"I entered the assiduous study of the esoteric tradition at the age of eighteen years old. By studying esotericism with all my soul, I naturally came to have experiences and to enter a practice and a discipline.
I see, with time, that there are two ways to go towards another world and begin awakening. First, through nature, the water that flows, the wind in the trees, all that awakens sound and life inside oneself in a communion with the Word. There is in nature the presence of the Word, that is to say of the veritable, universal, pure teaching. Then, what can awaken man are the sacred texts of the great sages, of the great Sons of God."

Olivier Martin pursues in solitude his inner journey. He will study and practise the esotericism of several schools of mysteries, secret traditions and currents of wisdom, seeking there what belongs to his own lineage. He reads the sacred texts and attempts, through testimonies and writings, to find again the memory of the path he has already travelled in other lives. He feels attracted by the meditation of the great scriptures and the mysteries of the Kabbalah, of esotericism and of Hermeticism.

"When I was twenty years old, I was studying the very holy Kabbalah and the Name of God of four letters. I was meditating on the sanctification of the Name of the Father in relation to the four letters of the Kabbalah and with the science of the Word and of magical writings."

Olivier becomes interested in occultists and more particularly in the Martinists and the Rose Cross. He will find there again a current embodied by Papus, born Gérard Encausse, great theosophist and occultist who founded the Martinist Order in 1891.

"This current manifested around the work of Éliphas Lévi, one of the last great prophets of modern times, who announced that a perfection would arrive after him, that a light would reappear on earth through seven Sons of the Sun. I was also fascinated by the Marquis Saint-Yves d'Alveydre and very interested in the work of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin."

One day, finding himself in prayer outside time, Olivier feels that all the teaching of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin (1743-1803) enters inside him. He does not know that he was one of the founders of the Martinist Order in his previous life, under the name of Papus. At that time, Papus evolved towards a very stripped-down, pure spirituality and finally very close to the thought of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin and of Martinès de Pasqually (1727-1774), whom he also embodied, Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin being his friend and secretary. Finding himself at the origin of all this teaching, he suddenly receives it in the heart of his meditation and grasps it immediately in its entirety.

"I had read so to speak none of the books of Saint-Martin, I could not manage to read them. But despite my young age, I was seeking truth, the Light. I suddenly understood everything and I set myself to the search for the greatest specialists concerning this man. I thus went into their esoteric brotherhood to meet their masters there. They showed me my old writings, which have become their Bible. By reading a few passages, I understood everything, since it came from me. I grasped that in reality, I was the grand master of this brotherhood and that I created it in another life. But they did not recognize me and did not veritably understand this teaching. I first decided to keep silent, but when I ventured a few words, they looked at me with strange eyes and became irritated, visibly having fear of me. They must have sensed that I was dangerous for them, that I could destroy their doctrine, their institution, their hierarchy... They rapidly showed me where the door was."

Disappointed at not being able to share his impulses and his discoveries, Olivier Martin keeps silent once again, but by good fortune, a part of the veil that covered the mysteries of his past lifted, enabling him to find again the memory of his last incarnations as well as all the knowledge to which he had arrived.

Olivier finds again also a being he has known and who fascinates him, Stanislas de Guaita (1861-1897), French occultist and poet, author of "The Martinist Brotherhood and the Order of the Rose Cross". He discovers that they are at the origin, with Sâr Péladan (1858-1918), of the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose Cross. He feels an immense admiration for him.

"I discovered the old incarnations of Stanislas de Guaita. I adored this being, who yet was not pure. Great hierophant of the Neoplatonic mysteries, he had been one of my masters in another life, in Greece. We had to jump from a cliff to be initiated. This master reincarnated himself with great knowledge and could do fabulous things. I saw where he would go during the night to discover his teachings. He would come out of his body and find his old incarnations again. He would then have the inspirations of all the greatest ancient mysteries, then he would return to his body. In him had opened a space that enabled him to have access to these celestial teachings in his physical body, and it is thus that he could speak of them. He had an extraordinary school of mysteries, being himself an extraordinary character."
In this continuity, Olivier Martin will study the secrets and mysteries of veritable ancient Egypt, mother of all civilizations. He understands that Egypt holds numerous keys and revelations for the seeker with pure and sincere heart. Indeed, Egypt was the last civilization to embody on earth the true religion, that of the Light. Egypt was a great civilization because its priests hid the divine teaching of which they were the guardians while revealing it through symbols, magical writings that have crossed the centuries. They reserved the subtle spirit of the Teaching for beings who were prepared, initiated. It is not men, but God who created the Egyptian civilization, which is the perfection of a higher self, of a higher government. Through it, through the Egyptian texts, God showed perfection as a writing. Egypt was the beginning of a renaissance of humanity.

"'Egypt' means house of Ptah, house of God. The entire country was destined to be the house of God so that no dark force could enter there. Egypt knew all the secrets. It is one of the greatest civilizations that has existed on earth in duration, because it resisted invasion through its purity. It was a paradise on earth for centuries upon centuries. The Egyptians knew the secrets of union with the Divinity and with the number four. If man is in the absolute stability of God, he becomes a God, and he is seated on the Name of four letters of God, which are the four elements of nature. He is in fire and the Light, he is in his house and becomes a Divinity."

The initiated Egyptian artists were the repositories of a cosmic science and knowledge that have disappeared. They had moreover prophesied it: "O Egypt, a time will come when men will see your statues and your monuments, will contemplate your mysteries and yet will understand nothing of them."

Most often, Olivier Martin knows the disappointment of finding inside each spiritual movement only a great illusion, a commercial stake. Indeed, the original dimension has often disappeared. He enters in 1985 into the movement of the Universal White Brotherhood, founded at Sèvres by Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov. Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, fervent disciple of Peter Deunov, pursued in France the work of his master and established this branch of the Brotherhood in 1947 by referring to the esoteric and mystical Church of Saint John.

"Already at the time of Omraam, the Essene brotherhood was international and much vaster than modern seekers believe. Through the school of God activated in numerous peoples, this universal teaching has survived."

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Martinès de Pasqually (1727-1774)

Martinès de Pasqually had a great knowledge of the Secret Wisdom, of the esoteric teachings of Greece, Egypt and the Orient. Within the framework of the Order of Elect Priests, which he founded in 1762 in Bordeaux, his doctrine has for object to enable initiates to find their primitive purity again by using the assistance of the Angels through an operative magic. As the Elect Priests climb the ladder of the grades of the Order, from that of apprentice up to that of Réau-Croix, they are conducted little by little to collaborate in the restoration of the universe in its primitive purity.

Martinès seems indeed to have been missioned to present a certain form of Rose Cross initiation and teaching. Indeed, the superior degree of this Order was named Réau-Croix, allusion to the state of Rose Cross, of Realized One. The secret initiation proposed by Pasqually and still conveyed by certain Martinist Orders seems to be of great importance and remains an enigma. Is it comparable to the consolamentum of the Cathars and to the apostolic transmission of the Christian Churches?

Unfortunately, the powerful earthly organization of the Elect Priests put in place by Martinès de Pasqually did not manage to maintain the level after the death of the master in 1774. This theurgic order has had a great influence on Freemasonry. Initiator of the current of Martinism, Martinès de Pasqually is doubtless registered as "master" in the traditional archives of this order, and one finds his name on a list of illustrious Rose Cross members, drawn from the work of R. M. Lewis "Complete History of the Rose Cross".

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Papus (1865-1916)

The Martinist Order was created by the great occultist Gérard Encausse (known as Papus) in 1891, and he animated it until 1916, date of his death. This order owes its name to the memory of Claude de Saint-Martin and perhaps to that of Martinès de Pasqually. Gérard Encausse was born on July 13, 1865, in Spain, in La Coruña, of a French father and a Spanish mother.

After having spent his youth in Paris, he studied medicine. From the middle of the 1880s, and even before having finished this training, he became passionate about esotericism. Papus decided to found, with Augustin Chaboseau, an initiatory order that could watch over the unity and regularity of the Martinist initiatory transmission. From 1887 appear documents citing the Martinist Order and in 1891, took place the first meeting of its Supreme Council of which Papus was the first president and the grand master. In his official review, "L'Initiation", founded by Papus in 1888, one noted the names of Stanislas de Guaita, Péladan, Barlet, Matgioi, Marc Haven, Sédir, de Rochas, Chamuel.

Guaita and Péladan will create an inner circle, the Kabbalistic Order of the Rose Cross, in 1889, to which Papus will affiliate himself. For Stanislas de Guaita, great philosopher, Martinism and the Rose Cross constitute two complementary forces, in all the scientific scope of the term."

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Olivier goes to one of the centres of the Brotherhood, the Bonfin, in Fréjus, in the south of France, when Master Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov is still alive. But Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov, very old, hardly comes out anymore and they will not have the opportunity to meet.

After the death of the master, the lucidity of Olivier enables him once more to see the other side of the scenery:

"This brotherhood was closed, because I would hear: 'He is not in the Brotherhood.' And I would think: 'But we, are we there?' And I had a doubt. Because the Holy Spirit can descend in this man like lightning and he will then be more advanced than we are! I was asking myself enormously many questions and I felt myself to have very pure, very clear, indisputable revelations. But these revelations demanded of me a great inner transformation. I then decided to withdraw to be alone in the mountains and to live like a hermit by practising certain exercises. I had a guide, because I was my own guide to myself. That did not mean that I did not recognize the guide of the Brotherhood, the master of this teaching, who was an authentic guide, but he was no longer there! One must have answers in the present. I thus had my experiences and one day, when I was not expecting it at all, something opened inside me and I felt that I was admitted into this Universal White Brotherhood. I then perceived that the others were not there! It is thus indeed the inner and living experience that transforms the being. One must not go towards the Teaching without wanting to be transformed."

All his experiences and his initiations accomplished with assiduity conduct him to a great clarity of thought, enabling him to understand where he is going and what he must accomplish: to pursue the work laid down by his predecessors, to make truth burst forth into broad daylight and to rekindle the flame of his tradition. He knows that he has no time to lose, that he has much work.