The Rectified Scottish Rite: From the Doctrine of Reintegration to the Imago Templi
This book could just as well have been titled The Rectified Scottish Rite as a Way of Awakening, thus completing the triptych of works by Rémi Boyer on the ways of awakening that he wrote regarding the Rose-Croix, Freemasonry, and Martinism.
These initiatory paths have in common Love and Knowledge, the two pillars of the Gnosis which is particularly present in the Rectified Scottish Rite. For, above all, Jean-Baptiste Willermoz was a Gnostic, like Martinez de Pasqually before him.
Serge Caillet, in his introduction, reminds us that Gnosis is the quest for the Real. Yet Rémi Boyer insists that the Real cannot be translated into words.
We will have to go beyond the words, beyond what the rituals of the RER can say to find what they mean.
Rémi Boyer offers and comments on the instructions to the Professed and especially those of the Grand Professed who give a remarkable synthesis of the Doctrine of Reintegration.
“Beauty and grace come only with freedom. It is this that the Beneficent Knights of the Holy City must guard above all else.”
Rémi Boyer now brings us a set of keys to open the precious edifice of the Rectified Scottish Rite of the order of the Beneficent Knights of the Holy City, and to pass from chivalric templarism [...] to permanent Templarism or Templism, less accessible to ordinary Rectified Masons, but available to all those who want to work on themselves.
José Anes, Past Grand Prior and Past National Grand Master of the Independent Grand Priory of Lusitania of the Order of CBCS
About the Author
Rémi Boyer has explored at length the world of the avant-garde, initiatory traditions, and philosophies of enlightenment.
Notably, he works within the setting of the House of Surrealists in Cordes-sur-Ciel, for a new alliance between traditions, philosophies of awakening, and the artistic avant-garde. Considering literature as a form of metaphysics, he became actively involved in the journal movement of the 1980s and has since collaborated on various traditional journals in Europe. He is the author of some twenty specialized works, particularly on Western initiatory movements, works translated into several languages. Since 1992, he has edited the review L’Esprit des Choses, founded with Robert Amadou, specializing in the philosophy of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, Martinism, and Freemasonry. He is regularly invited to give lectures and lead seminars on initiation related topics in most European countries.
