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“Of Errors & Truth” finally published!

By August 10, 2017No Comments

Very happy indeed to see my new baby out there at last! My translation of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin’s 1775 book “Of Errors & Truth” is now available in hardback and paperback versions on amazon.com, and already appearing on other websites and global Amazon sites.

For a fleeting moment of fame it was listed on the Amazon site as #1 in Mysticism and #2 in Freemasonry (well, who can beat a good conspiracy theory book on the Illuminati?). They have some good promotional discounts at the moment – I don’t know how long they’ll last…

This of course means I’ll be tackling his second book, published in 1782, called “Natural Table” in the near future. The books really form a pair, and his second, pre-Boehme one, expands on his thoughts in “Of Errors & Truth”.

But in the meantime, I’ve moved onto a book by Papus which has never been translated into English. This is his “Elementary Treatise on Practical Magic” (1893), which is a perfect foil to “Of Errors & Truth”, since it covers a fair amount of similar ground, but from the perspective of science one hundred years later. Again, it provides a fascinating insight into the times of the Salons de la Rose Croix, life in Paris just after the 1889 World Fair, as Parisians were getting used to the newly-built Eiffel Tower, Papus’ thoughts on the Theosophical Society (not positive!), and the medical and esoteric fads of the end of the 19th Century.

I hope to have that completed by year end. In the meantime, enjoy “Of Errors & Truth”!

Piers Vaughan

Piers Vaughan

Piers Vaughan was born in Brighton, England, and following sojourns in Germany and Switzerland, lives just outside New York City. He was educated at Brighton College, Oxford and Cranfield Universities, and holds M.A.s in Psychology and Divinity, and an M.B.A. He worked in banking for most of his life, as a Project Manager and Internal Consultant in IT and Operations, later acting as COO of a small training company based in New Jersey. He has been a Freemason most of his life, and is a member of St. John's Lodge No. 1 in New York, which was founded in 1757, and is the guardian of the George Washington Inaugural Bible. He is a 33rd Degree Mason in the Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite, and a Past Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter State of New York, Royal Arch Masons, which he currently serves as Grand Treasurer. He is also a long-standing member of a number of esoteric Orders, having helped to bring a number of these to the United States from England and France. He is also Primate of the Apostolic Church of the Golden & Rosy Cross, a descendent of the Pre-Nicene Church of Richard, Duc de Palatine. He has a particular interest in the Orders, Rituals and protagonists of 18th Century French Masonic and Esoteric Orders, and has built a reputation translating many source documents into English, and lecturing around the world on these topics.

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