The Creation of a Universal System: Saint-Yves d’Alveydre and his Archeometer by Joscelyn Godwin First published as “La Genèse de l’Archéomètre: Documents inédits de Saint-Yves d’Alveydre rassemblés et introduits par Joscelyn Godwin,” L’Initiation, 2 & 4 (1988): 61-71, 153-166. Abbreviated English version published as “The Creation of a Universal System: Saint-Yves d’Alveydre and his Archeometer,” Alexandria, 1 (1991): 229-249. This complete English version produced and edited by Ariel Godwin with the author’s gracious permission. [Publisher’s Note: The various articles referred to in the following document have all been translated and are included in the Sacred Science Translation Society Edition of The Archeometer, making it the most complete and comprehensible version of this important work ever presented.] When one opens a heavy folio volume entitled The Archeometer: Key to All the Religions and All Sciences of Antiquity; Synthetic Reformation of All Contemporary Arts, something tells one that it may [1] not quite live up to its ambitions. Unfortunately the work of Saint-Yves d’Alveydre which bears this resounding title is not even the work of his own hand: it is a collection made by Papus (Gérard Encausse) and other “Friends of Saint-Yves” of some fragments from the universal synthesis that the great esotericist was putting in order when death interrupted him in 1909. Although it would be churlish to underrate the devotion of this group, and particularly that of its leaders, Papus and Dr. Auguste-Edouard Chauvet, it must be said that they were worried, up to the last minute, about the principles and the coherence of their [2] compilation. Thanks to the patronage of Count and Countess Keller, Saint-Yves’ son- and daughter-inlaw and his heirs, the elegant edition of L’Archéomètre, with its many illustrations and colored plates, appeared in a form more fit for admiration than for comprehension. Nevertheless, the serious scholar will know to refer to another explanation of the system, also called L’Archéomètre, published between 1910 and 1912 in twelve numbers of the short-lived review La [3] Gnose: the periodical that also carried the astonishing articles of the 21-year-old René Guénon. The articles on the Archeometer are signed “T,” the pen-name of the journal’s editor, Alexandre Thomas (also known as “Marnes”). They are thought to be based on information furnished by F.-Ch. Barlet (= Albert Faucheux), another friend of Saint-Yves who had evidently parted company from the official “Friends.” [4] Guénon supplied some very erudite notes, mostly on the Hindu tradition. But all in all, one is at a loss to find any indications of the original source of this imposing and ambitious scheme. Should one regard it as traditional doctrine, as independent revelation, as pure fantasy, or as an inextricable mixture of all these? For Papus, the work of the man he acknowledged as his “intellectual master” went, like much else, without criticism or question. For the dignitaries of the Gnostic Church, it was more of a basis for their [5] own speculations. Guénon never renounced it, no matter how far he traveled from Saint-Yves’ kind of thinking, and he cited Saint-Yves approvingly in Le Roi du Monde—a subject to which I have devoted a [6] specific article. Here we are concerned solely with the enigmatic figure of the Marquis himself, and in the circumstances which led him to construct so profound and so personal a system. There was a time when one might accept some individual’s system as an infallible dogma; but we have seen too many of them! All the same, the Archeometer remains a true summation of the intellectual and esoteric currents of the nineteenth century, just as Saint-Yves himself—more than Papus, Stanislaus de Guaita, or Péladan—is the archetypal “universal man” of the Symbolist (and “decadent”) period. He is the supreme Hermeticist of his epoch. There is fortunately a third primary source for archeometric studies: Saint-Yves’ own manuscripts, willed by Papus (died 1916) to some public library, and eventually deposited by his son, Dr. Philippe Encausse, in the Sorbonne Library in 1938, as part of the enormous “Papus Bequest” (including several [7] hundred books, many of them from Saint-Yves’ own collection). Our interest here is not in the heap of papers concerning the posthumous edition of L’Archéomètre, but rather in the scruffy school notebooks in which Saint-Yves recorded and worked out his systems, philosophy, schemata, and visions. Sometimes written in a fine, flowery hand, sometimes in a scarcely legible scrawl, these notebooks reveal a part, at least, of the events that preceded the elaboration of the Archeometer as it is found in the printed sources. The life and work of Saint-Yves have not yet been described adequately in English, which is a pity since he is often mentioned superficially. The reader of French needs only to be referred to Jean Saunier’s [8] indispensable book. We meet him in 1885, aged 43: the author of a mystical book on Life, Death, and the Sexes (Clefs de l’Orient), a huge historical study (Mission des Juifs), and a few other books on politics and poetry. He was living in a fine house near the Etoile with his aristocratic wife Marie-Victoire (born de Riznitch), his senior by fourteen years; dreaming up developments of his theory of ideal government which he called Synarchy; and beginning to study Sanskrit. At this point, the Archeometer did not exist. We will follow its progress through a series of six “revelations”—for that is how they seemed to Saint-Yves, whether given by more or less mysterious Orientals, by the soul of his wife (who died in 1895), or in response to his prayers and meditations. They are: 1. The Vattanian Alphabet (1885) 2. The Aum (1885-86) 3. The cosmic correspondences of Vattan (1885-86) 4. The Definition of Life (1896) 5. The table entitled “The Heavens declare” (1897) 6. The Triangle of Jesus (1898) First Revelation: The Vattanian Alphabet Saint-Yves learned this from Haji Sharif (or “Hardjji Scharipf”), his Sanskrit teacher. Haji came from Bombay and lived in Levallois-Perret, a suburb of Paris. The lessons took place three times a week, beginning on June 8, 1885, and continued with a few interruptions at least until November 12, 1886. Sometimes the Marquise was also present. These lessons, written out very carefully by Haji, are in the Sorbonne Library (MS. Carton 42); they are also interesting for the information they contain on “Agartha,” [9] which I have treated elsewhere. Already in the first lesson, which Haji entitled “Secret and sacred method of a guru for his Dwija” (twice-born), Vattan was mentioned as “the primitive source of all the languages in the world.” On [10] October 25, 1885, Haji wrote Saint-Yves’ name and title in these characters. As Haji also knew Hebrew (and Arabic), he was evidently the source for the equivalents of the 22 letters of Vattan with those of Hebrew—crucial for the Archeometer—and with part of the Sanskrit alphabet. As for the sources from which Haji got this Vattanian alphabet, totally unknown to philologists, it is a mystery. Certainly he belonged to some secret Brahmin society, which Saint-Yves chose to imagine as a great university, and in the end as the subterranean realm of Agartha. Could there be some connection with the language and alphabet of “Senzar” that H. P. Blavatsky and other Theosophists were mentioning at almost exactly the same time, but which has never been revealed? For Saint-Yves, according to his interpreters in the Gnose articles, “This [Vattanian] alphabet, which was the original script of the Atlanteans and of the Red Race, whose tradition was transmitted to Egypt and India after the catastrophe in which Atlantis disappeared, is the exact transcription of the astral alphabet [...] The primordial ” This name may be that of the “other Oriental” to whom several commentators (Barlet. . Second Revelation: The Aum The notebooks contain an essay entitled “On the Aum 1st degree. and how much from the pupil. it also treats the correspondences of the primary sounds of the human voice with the primary signs of Vattan: a symbolic link of the audible with the visible. A secondary layer. Table 1 shows this alphabet. who had already made a thorough study of Hebrew from the work of Fabre d’Olivet. Jean Reyor. and Vattanian letters. is the correspondence of Sanskrit with Hebrew words.. shown through the cosmogonic analysis of the Sanskrit word Aum. and peppered with Sanskrit.. The “revelation” consists in the fact that this alphabet encodes the archetypal realities behind cosmic manifestation. elliptical in style. etc. temporal. which is extremely complex. and terminal principle. For example.alphabet of the Atlanteans has been preserved in India. with its equivalents. Hebrew. which could open up many linguistic developments. the M. centers on the cosmogonic explanation of the Sanskrit word Aum. but in the text one also finds the suggestive words “Haji says. But one cannot be sure how much of that came from the guru. and it is through the Brahmins that it has come [11] down to us. the OU.” The essay. the Vattanian A is the masculine principle. any more than the fantasies of the underground world which Saint-Yves wrote as Mission de l’Inde.” and described as the “Secret [12] teaching of the Brahmins. with the correspondences of the primordial sounds of the human voice to the primordial letters of Vattan: a symbolic link between eye and ear. communicated to me by Rishi Bagwandas-Raji-Shrin. the neutral. the breath or soul.” But their presentation of such facts is so much woven in with concepts reminiscent of Fabre d’Olivet that I cannot believe in them as coming from Haji Sharif.) have alluded. The echo of the ● is . written thus . measure. the of the Veda Aham. spirit. secret. The primitive tongue Veda has been constituted on the ● . seed. The analysis of this mystic word in the Vedas is . the whole. etc. and he formed Wa I BaRa Alahim ath ha Adam: Moses c. The human Being cannot exist without being attached to the soul of souls. breath of ● . The all. death. Thus. scepter. respiration. fem. husband corresponding to water. before Creation were united into a single abode. masc. mother. terror. mystically. fire. power. the ● Aum . continuation. v. serpent. breath. soul. air. 1. principle. thought. marvel. expiration. neuter m f. staff. There. unity. the Infinite . and. say his two principles which. creative soul and essence the in the created beings. 27-28. the Thohou VVa Bohû. ● Circle. existence.Table 1 On the Aum 1st degree The unity in the trinity: masc. Trinity of functions: father. The the great breath of God. 1st chief. . Ala great. time. [41'] Science of the mystic Union. Alâhym the great abode of the ● . Alahy habitation. A. The Brahmins say Al-LaHIM the Powerful among them. the image and resemblance of ● . above. the abode of God. In writing [43] MOShoH. in the name of Moses. and the ‚. IHOHI-A. the Prophets. yogâm. IOM Kipor. by euphony and often the A. ADONa-I the Lord of the Iod or the Nicod. and . The rule of Oshi-Ri. The Kabbalists call the the Nicod bila SOPh. The Kabbalists for their part say Shem Moshe Sha Ma ha ShiM: There. in Hebr. and Amoûvi: I am the ● producing The Vedic compound would relate to IHOH. the O producing the I. my Lord. is the mystery of Yôgâ. toques and miters. 1. I. yogi. Jesus and his Apostles). H. M’V. “sign of the Union” (s masks Sh of Moses. In the synagogues. 7. M. Saint-Yves naturally referred to the Sephir Yetzirah. Adûni. where the Hebrew alphabet is divided into groups of 3. According to the Manu Veda as the Cabbalists secretly pronounce it the day of Kipor. the Circle of Life. O. has it made its return into itself to show itself in . saman hibor. H. Hashdi-bibyah secret name one finds inlaid in all ancient [illegible] of Vedo-Brahm. Moses is written MOShIaH according to the Misra Sastra Veda lect. neither vowel nor consonant. a name that sacerdotally made the Title of Pharaoh given to Moses [15] MOShI-Hah say the Sastras BaRAShITh movement : Dêvyo Brasthananta gâtis. [42] Only when it has become supreme thought. in order not to pronounce it. by what mode is it contained in Non-Being (?) (anteriority) in the supreme crown? To this question the Vedo-Brahm answers ● and O breath of the ● in the masc. This is the Sanskrit . in Vedic elevation exaltation of Being. (Putting I in the place of M: AHIOHI and reversed. is the name of God. anterior even to the wisdom Jajnanas on which the world was founded. nor sign. Likewise the day of the : of the complete Aum. [14] Moshi. when he was hidden in the his Holy of Holies which is the ž . Principle . This is the ihova. ארAiN [sic]. means exactly what one conceives neither as cause nor as essence. [42'] Secret pronunciation of the Kabbalists: IhHOuHa of the initiates IaHh-Va-Ha. through . AiN KaDMON – AbVaT the primitive non being would be the Anterior to the universe. one substitutes IOD Ki for IOD Kyam. MOShaH one has IShOH-Ma. and would signify: The all is breathed or supported by the great breath. Third Revelation: The Cosmic Correspondences of the Vattanian Alphabet For his first attempt to align the 22 Vattanian letters with the cosmic archetypes. Pourvalokam. in order to show itself outside of itself. because other than . thus A. nothing acts but the . eternal Point. The Nothing. ADONa-I the Lord I. MaOShi. an abstract circular dot in the imagination of the human spirit. Thus is the Vasdéva. he says. how. IHo-MaHa. Seed that breathes it into the fem. the point of the Infinite. the mortal is the . antiquity [13] analysis: Hardji says: the supreme breath always present in the breathed. The Panditas with the Bratma and the Yogis bear it as a symbol on their foreheads. action and armor. The movement of the incessant divine march. What is the essence of Wisdom.God is the ● . 100 Sloka 1. This. nasal respiration. Thus the ● in its origin has been the neuter Principle. 2. Jajnanas indicates the e. Daniel. on male force. Why the point? IOD is enough. ” where the corners of the pages are signed with Haji [16] Sharif’s monogram. genius of catastrophes.” why not the Sun itself? And the 15th. But he had only to read the titles that Pitois gives to the arcana to think up a better arrangement from the [18] thirteenth letter onwards. at a new and definitive system which would [19] become that of the Archeometer (see columns 4-7 of Table 2). From a note in the same notebook. drawn by a professional hand.” “Derivation. “Typhon. titled “Vattanian alphabet. perhaps with Haji Sharif’s collaboration.” and “Astral alphabet. The very shapes of the traditional symbols seemed to confirm his choices. Pitois aligns them with the 22 major arcana of the Tarot. Saint-Yves arrived. Pitois). the last two categories corresponding to the seven Chaldean planets and the twelve signs of the zodiac. which [17] he recognizes as also correlating with the Hebrew alphabet. M.12 letters. There remain three “mother letters. Saint-Yves wrote this system down in his “Hermetic Notebook. For number 14. the “solar genius. denoting the guru’s approval. but without giving any source. after a few pages. It comprises three columns. and Sh (see Table 2. it appears that Saint-Yves was currently—like many others— consulting the History of Magic of “Paul Christian” (actually the historian J. Saint-Yves adopted the letter-equivalences of the first twelve planets and signs (see Table 2). In that book there is another system of correspondences for the planets and zodiacal signs. as shown in a large leaf. This leaf was doubtless intended to take its place in the finished work. left-hand columns). found among the papers concerning the publication of L’Archéomètre by [20] the Friends of Saint-Yves. In a context of practical astrology. the primordial source of evil.” fits very well with the symbol of duality. But the pupil was not satisfied.-B. The “crocodile” of Arcanum 0 could be the serpent that devours time. Whatever his reasonings.” These derivations were presumably arrived at as a speculative exercise by Saint-Yves. . thus Chronos or Saturn.” A. messages in code. the signs of the zodiac and planets are supposed to have been derived from the primordial letters of Vattan.Table 2 The reader can judge their validity (see Table 2. herbal recipes. keeping in mind that the derivation goes from right to left. born 1827. in the middle of a section on “Botanical magic. acquire the Italian title of Marquis d’Alveydre. Haji’s monogram gets more and more cursory. he was able to resign from his job at the Ministry of the Interior. married Saint-Yves in London in September 1877. In the course of these pages. have his books published. then. Perhaps one can see in this the process of the guru’s disillusionment to which several commentators have alluded. He filled about forty pages of his Hermetic notebook with alphabets. Fourth Revelation: Marie-Victoire provides a Definition of Life Marie-Victoire de Riznitch. all rather more magical than Hermetic in content. the divorced wife of Count Keller. and pursue his esoteric researches and his plans for political reform through Synarchy. Their marriage is said to have been very .” it disappears entirely. columns 6-9). Saint-Yves played with these materials for a few months—one cannot say much more than that. Thanks to her. Arabic. manifestation spreading outwards גלשrevolution of the celestial spheres. They appear with quite another meaning in the Oedipus Aegyptiacus of Athanasius Kircher as “names of God” in the “Saracenic. assured security טצtemporary and mobile shelter of mortal man. Towards the end of 1895. . eternally stable goal of his immortality. fixation and mobilization of souls. This seems to have been the first reappearance of Marie.happy. which would fill out this notebook and several others. Saint-Yves installed an oratory in his apartment on the ground floor of 9 Rue Colbert. and died on June 7. assimilation and de-assimilation of elements. 1895. who [22] appeared to him again on July 21.” as he told Alfred Erny on August 16. and had it consecrated in correct Catholic fashion. just opposite the Palace of Versailles. the eve of the anniversary of Marie’s death. 1896 “in a blinding light. universal exchange.” There follows the Hebrew alphabet with its numerical equivalences. SaintYves writes: “My wife demonstrated to me a definition of life. and then a grouping of it into threes and twos: א ב ג ד ה ו ז ח ט 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 י כ ל מ נ ס ע פ צ 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 ק ר ש ת 100 111 200 222 300 333 400 444 איק בכר גלש דמת הנ וס זע חפ טצ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 איקcenter of obedient activity בכרcompression inwards. astral identification of beings and migration through the transition of death הנsuch is life וסfruit of the celestial ocean זעpresent agitation in fear of the future חפrepose. he had a mass celebrated there. This initiated a new period of researches. but Marie suffered much from ill health in her last years. brewing and mixing of the cosmic substance דמתintegration and disintegration of bodies. and inspired me to find it in this grouping [23] of the sacred letters. The “words” thus obtained make no sense in Hebrew. 1896. On June 6.” namely. He described it on a blank page of the Hermetic notebook which he had [21] neglected for nine or ten years. after which he had an ecstatic experience. the sum of the twelve signs of the zodiac. except in the case of the sixth root. King of Heaven. The sum of the seven planets’ numbers. that of Yahweh. V): a discovery which moved him profoundly. or “God. “Let the Peace of Jesus. It inspired him to write a poem. Shin. Saint-Yves uses kabbalistic means to reduce these numbers and to find in them archetypal words. Fabre d’Olivet’s interpretations are taken virtually word for word by Saint-Yves. be on Us.[24] Kabbalah.” Then he started an essay called “Life after Death.” But he stopped after having written only a few words on the parts of the human being according to the Egyptians. “The Heavens declare. this grouping confirmed his cosmogony. even a temptation of the devil. .” The emphasis of this revelation of the Word which created all things in six days is the key not only to the integration of colors and tones into the Archeometer. as arrived at in the Third Revelation. which includes a “Radical Vocabulary” of all the possible combinations of two letters. Saint-Yves consulted La Langue Hébraïque Restituée (The Hebrew Tongue Restored) of Fabre d’Olivet. Anticipated in Saint-Yves’ Missions and sketched out in this unfinished commentary. 469. Fifth Revelation: Marie-Victoire helps in the composition of the table. Saint-Yves succeeds in extracting the name of Jesus (Ye. it finds its fullest expression in the essay “La Sagesse vraie” which prefaces L’Archéomètre. The next page of his notebook carries a new revelation. which Fabre d’Olivet says is not used in Hebrew or Arabic. It confirms Saint-Yves’ original arrangement of the cosmic elements (planets and signs of the zodiac) with the Hebrew alphabet. and in the last word. gives the Sanskrit word Deva-ta. and the planets. Vau. The confirmation consists in the numbers which result from adding up those of the signs. to which I have applied the title “The Word. and historical. 565. 6. These make the name of Eve. in two groups of six. as he relates in the long [25] commentary below. 5.” Finally. by a procedure that some would class as mere juggling. Without a doubt. and with the addition of Yod. and many of three. but also to the philosophy behind it: a philosophy that is at once religious. For Saint-Yves. the first three words corresponding closely to the hypostases symbolized by his three “foundation letters” Aleph. And of course. becomes 5.” This is the most important revelation of all (see Table 3). Marie’s visitation was the experiential proof of life beyond death. For example. Thau. that would not fit very well in the present case. He. Sh. moral. where the earlier writer understands a whispering in the ear. corresponding to the letters He. as Saint-Yves described in his commentary. whirl!. he throws himself into history—the polemical history that he had published in Mission des Juifs—with the added dimension of [27] the “Brahmin universities” unveiled in Mission de l’Inde. After explaining the kabbalistic derivations. Easter Sunday 1897. he saw emerging the sacred name of the Word. He followed the first version with a Sanskrit alphabet. both oratory and laboratory.1). Without any care for literary style. in the heavens themselves confirmed the words of the Psalmist: “The heavens declare the glory of God.” and an equally ecstatic poem. The second version of the table bears the rubric: “Made with my Angel. 19. writing at top speed with the red ink that he reserved for his most important (though also most illegible) notes. ecstatic exclamations such as “Glory! Glorify him! Sing. The discovery of the name of Jesus encoded.” What was new here were the numbers and letters beneath the table. in which. “Glory! Glorify IEVE. Angels and Gods!” Then he constructed a circle of the zodiac and its Vattanian letters on which he tried to distribute the musical tones—seven diatonic and twelve chromatic—and the seven colors of the rainbow. . the author’s mind ranges around his discovery in ever-widening circles. as it were.Table 3 Saint-Yves drew the table which he entitled “Coeli enarrant” (The heavens declare) twice in his [26] Hermetic notebook. It gave him the impulse to write the extraordinary commentary in which one can see Saint-Yves in his philosophic workshop. But he was not yet contented with the result. and the firmament shows his handiwork” (Ps. Vedic. divine. both in the fluid-heavens and in their astral-heaven. as one discovers in another series of notes. whose key and essential symbols he believed himself to have rediscovered. for the six primary and secondary colors of the painters. Saint-Yves was limited to making the planets correspond with the tones of the diatonic scale. and by his hatred of the Romans. (E). 1901. angelic. The twelve Hebrew/Vattanian letters corresponding to the signs of the zodiac 4. mostly on the problems of finding a tuning of the scale that would agree with the sacred numbers. and Sanskrit letters. in 1897. The culmination of this quest is the musical “ruler” in L’Archéomètre (page 263) for which he even took out a patent. They were the following: 1. cosmogenic. He abandoned the rainbow. placed according to their rulerships 3. instead of with seven. without yet being united in a single diagram. It bears all the diatonic. For the same reason. The planets. B 7. designers. F. Mercury = G. G. Jupiter = C. Now the majority of elements of the Archeometer were assembled. has given us 469. or in Vattanian. Saint-Yves tested them on his Bechstein piano and his harmonium. 4 + 6 + 9 de Va ta. Venus = F. The six or seven tones. In the notes following the essay “The Word. But at this point. constructed colored circles which he spun on a top. The seven letters corresponding to the planets 5.This version of history is marked by Saint-Yves’ disapproval of the way the Jews abnegated the principles given them by Moses. The zodiacal circle 2. Always practical. and architects to make their work properly archeometric. Divinity. Mars = D. leaving twice six tones on the circle. He took as his basis the same system as Fabre d’Olivet had used. he worked henceforth with six. he extracted the tone E of the Sun [29] from the scale and replaced it at the center of his Archeometer. of their spheres. while assimilating these experiments to reflections on the sexual act: a fine example of the universality of his [30] thought. God. The six colors arranged in a six-pointed star.” Saint-Yves took the crucial decision that was the natural reflection of the Six Days’ creation: he substituted the hexad for the heptad. No subject gave Saint-Yves more trouble than speculative music: over the succeeding years he filled hundreds of pages with notes.000. A. These two peoples he reckoned enemies of the ancient Synarchy propagated by Moses and known to previous civilizations. chromatic. C. The sum of the Elohim of the middle column opposite. assigned their tuning-numbers within the framework of the apocalyptic number 144. and. and cosmological. Saturn = B. D. and enharmonic tones. absolute basis of the Word and the life in us men and in everything. The numbers corresponding to these nineteen letters 6. This affirmation of the Word incarnate cannot not be uttered by the creative word. to which Newton had attributed seven colors. generally attributed to the Egyptians on the authority of Dio Cassius: Moon = A. The addition . the total of the numbers of their living letters. The Word I am the שית- בראsaid JeShV. Sun = E. intending it to be used by artists. as he also said I am the אand the ת. organic and biogenic. which may actually have been the result of a further (seventh) revelation—the last of [28] which I have found any mention—on November 1. The commentary then addresses music. In returning to his work on the correspondences of tones and colors with the zodiacal circle. from all Eternity. 6 and by summation 10. the organic Power. It is thus in the astral world. that is to say organic Powers. that we say his Name in his absolute Speech. consubstantiality. given. All the patriarchal universities have called Capricorn the Gate of the Gods. It is now that the creative Word pronounces. infinite. 10. 6. living Alphabet of the fluid-heavens and Aleph-Thau of the astral heaven.of the three letters and numbers 4. a King of the Gods. which contracts them into itself alone [163'] and the DVT. But to utter the whole NAME. the sanctification of the NAME. eternal union. the perfect accomplishment of his work. that is to say in or י. enjoys all of its Gift of divine Love. 9 gives us 19. its star is Saturn. has itself created all the אלוהימ and through the Gods all the Angels Aleph-Thau. Its dé. of the six supreme and primordial geneses. in which everything lives again eternally because everything is constituted in God Life Eternal. its zodiacal heaven by right is Capricorn. the creative Word. It is therefore to the Son. And it is only on the 7th day that the Name is and can be uttered and sanctified by the universal Life united to its unity. the 19 unite 1 + 9 into 10. and the King of Glory opens the cosmic year. 9. of the universe. consubstantial. heaven itself shows us this and utters it to us in the absolute Speech ישוIeShV. the 19 letters of the three columns opposite or of the שית- בראof the creative Word speaking through his creation. The sum of the two zodiacal columns has given us 565 . through all their Angels. and that of the Stars relates that of the Heaven of Glory. בריא. [164'] all return by summation to the number 10. all the fluid-heavens. manifested by the Word in Universality. indissoluble Life. absolute Life. By this letter he is one with the Father. then its Ya. in numbers 10. 300. through all their fluid heavens. on the central column. and in this absolute. It is through this Gate that at the northern solstice Mother Night is the Mother of the Savior. and returned in the Adoration. ta. the other forward. infinite Life. received. of the son of יהוהwho will only pronounce the Name of the Father after having totally manifested and through all this living manifestation. because it is thus in the divine world. through them. . Its letter is Shin. For there are not two absolute words but a single one. there must be added to his name the letter of the number [165] 6 and this divine Name before which everything bows. the בראof the 6. 6. through all the Angels. Its Angel has two faces. before the Gods. The Universe therefore tells us in its living Word: Divinity is absolute Life. to the Word Himself. which must be confirmed thus. pronounced IêSh in Hebrew. because the NAME is only uttered on the 7th day. that of the six divine illuminations. Husband and Wife are a single God יהוה. from heaven down into Hell. הוה. before the heavens. namely again the letter י. to the letter Y. 9. The name of the creative Word is therefore IS. co-essence with the Father. 4. Therefore I is the first letter of the King of the Gods. And since he is the lord of the 6 and. and this King is not directly יהוה: it is his Son engendered from his unity. Unity. through all the astral heaven. instrumentally organizing functionalities of this same biogenic Word incarnate in the universe. both in front and behind. The 6 preceding illuminations are the work of the 6 ALOHIM of the central column who form it themselves: six on the right. The 2nd letter is at the base of the middle column of the 6. deVata 469 = 19 has its absolute union in its God in 10. Let us examine the middle column. But a Power. all the astral heaven divinely biologized. six on the left in the Zodiac of the Gods of which that of the Heavens is only the Shadow. The Elohim therefore have a Master. in which nothing can die. the one to the rear in the anterior Eternity of life. Va. Here is what the absolute Word has just proven to us through all its genesic letters through all their numbers. Being and Life. absolute. in Living Eternity. [164] It is therefore not IêVê who is the שית- בראat least in a direct manner. vivified and organized. Ta. co-essential. the celestial Messiah: ISh-ra. the Atlantean or Adamic alphabet of the כב22לא Powers. The exactitude of our zodiaco-planetary sphere of the Word is verified by first of all verifying the [167] NAME. Fire. that is to say in the whirling ray that emanates from the Absolute out of the point of the ungraspable center that constitutes the boundless sphere of the Infinite.” as its terrible master called it. “Wild ass of the desert. its sun. the Hero of the Spirits ישו. in terms of the forms of these letters or the morphology of the Word. riah glory and glorification by Gift and sacrifice. this caste in rupture with the divine and social synarchy was not only the plague of the Jewish nation. the savior. the social Zodiac of the Greece was already disfigured by the politician Prudhommeries of Sparta. but it ceases to be sacred or holy. in Vedic. That of the Jews is also exact in its number of letters and letters of numbers. Master of all through the political State Niniveh which was born from it and died from it. and above all the Vattanian in which the sacred morphology is preserved in the alphabet of the most ancient temple. ישin the Hebrew of Moses signifies the divine Man. cobbled together by Moshe. [167'] no more epopt than prophet. the King. the divine synarchy of IEVE. to make possible the Gift of Love. Read in Egyptian style.Va Ra. this name is found in O-Sh I-RIS. in the Aleph-Thau. in the universal Essence Aleph-Thau. all his powers. the Asoth. Jesus having said: I am the Aleph-Thau. In this respect as in many others. meditating on the Vedic characters. was in its place and concordance in the A-Th. this was our first beam of light. the remarkable theologian. that of the letter S or Samek. it also stank up the earth after the schism of Irshou. and Athens. then from the Ramids of India and Egypt to the Abramids of Chaldea. of the Word I Sh V son of IHOH. It also needed an interior circle. For this. the Vau. and if the letter of the number 6. If he had been more than that. in the Soul. and this time gave us the ASTh. to the Noachide or Manavic Church in Vedic. Babylon (Bab-ilon the city of the partisans of the nature. Angels. astral number. the archetypal Shêmah. that is to say true and just. The ancient word I. in Vattan. Thebes. then into Sanskrit. the social zodiac of Italy was already devoured from heart to head by the enraged wolf through . and all that it signifies. that is to say again the universal Living Soul or the Vital Glory of Being. people of [illegible]) choked it. In Egyptian I Sh V has the same meaning. therefore the King. not a patriarchal Catholic of the angelical Judias ISh-ra-El. the diplomat writer who was Esdras shows himself to be no more a disciple of Moses than directly living and seeing in God. who knew all this through the ancient brotherhood of the metropolitan patriarchal universities. and inversely SIV I Sh V the lord InShV. Light. prayer. He was all the more the man of the Jewish political bourgeoisie who despite Samuel had annihilated the social synarchy of Moses. from right to left. the divine synarchy of the IAO of Orpheus. the Master Scribe. they would have assassinated him like all the prophets. Besides. celestial. disappeared. I Sh V signifies the lord of the Spirits. The ancient Noachide and pre-Noachide or Adamic patriarchal university had read this Name in the absolute Speech of the Angels and the heavens as we have just read it. has passed from the ancient Church whose sacred language was Vattan. Ynges. receives from him the name of the King of Glory. divine desire.Sh. in the triple patriarchal anteriority. Anterior to Moses and his sacerdotal Hebrew. and they worshiped it as I worship It. in Sanskrit it is IShU-Ra Ra. in Sanskrit. He was a good Jew but not an Israelite at all. Motion or [165'] motive cause. this people. made this name into the hierogrammatic standard of the Egyptian pariah people which he had established only in order to carry these sacred relics. the lord of Glory. all the organism of the creative Word had to be exactly placed. râ archetypal Gift. sacrifice to heal and save and redeem. of the Etruscans. Moses. the archetypal substance of this essence. it is because it is replaced by the word AL signifier of the ALOHIM Gods. Let us dwell again on this word sacred. the Master of the spiritual or angelic world. Read from left to right. each in its letter and its angelic. Troy is Ilion. that is to say. Likewise the new name given to the Etruscan city ruptures it from the sacred metropolis. competed in vitality with [168] the ancient Indo-Egyptian metropolises. assassinated by this Demon. read with the keys of our Zodiac of the Word. rotten from anarchy for more than fifteen hundred years. A last Zoroaster would be incarnated in a last prophet. That of religious and social Greece had found only one brilliant aid in the initiate Homer. even in terms of their true genesic sense. and the Sath of the bi-polarizing substance or the biogenic prism of the egg of the world. but divinely biogenic because God is Life. the Prudhommeries of Latium.. The emblem of this Alma Mater was not the ancient winged Yonah. the economy of the ancient social State of the Patriarchs. had also guided me infallibly. I arranged the twelve and 7 letters consequently. assailing Iran. Having the Aleph-Thau of the absolute Essence. and future. devouring dissolution. representing her as the Master Mind of her City of Election. All that Moses had seen. present. Jesus. sepher by sepher. 19 letters remained for me. having been thus raised to bravado by the [illegible]. starving anarchy. all that his wild ass had built and exercised in the desert under the [illegible] to save the sacred relics through the accursed ages. She generated for herself a Cain. cycle by cycle. A – letter of the great sphere indicated by two semicircles joined as a code. all the anti-Word of the anti-God. I did the same testing for the primary and combined colors. they were overcome by materialism in all the attacks on the Faith. had we not had the inspiration to group it first into the letter of the ray. the anti-Enosh. and understood [in] the university sanctuaries and in the Word that lives in the past. and verified the harmonic and melodic positions and revolutions on an exquisite Bekestein [sic] piano and on the no less fine Mustal [?] organs. the A. in social although anti-sacerdotal synarchy. The sow there was Prudhommery satiated. It would reduce social Italy to slavery. and finally by the letter of the small sphere ●● sa. It is still ancient religious science.the demonic conspiring of the bourgeois of Rome. From then on . Rom-ulus is the Rama of matter and the emanation [?] of a future Ramayana of brutality. telling me I am the Bereshith. recall those of the Ramid and Abrahamid patriarchs. hated by the Elohim because of its anti-religious anti-royal anarchy. and the exact septuple measure of the diatonic scale of 7 divine numbers. the anti-Christ and Satan unwound his anti-Bereshith into action year by year. scroll by scroll. the divine substance Sun ima da. imposing its ringleaders on Assyria. 12 zodiacal and 7 planetary. marked by two points to indicate two foci of the ellipse or ovoid. the She-Wolf. then through other correspondences. Lupa. although already disrupted and degenerated. erected in the Mother Doctrine of universality and political State. Their morphologenic relationship with the most ancient celestial signs. Roma. Only Chinese Prudhommery born of the bourgeois schism of Irshou having had the good sense to establish itself in the Celestial Empire of IAO. but its terrestrial antithesis through the patriarchal Templars. and the Life of the Word. As for the Turanian Prudhommeries. the symbol of the coat of arms that the Italian synarchists applied to them. the one political. although altered. The names. read. reverses the device Amor. Likewise. an Abel. connecting to their Trojan anti-patriarch and initiator Aeneas. raising as a standard the carnal. the memories and promises of the Patriarchs. struck me. the other social. word for word Matter conceived as the source of the principal Being of below opposed to the Bereshith of above by a Prudhommery rupturing the patriarchal ban. at the Sacred Name of the 7th Day. but his Iliad his ileant [sic] of joy at the annihilation of Trojan Prudhommery says a great deal. For need I say that the astral world is simply the weight of the numbers of the divine world and its word.S. that the planetary septenary is simply the correct septuple weight. who had opened to me the Way. [169] But the Vattanian Alphabet itself [would] never have been useful to us. by telling me in His Gospel I am the Aleph-Thau. But the first 6 days remained closed to me. that was its seducer. present. and future modes of [169'] 12 tones and semitones. the Law. the Truth. the supreme protestation of the ancient Habysah from before the Hebrews of Moses. neither metaphysical nor physical. century by century. and opposes the Land of hatred to the ancient universal Charity. that the dodecenary zodiac is constituted by and upon the creative mode of all the past. and I arrived at the supreme proof. as far as the astral heaven. Life. Sixth Revelation: The Triangle of Jesus The idea of the hexad in combination with the zodiac naturally led to an investigation of the equilateral triangles joining the signs by elements. animal. ad Dexteram Patris. 40 and by summation 86 the Ph (80) the speech in 6 or the breath of the 6. and I opened the Zodiac and the Planetarism of the Word in trifatic sexenary. the number of the Decans. the absolute love of all love. and in יהוה. vivified by them and where all Life is revivified in the celestial Water and in the spirit. sign of air and the autumnal equinox of the heavens. is resurrected in that other world. or translucent. but that which is the opposite in the Potential of Being. this is Mihla or miêla [end of essay]. One does not die in Absolute Life. and of the earth of glory above. For the Bereshith creates always and eternally in the present. For it is called Love itself. the letter Y in Vattan unites them to Ie Sh V and to IEVE in the sign of Virgo. to bear witness to God through worship. When this light of life was made in me. and the universe as well. its finality which is septenary. For according to them there is no reality except in the temporal progressions of Principles outside of the Principle. So that a Veritable Principle contains in itself all sacredness. in Sanskrit or to glorify. shows them to us at the vernal equinox of the heavens in the sign of Aries or the solar Lamb where the Sun of the Spirits has his exaltation in his Gift. 5. destroyed by us. animating itself in my heart. the Name of the ALHIM. then the infinity of radiances. [171'] Finally the ALHIM in musical numbers of their letters say 1. and the constitution of the angelic and astral universe in absolute Being is infinitely living. is the guarantee. which bears witness to it. that a True principle is not an abstraction but an animation containing all its animate things. sign of the earth of glory. or man. always at the present in Him. The name of Jesus pours forth from it according to his own laws of living light through the heavens of heavens. it is the contrary. sign of the Living Waters of Heaven. 6 three times = 18 six times = 36.this word. in Vattan . the Shema. but everything that dies in our world. preserving and saving its creature of love. in him. 6 60 times = 360. poured forth living as far as my brain. the letter M in Vattan shows us Scorpio. that is to say nothing in nothing real. [171] It remains for us to see. in the world of Bereshith. Read from left to right. Death is not possible there in the Living God who rules from cycle to cycle. If the Bereshith is what the metaphysicists say. the Vattanian A shows us the radiants of the Aleph Thau and of the ASoTh of the Ethereal. The H. vegetable. Show me the death of a being. operating through them as through his organic and functional powers. and I felt. These 86 yield 14 = ID. not [170] only in potential of being in the vain manner of metaphysicists. before the [170'] Fall of Adam. on the Sphere of the Living Word. which form a double Star of Solomon. Saint-Yves hoped to find significances that would confirm those that “the Heavens declare. the absolute organizer of all substance organized according to its specific species by him. For the heavens of mortal time are the shadow projected by the light of the heavens of eternal Life. the sign of Libra. because the I. we are all lost. the indestructible reality of every particular life in its ante- and ultra-temporal specificity. 10. in the Agni in the Fire of love of his supreme sacrifice. I understood that the creative Word of the 6 was only in them because they were in Him as Him in IEVE. the executive of their judiciary right after the council of the Gods presided over by the king of Glory. the absolute life of all life. their quality as Judges of Lives at the council of the Gods presided over by the King of Glory. the יand the of IEVE is in the sign of Virgo. its means which are sextupling. 30.” The four triangles are as follows: . in a superhuman joy of all my being. But happily. The second letter L in Vattan shows us the winged beings of the celestial air. nor in the world created in its image by its Bereshith. that is to say in the eternal reality of their realization. gives it a definition: . May 29. in their proper proportion. revealed itself at the same time. 48 cm. Sagittarius 5 + 9 + 70 = 84 E. He discovered that a harmonious scale cannot be made with the numbers 137 or 84. North Earth 80 + 6 + 10 = 96 P. Even Fabre d’Olivet’s book had no more help to offer. Y Virgo Saint-Yves began by treating the four sums as the limiting numbers of musical scales. LKZ. for example: Vibrations per String length Tone OR Tone sec. “Jesu. 1898. T. Direction Element Zodiacal signs Numbers Letters East Fire Aries. as the name of Maria. as whole numbers. 1900. of [32] course. that of Water. Ou Cancer. MRHa: Marie-Victoire. Leo. R Pisces 248 Libra. it would be ready for Papus to demonstrate it on [33] September 26. A passage follows in which Saint-Yves. Saturn. M. E' 96 C' 54 D 90 B 60 C 80 A 64 B 72 G 72 A 64 F 80 G 60 E 90 F 54 D 96 E 48 C But if only the letters of these triangles gave equally beautiful results! Saint-Yves was at a loss with the barbaric triglyphs ETOu. The Triangle of Earth is nothing other than the Triangle of Jesus—so long as one substitutes for the tiresome P of Capricorn the Sh of his ruler. PVY. Now the Archeometer was practically finished. [31] Saint-Yves found the solution at Pentecost. as the number assigned to the highest (or lowest) tone. HMR. no less than the Blessed Virgin. 8 + 40 + 200 = South Water H. Z Gemini 137 Capricorn. at the International Spiritist and Spiritualist Conference in Paris. Thereupon it is transformed into YShV. 30 + 100 + 7 = West Air L. but that 96 and 248 give satisfactory tuning systems. namely. Taurus. These triangles are much discussed in L’Archéomètre. Scorpio. for the first time. K. Aquarius. but without casuistry. V.” The other musical triangle. which would allow all the other tones to be given. but since preserved solely in the secret universities of the Brahmins. the information of Hindus on Saint-Yves’ work is anything but satisfactory. and what he understood (not what his pupil understood!) by the “great Agarthian school” whose tradition he is supposed to have preserved. is in the Law. profane superstition called it magic. and the Revelation is this science itself.Table 4 The Wisdom The universal Fact. It is not enough simply to dismiss it. and the supreme instrument of its experiments is that which I have reconstituted under the name of the Archeometer. declared them absolutely ignorant of sacred Wisdom. the Law is in the Principle. or to veil it in further mystifications: one needs to know exactly where Haji Sharif learned it. the hieroglyphic Christian poem known by the name of Job proclaimed it lost. St. creative Word and preserver of the universal Fact and its supreme miracle: Life. the Law is revealed by the Fact. The . The Fact is experimental. [213] This knowledge was experimental. Nevertheless. Three thousand years before him. the Principle by the Law. [35] At present. the Christianity of the creative Word. Christianity calls it religion. and from the Principle nothing emanates. the Three are indivisible.” [34] Conclusions I doubt that there is anyone today—even that there ever was anyone—who shares the opinion of Saint-Yves: that the Archeometer is the result of his rediscovery of the true. who knew to their depths the most secret traditions of the Jews. I cannot give a better brief definition of the Archeometer than “the mother Prism of the Principle and of the universal Correspondences therein. total synthesis in the Law and by the Law in the Principle. disfigured and denatured no less by the Jewish Kabbalists than by the profane Greco-Roman civilization of which we are the unfortunate heirs—a wisdom familiar to Moses and Jesus. The integral science is this revelation. their very existence unsuspected to this day. the origin of this Vattanian alphabet remains an open question until Hindu scholars and philologists can explain its existence. then of the incarnate Word. Antiquity called it Wisdom. and every fact within it. primordial wisdom of mankind. everything immanates in Him. It is this supreme Wisdom of the pre-Hebraic Patriarchs that Saint Augustine calls the True Religion. Paul. informants of Marco Pallis. but in a very different way. the correspondences indicated in L’Archéomètre seem to us worthy of consideration. [Note] Thus. as the traditional Kabbalists do theirs. that “All is Fire”. and inspirations—was the natural consequence of ideas [39] he had expressed twenty years before. tones. to take one example. Without that. to the evocation of souls for obtaining messages. But at the same time as Thales. Admittedly there are at least two systems of cosmic correspondences in the traditional Kabbalah: another one gives the Moon the letter Ain. Certainly Saint-Yves justified his system by its results. rituals. Jean Reyor writes on this point: Whatever some people have said. Unlike purely metaphysical principles. the correspondence of the letter Beth of the Hebrew alphabet with the Moon. In perhaps the most intelligent article ever written on the Archeometer. and Saturn the Lamed. if not since the Ionian philosophers. This last subject leads us to reconsider the revelations which Saint-Yves received after the death of Marie-Victoire. dating from the same period as Clefs de l’Orient. and even the survival of the soul. Heraclitus was saying. Perry [37] affirms it. and contemporary with Saint-Yves there is the admirable Charles Henry whose system also connects. I do not find it troubling. To say. We are touching here on the problem of all universal systems. this. The decisive point in the Archeometer’s development was the decision to reject the traditional correspondences of the Kabbalah. Cosmologies change with time—even with individuals—but that does not prevent each from having a certain degree of truth. it may be a question of a simple difference in point of view. For each of them. for example. in his book Clefs de l’Orient (1877). There is more. that is. very similar to that which Madame Blavatsky was working on at exactly the same time. with the assistance of Oriental sources no less mysterious than those of Saint-Yves. absolutely deny any Hindu origin for the name “Agartha” [36] introduced by Saint-Yves in his Mission de l’Inde. and for my part. Was he a spiritualist? To answer this question. and even provides it with an etymology! It is also up to the Hindus and Sanskritists to judge the validity of the Second Revelation. at least. But one wonders just how far these “different points of view” can go. that “All is Water” is not so very different from saying with Saint-Yves that the universe is created on Archeometric principles. with Thales. Divergence is not always contradiction. the fact that they differ from those given in the Sepher Ietsirah. nothing in the geometry of the diagram would have worked. words. colors. numbers. of which there have been so many since the Renaissance. contains the valuable evidence that Saint-Yves had drawn up at least the plans for a secret sanctuary dedicated to psychurgy. Every constructor of a cosmological system adapts the traditional and scientific data (planets.) to his own point of view. with just as much reason. either through table- . for example. does not necessarily mean that one or the other is wrong. and recommended that this science of “psychurgy” should be cultivated within the family. But the anonymous informant of Whitall N. A small dossier of manuscripts.” Do they know of any metaphysic of letters such as is found here. questions of correspondences of a cosmological order are subject to the psychological and racial formations through which they are viewed. can be defended just as well as the correspondence with Saturn indicated by the Sepher Ietsirah. “the Aum. it must be understood that the whole affair of his wife’s death—oratory. Perhaps the author of the Sepher Ietsirah did exactly that. There can be no doubt that he used it himself at Marie’s death. with its striking resemblances to that of Hebrew? It is at least an ingenious linguistic synthesis of the Vedic and Hebrew cosmogonies. etc. apparitions. There he described the procedures to be used in assisting the soul to leave the body. it is a satisfying explanation of a cosmos which defies the rational mind. is the conclusion that one is led to on admitting different points of view. constellations. as indicated by [38] L’Archéomètre. ” in L’Initiation... Godwin. [5] Also for their spiritualist séances. either in a “blinding light” or more inwardly. ed. translated into English as literally as possible. Amadou. n. Réforme Synthètique de tous les Arts Contemporains (Paris: Dorbon Ainé. connect. This sanctuary had obvious links with the cult founded by Fabre [40] d’Olivet in the last months of his life. P. Saint-Yves d’Alveydre ou une synarchie sans énigme (Paris: Dervy-Livres. 41. 1912). Saint-Yves doubtless regarded the visitations of Marie-Victoire. its confessional and psychological traits have a lot to do with it. MS. measure. 1979): 45-60. See Robert Amadou. the complete text appears below.” Yet it is not obligatory to believe everything that people say about “angels. say. René Guénon (Paris: Cahiers de l’Herne. more complete edition. no. 9 (July-Aug. 7/8 (AutumnWinter. after all. [16] MS. 1979) has an introduction by Jean Saunier. Notebook 5. Maurice Griveau—the Archeometer is primarily an exteriorization of the interior cosmos that constitutes the soul of its author.” op. 126'. Azbel (= Emile Chizat). But twenty years later. [1912]). Saint-Yves explains thus the etymology of the word Vattan: “Vat signifies to speak. [8] J. 1823. “Les Fonds Saint-Yves d’Alveydre à la Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne. distribute. cit.” During the previous days. haYBi. Hoëné Wronski. 1912: “It is inadmissible: we owe it to the master to make a readable book. 179. for example. 1979): 83.rapping or through a human medium. share. 5 (Spring. 1981). and is followed by L’Archéomètre musical and La Théogonie des Patriarches. [7] See the summary of R. The best of several reissues (Paris: Gutenberg Reprints. 1985). and continuing through the last number of the journal (Feb. Notebook 2. f. 32 (1986): 24-34. the human vessel is not always a faithful transmitter of what it has received from above.” Although his experience may have been authentic from his point of view. 117-135. beginning f. whose publication date is customarily given as 1911. to reproduce the Macrocosm without filtering it through some microcosm? [1] L’Archéomètre: Clef de toutes les Religions et de toutes les Sciences de l’Antiquité. knot. in pencil: “Shda. And how is it possible. 1981). 3/4 (Autumn. Chauvet was writing to the printer Darantière. [13] In the margin. No. 1910. f. [15] In the Margin: 366. G. Like every universal system of modern times— and I am thinking particularly of Saint-Yves’ French precursors Fabre d’Olivet.” [14] In the Margin: 356. 185.d. and his contemporaries Charles Henry. still discussing the order of the sections of the book. not a heterogeneous compilation. in order to preserve its spontaneous character. [6] J. Notebook 26. 2 & 3 (1981). Carton 42) [3] Beginning with No. ShdeH. Notebook 2. [4] Mostly collected by Nicolas Séd in J. “Saint-Yves d’Alveydre and the Agarthian Connection. Charles Fourier. July 13. (Letters in the Bibliothèque de la Sorbonne. equality of form and dimension. No. Laurant. 1910). The essay itself is in MS. sphere.). [9] J. Godwin. I have adopted his numbering of the manuscript notebooks.” Sphinx (Beaugency). “Saint-Yves d’Alveydre and the Agarthian Connection. 1978): 21 unpaginated pages. probably to Papus. “L’Erreur spirite de René Guénon.” (MS.” in The Hermetic Journal (Tysoe. Vata signifies circle.B. [2] Letter from Chauvet. Saunier. Nice: Bélisane. 44') [12] This is how the essay is catalogued in MS. I would guess. Tan signifies to deploy. 1826. 33:31-38. The original was written rapidly in black ink. [10] This can be seen in the otherwise undeciphered inscription that prefaces Saint-Yves’ posthumous book Mission de l’Inde (Paris: DorbonAiné. [11] La Gnose 9 (1910). 1823. that in Saint-Yves’ case it would have been impossible for him not to “discover” the name of Jesus as the crown of his system. envelop. following (whether they knew it or not) in the footsteps of Saint-Yves. . not as spiritualist phenomena but as mystical experiences: as encounters with a reintegrated being—he calls her “a Saint in Paradise”— [41] whom he rightly named his “Angel. 1823. The archeometric developments in music and architecture take these notes as the bases of triads. with the additions from the second version at the head and foot of the diagram. [33] See R. Folios 166-166' contain the description of the mass of June 6. 495. no. 186-206. 66-70. 158'. 401. Kircher. 162'. f. Jouvet. MS. All Saints’ Day. . They range over a fascinating variety of topics. Carton 42. Amadou. 1823. 163-165'.” part I. cit. (Paris: Dorbon Ainé.[17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] P. 193). for the stenographic report of Papus’ demonstration. etc. [27] See Mission des Juifs. . op. 1823. 1928). Vol.d. Saint-Yves d’Alveydre. 1652-54). f. carton 42. black.000 is called “the theogonic number for the divine Wisdom and for its cyclical mode . Vol. Notebook 5. 166'. [39] Reissued with introduction by J.” op.” Le Voile d’Isis. proportions. 1896. [24] A. 1977). MS. Saint-Yves d’Alveydre. f. Notebook 5. carton 42. believing with me that my beloved wife is a Saint in Paradise. Reyor (= Maurice Clavelle). [38] J. 8. “Démonstration de l’Archéomètre par Papus. Vol. 1901. 134'. Histoire de la Magie (Paris: Furne. 215n. [26] MS. René Guénon. Laurant.). 401. [40] See Léon Cellier. [34] MS. 576ff. the Sun taking the same A as the Moon. [30] MS. n. “Gurdjieff in the Light of Tradition. f. 2nd ed. and green ink. 1823. [41] The Abbé Simonin. .” See Saunier. Godwin. Notebook 5. Notebook 5. [32] L’Archéomètre. P. 1823. “brought sacerdotal vestments of white and gold. Notebook 5. Fabre d’Olivet (Paris: Nizet. ff. Notebook 3. 4 (1974). ff. 1980). 312-321. letter to J. 115. see Saunier. Oedipus Aegyptiacus. Notebook 5. Pallis. N. Response from my angel. [25] MS. The dossier on the Psychurgic Sanctuary is in MS. Mascardi. Christian. and deserve to be published as a contribution to the very sparse documentation of SaintYves’ later thought. My redrawing follows the first version.. [35] See J. 354. 105: 144. Saunier (Nice: Bélisane. [28] MS. 212'-213. chapter XVI. 157. P. 1823. [31] MS. 191'.” [29] The musical notes are scarcely legible on the Archeometer (see Table 4). [23] MS. they follow the planets in their zodiacal houses. drawn in red. For the description of the mass. Notebook 4. and Cellier’s edition of Fabre d’Olivet’s La Vraie Maçonnerie et la Céleste Culture (Lausanne: La Proue. [37] W. Notebook 5. “Saint-Yves d’Alveydre et l’Archéomètre. [36] M. “Saint-Yves d’Alveydre and the Agarthian Connection. 1823. 1823. The notes of Erny’s visit and conversations are partly in MS. II (Rome: V. who celebrated the mass of June 6. 382-383. Perry. Studies in Comparative Religion. ff. ff. cit. 167-171'.” L’Autre Monde 77 (Dec. 40 (July 1935): 290. 1823. Christian. f. and partly in the Fonds Papus of the Bibliothèque Municipal de Lyon. 1823. MS. 1983): 28-32. 1896.