Hidden Unity

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French Esoteric Christianity and the Western Path to Non-Duality

James Foster

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English

Kdf Media
24 December 2025

Spirituality & religious experience; Mysticism; Freemasonry & secret societies; Mysticism, magic & ritual

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Hidden Unity: French Esoteric Christianity and the Western Path to Non-DualityFrom the mid-eighteenth century through the fin de siècle, a distinct French esoteric current took shape in which Neoplatonic metaphysics, Hermetic symbolism, Rosicrucian and Masonic frameworks, Christian Kabbalah, and revived Gnostic liturgy cohered around a shared non-dual soteriology. This study traces that convergence from Martinès de Pasqually's theurgical Élus Coëns and the composition of the Traité de la réintégration des êtres (1770-1772; first printed 1899; critical ""version originale"" 1974), through Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin's ""interior way,"" to nineteenth-century rearticulations by Éliphas Lévi (Dogme, 1854; Rituel, 1856), Papus (Gérard Encausse), Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, and the Église Gnostique founded by Jules Doinel (1842-1903). Behind the doctrinal and institutional diversity-lodge rooms, journals, initiatic orders, and occult churches-emerges a common metaphysical template of emanation from, and reintegration into, an ineffable One articulated in Christian idiom through the figure of the Logos. Reading this lineage alongside the Rosicrucian manifestos (Fama Fraternitatis, 1614; Confessio Fraternitatis, 1615; Chymical Wedding, 1616) and within a wider comparative framework, the book argues that French esotericism offered a native Christian non-duality: a vision in which exile and return are complementary registers rather than rival truths. The result is both a historical cartography and a constructive proposal for understanding how symbol, ritual, and contemplative practice served as pedagogies of unity in modern Europe.

By: James Foster
Imprint: Kdf Media
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9798295504815
Pages: 326
Publication Date: 24 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active