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Of Errors and Truth

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Of Errors and Truth

Of Errors and Truth

Well, plans are always changing, and a chance communication last night has persuaded me to set aside one book in favor of another, at least for now.

I am now engaged in translating “Des Erreurs et de la Verité” (Of Errors and Truth) by Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin. Printed in 1782, it was his first book, published under the nom de plume of the Unknown Philosopher. It will take some time (it’s not a short book!), but I will persevere!

As a foretaste, here is his definition of ‘Truth’, which contains a phrase which will be familiar to all practicing Martinists:

“One can therefore agree from now on that the current misfortune of man is not in ignoring the fact that there is a truth, but in misunderstanding the nature of this truth; because those very people who have intended to deny and destroy it never thought they could succeed without having another truth to substitute for it. And indeed, they dressed their fantastical opinions in power, in immutability, in universality: in a word, all the properties of a Being both real and existing by itself, as they felt that a Truth cannot be such without existing absolutely, being invariable and absolutely independent, containing with itself the source of its existence; since, if it had received it from another Principle, the latter could plunge it back into nothingness or inaction from which it had drawn it forth.”

 

 

 

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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