Introduction

THE MARTINISM
OF THE 1952 MANIFESTO
TO THE MARTINIST ORDERS UNION


Documents used l'Initiation (1952-1958)

Introduction

The association CRP puts this document at your disposal, which was made out from the review L'Initiation publications by the regional delegate for the M. O.
Everyone should use it to exercise his critical mind. This cannot be a document to swallow.
On purpose, everything is submitted to the critical eyes of the seekers, of those who do not spare their personal efforts. Everything is to be tested, often because very truths are surrounded by blurredness.

The following journals on this theme could complete the information given by the review from 1960 to our days.
Other journals could consider aspects of the teachings proposed by Martines, Saint Martin, and Papus...

It is a little bit too easy to rest on the work of one or a few. The other journals will appear on condition that this basic work is enriched by personal research, complements brought by other books or reviews.

The ideas and positions expressed in this journal should never make one forget that the region


-- respects the individual freedom of each Martinist member;
-    Asks no one to adhere without having fully integrated the words and thoughts - however noble they may be - of our predecessors;
-    considers that no one detains truth;
- serves as a base of work for "Men of Desire", through its group structures, its rituals;
-- Is not the only dispenser of knowledge;
- stimulates the germs that we bear;
- offers initiation to every person who deserves it or in need.

I have not followed a strict plan on purpose; incomplete elements are numerous.