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period <strong>of</strong> the French Revolution they lived through, and loved it at the same time,<br />

because it was for them the greatest gratification <strong>of</strong> their self-filling prophecy, the<br />

confirmation <strong>of</strong> the greatest act <strong>of</strong> Providence that ever existed. Their hatred <strong>of</strong><br />

man, however, had to be disguised as love. In fact, one has to {love to hate} in<br />

order to be a Martinist. This love and hate relationship was developed as a<br />

doctrine measured by a proportional mixture <strong>of</strong> hatred <strong>of</strong> others (pain) and selfgratification<br />

(pleasure).<br />

However, the doctrine is not presented in that form. The lure is the negation<br />

<strong>of</strong> man's degenerate condition as an animal, as a {worm}, and a desire to return to<br />

the state <strong>of</strong> bliss represented by the condition <strong>of</strong> perfection <strong>of</strong> {original man}<br />

before the fall. Saint Martin writes: "{The objective <strong>of</strong> becoming the servant <strong>of</strong><br />

God and the consoler <strong>of</strong> the universe cannot be reached unless one revives the life<br />

that was extinguished by the first crime, and purges himself <strong>of</strong> all <strong>of</strong> the secondary<br />

excrements that have been accumulated since the fall <strong>of</strong> man.}" (p. 61) Once you<br />

believe this to be the truth, you are hooked.<br />

Thus, for the initiate, the first step is to purge himself <strong>of</strong> all <strong>of</strong> the fears in<br />

the presence <strong>of</strong> pain. That is how one is made to except the wrath <strong>of</strong> the vengeful<br />

God. Secondly, the initiate must discover that all <strong>of</strong> those pains inflicted on him,<br />

or on others, are "{not ordeals but graces}" given by God for his sanctification.<br />

Note how close this is to true Christian {spiritual exercises}. The initiate is then<br />

told that this is the only means to attain a state <strong>of</strong> perfection. Saint Martin<br />

concludes that once those two classes <strong>of</strong> conditions are fulfilled, then the initiate<br />

has begun the {"regeneration <strong>of</strong> man back into his rights, and primitive virtues and<br />

titles."}, as was promoted by the founder <strong>of</strong> the Martinist order, Martinez de<br />

Pasqually.<br />

"{It is then, by your groans and your sufferings, that you attract on<br />

yourself the substance <strong>of</strong> the sacrifice, and the fire <strong>of</strong> the Lord cannot but come<br />

down upon you, and must consume both the victim and vivify the sacrificer,<br />

filling him with powerful means and continuous possibilities in order to pursue<br />

the universality <strong>of</strong> his work.}" (65)." Once the initiate suspects that there must<br />

exist such a state <strong>of</strong> perfection, since life is so terrible in its present condition, he<br />

has become a first-degree believer. Again, this is belief, not cognition.<br />

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