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Biographie 1833
BOEHM (JACOB), chef de la secte des Boehmistes, espèce d'illuminés, né en 1575, mort en
1624. On a de lui plusieurs ouvrages tels que l’aurore naissante, les trois principes; la triple
vie, imp. à Amsterdam, 1682 et 1730, in-8, sous le titre de Theosophia revelata trad. en
français par le Philosophe inconnu (de Saint-Martin). Sa vie a été publiée en allemand par
Franckenberg (voir ce nom).
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John Gorton 1833
ST MARTIN (Louis Claude de) a visionary of the last century, who styled himself " Le
Philosophe inconnu." He was born of a noble family, at Amboise, in 1743. Having received a
collegiate education to qualify him for the magistracy, he preferred entering into the army, for
the sake of applying himself to study in the intervals of military duty. While a subaltern in
garrison at Bordeaux, he became a follower of Martinez Pasqualis, founder of the sect of
Martinists, whose school, after the death of their leader in 1779, was transferred to Lyons,
where St Martin published his work " Des Erreurs et de la Vérité, ou les Hommes rappelés au
Principe universel de la Science," 8 volumes. This was followed by a number of other
publications, including translations of many of the productions of Jacob Boehmen, of whom
he was a great admirer. He quitted the army, that he might be at liberty to prosecute his
favourite studies, and travelled, like Pythagoras, in search of knowledge. In 1787 he visited
England, and the following year he went to Italy, with the Russian prince Alexis Galitzin,
whom he made a convert to his opinions. On his return to France he received the cross of St
Louis, in reward of his military services ; but the Revolution shortly after deprived him of this
as well as his other aristocratic privileges. In other respect he was but little affected by the
political changes which he witnessed, continuing his philosophical speculations till the close
of his life, he died of apoplexy, October 13, 1803. — Biographie nouvelle des contemporains;
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