About - Rose Circle Books

Founder & publisher

Piers A. Vaughan

Author and translator of Masonic and esoteric works

Piers A. Vaughan is an author and translator of Masonic and esoteric works, particularly from 18th and 19th Century France. In his translations he hopes to bring important works to the attention of the English-speaking world.

He was born in Brighton, England, and attended Brighton College, Oxford and Cranfield Universities. He was an avid musician, singing in a local church, playing several instruments, conducting and composing; he was also a keen fencer, and enjoyed appearing in local plays. He even appeared as an extra in ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Quadrophenia’!

He has an MA in Psychology, an MBA in Business Studies and an MA in Divinity. He has worked for a number of banks, including Midland, HSBC and Deutsche Bank, living in several countries, moving to the USA in the early 1990s.

His Masonic membership began in England in 1979, and he joined a number of Orders before joining St. John’s Lodge No. 1 in New York. He has traveled extensively across the USA and in many countries abroad giving lectures on a number of topics, ranging from history to talks on the symbols and esotericism of Masonry. An interest in 18th Century French Masonic Ritual led him to translate a number of important treatises and rituals into English.

He is also very involved in a number of Orders outside of Freemasonry, predominantly ones which have an esoteric background, and is also the head of a church descended from the Pre-Nicene Church of Richard, Duc de Palatine.

He is a member of The Authors Guild.

Books by Piers A. Vaughan

Contemporary voices

Authors & translators

The writers, scholars and translators whose work appears under the Rose Circle imprint.

M.R. Osborne

Author & Translator

Michael Robert Osborne is an English writer, translator and practising solicitor whose work explores Christian mysticism, Western esotericism and philosophical alchemy. A graduate in Theology of the University of Birmingham, he is best known for his English editions of the eighteenth-century Élus Coëns manuscripts published by Rose Circle. He is Director of Studies for Pythagoras College of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, and received the SRIA’s Companion of Christian Rosenkreutz Prize in 2018.

Rosicrucian Death
Martinez de Pasqually and the Office of the Holy Spirit
Son of Perdition
The Brazen Serpent
Allegory in Stone
The De Grainville Manuscripts
The Lessons of Lyon
What We Have Been, What We Are and What We Will Become
The Most Holy Trinosophia

Martinez de Pasqually and the Office of the Holy Spirit

What We Have Been, What We Are and What We Will Become

Rémi Boyer

Author

Rémi Boyer is a French writer and lecturer on the initiatory traditions and the philosophies of awakening. With Robert Amadou he co-founded the review L’Esprit des Choses, devoted to Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, Martinism and Freemasonry, which he has edited since 1992. The author of more than twenty books on Western initiatory movements, he lectures and leads seminars throughout Europe.

Secret Classes & Reintegration
The Way Without Masters
From the Doctrine of Reintegration to the Imago Templi
Freemasonry as a Way of Awakening
Martinism as a Way of Awakening
Beneath the Veil of Elias Artista

From the Doctrine of Reintegration to the Imago Templi

Michael Sanborn

Translator

A book designer and translator specialising in contemporary European esoteric writing, Michael Sanborn practises within several traditions, including Neoplatonism and Templarism. He has brought a series of Rémi Boyer’s works into English for Rose Circle.

Stewart Clelland

Translator

Stewart Clelland teaches Philosophy and Religious Studies in the North East of Scotland. He holds a Master’s in Western Esotericism, is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, and is the author of The Master’s Voice, on the letters and ritual of Martinez de Pasqually.

Dr. Matt D.A. Fletcher

Foreword

An orthopaedic surgeon in rural Canada and a Freemason of nearly thirty years, Dr. Fletcher is Director-General of Studies for the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia and holds senior office in several Martinist orders. He has published or presented more than 350 academic and esoteric papers.

Ike Baker

Audiobook Narrator

Ike Baker is an author, lecturer and practising ceremonialist, a senior initiate of the Martinist Order of America and host of the ARCANVM channel and podcast. He is the author of A Formless Fire and Aetheric Magic, and narrated the audiobook of Pasqually’s Treatise on the Reintegration of Beings.

Lima de Freitas

Co-author

José de Lima de Freitas (1927–1998) was a Portuguese painter, illustrator and writer, known for his tile panels of Lisbon’s myths and legends at Rossio Station and a lifelong engagement with symbolism and esoteric thought.

John Gilbert

Author

Author of Not as Above, Not as Below and Magical Bladesmithing.

Sylvie Boyer-Camaz

Co-author

Co-author, with Rémi Boyer, of The Way Without Masters.

Tony Hutchins

Preface

Wrote the preface to M.R. Osborne’s Son of Perdition: The Magic and Hubris of Simon Magus.

In translation

Classic authors

Foundational texts of the French esoteric revival, many available in English for the first time.

Martinez de Pasqually

c. 1727–1774 · Founder of the Order of Élus Coëns

Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin

1743–1803 · “The Unknown Philosopher”

Papus

Gérard Encausse, 1865–1916 · Co-founder of the Martinist Order

Martinezism, Willermozism, Martinism & Freemasonry

Éliphas Lévi

Alphonse Louis Constant, 1810–1875

Pierre Fournié

Élu Coën and disciple of Martinez de Pasqually

Lazare Lenain

Nineteenth-century French Kabbalist

Pierre André de Grainville

Eighteenth-century Élus Coëns manuscripts

The press and its authors