Quotes:Saint Martin, Louis Claude de

H. P. Blavatsky

Louis Claude de Saint Martin. Born in France (Amboise), in 1743. A great mystic and writer, who pursued his philosophical and theosophical studies at Paris, during the Revolution. He was an ardent disciple of Jacob Boehme, and studied under Martinez Paschalis, finally founding a mystical semi‐Masonic Lodge, “the Rectified Rite of St. Martin ”, with seven degrees. He was a true Theosophist. At the present moment some ambitious charlatans in Paris are caricaturing him and passing themselves off as initiated Martinists, and thus dishonouring the name of the late Adept.

Source: H. P. Blavatsky, The Theosophical Glossary, art. Saint Martin, Louis Claude de