pasqually and the Martinists, Eliphas Levi, &c.
July 3, 2026 at 2:01 AM