Hidden Unity: French Esoteric Christianity and the Western Path to Non-Duality (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798268284966)

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France incubated a remarkably coherent esoteric Christianity. Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Christian Kabbalah, and a revived Gnostic liturgy converged around the doctrine of réintégration-the return of all beings to Divine Unity in the Logos. Moving from Martinès de Pasqually's theurgy and Saint-Martin's interior path to Lévi's symbolic synthesis, Papus's initiatory codification, and Doinel's Eucharistic vision, this book shows how a "Christian non-duality" took public form in lodges, journals, and churches. Far from a syncretic curiosity, the French tradition offers a rigorous, historically grounded account of unity that speaks fluently with Buddhism, Vedānta, and Taoism while remaining unmistakably Christian.

Author: James Foster
ISBN-13: 9798268284966
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 10/03/2025
Pages: 326
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.96lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d