Martinism, as mentioned, is a form of esoteric Christianity. As such various Martinist thinkers past and present have acknowledged the links of the core ideas back to Origen. This emphasis is valid of course; ‘Origenist’ restitution and Martinist reintegration are essentially synonyms. At the same time we should not lose track of the confluence of Christian ideas represented by Origen, and the Neoplatonist and pagan concepts of theurgy represented by Iamblichus. As regards Martinism, the ÉlusCoëns represent the main focus of our attention; more specifically the ideas embodied within it, as Masonic matters are not my concern. Fairly conventionally the Order was organised with equivalents to the Craft Degrees as an outer order. An intermediate series of grades in which the inner teachings were hinted at followed. Only the third series of innermost degrees taught openly and practiced theurgic rites. These, as the reader must suspect already, involved evocation of spirit beings. One aspect of these that is important enough to emphasise here is the intention to attain the Beatific Vision in life, as opposed to in the post mortem state. In this Martinism was not necessarily breaking with the past, as this exact same intention is present in one of the earliest grimoires, Liber Juratus.
- Jake Stratton Kent, The Testament of Cyprian The Mage Volume II
Suddenly reminded of Andrew Chumbley's Arcanum of the I in Azoetia
It is the purpose of the Azoetic Grimoire to transmit certain of the aforesaid Essential Principles - the patterns underlying all Magick and encrypting the Universality of Belief, in order that they may illuminate and contribute to the Workings of Our Ancient Cultus of Sorcery. For the Aim of Our Sacred Rites is to reify the Primal Dream of the High Sabbat on the Earth; to incarnate the Abstraction of the Whole I in the Present 'Self'.
