New Book on the Elus Cohen Rituals

I was absolutely delighted to see my friend Bro. Mathieu G. Ravignat’s new book on the Elus Cohen published towards the end of last month. It is currently available on Amazon.

Bro. Mat does have the distinct advantage of living in Quebec and being bilingual, which means he can read ten books in French at the time it takes me to read one! No doubt this helps him review the enormous amount of written and manuscript material now available on the subject of Pasqually’s mysterious theurgical Masonic Order, the Masonic Elect Cohen Knights of the Universe.

Given the lack of true rituals available to us, Robert Ambelain undertook to recreate them to the best of his ability back in the late 1930s. However, he had access to far fewer documents than we now collectively possess, and much of his recreations had to rely on the magic of grimoires and Kabbalistic lore, resulting in a system which, while efficacious as many can attest, is simply not the real thing. Nevertheless, over the past 80 years nobody has come up with a better version.

Until now.

Drawing on the vast resources now available which hadn’t been uncovered in Ambelain’s time, Bro. Mat has set about recreating a series of powerful Elus Cohen Rituals for our time. He is the first to tell us that these are not the genuine article: nevertheless, what he has set on paper is assuredly the closest we can come to them, given our present knowledge.

I should add that, for the uninitiated, certain keys and formulae have been omitted which will make the exercise of reading the book one for the armchair rather than the oratory! However, for anyone who has been initiated into the Ambelain line and has access to key books and teachings, it should be easy enough to figure out the rituals.

If you are interested in perhaps the most accurate reconstruction to date of this extraordinary Order which persists in some form up to present times, this books comes highly recommended (including my Preface!).