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Fournie, Pierre: Ce que nous avons ete, ce que nous sommes et ce que nous deviendrons Reproduction photomecanique de la edition London 1801. Hildesheim, Zürich, New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 1986. ISBN: 3487072750
Oeuvres complementaires et etudes Saint-Martiniennes / Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin. Serie 1, XIX siecle. Tome 3. - Un manuscrit de Philippe Encausse, fils de Papus. Faisant preuve de la plus grande humilite, l'auteur eleve de Martinez de Pasqually et admirateur de Swedenborg et de Jacob Böhme propose un guide afin de lutter contre les diverses passions qui nous assaillent. - very good condition. ISBN 3487072750

95, VIII, 375 pages, 19 cm, cloth.

[SW: Fournie, Pierre / Martinismus / Martinisten / Martinist]

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Udall, Rev. John (edited by Edward Arber): A DEMONSTRATION OF THE TRUTH, Westminster Archibald Constable and Co. 1895
123pp

very good, blue cloth (hardcover) The English Scholar's Library of Old and Modern Works. A Demonstration of the truth of that Discipline, which CHRIST hath prescribed in His Word, for the government of His Church, in all times and places until the end of the world [July--November 1588]. Printed with the secret Martinist press, at East Molesey, near Hampton Court, in July 1588; and secretly distributed with the EPITOME in the following November. For this Work, UDALL lingered to death in prison.

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MARPRELATE, Martin. [ LANDMARK IN THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH SATIRE ]A dialogue. Wherin is plainly layd open the tyrannicall dealing of Lord Bishops against Gods children. With certaine points of doctrine, wherein they approve themselves (according to Dr. Bridges his judgement) to be truely the Bishops of the Divell. Published, by the worthy gentleman Dr. Martin Mar-prelat, doctor in all the faculties, Primat and Metropolitan. [Amsterdam] Reprinted in the time of Parliament [at the Cloppenburg Press?]. 1640.

Second edition, expanded. 4to (13 x 18cm) [28]pp., title-page with early manuscript shelf-mark and contemporary signature: "John Middlemore", title-page and verso of last leaf with some light dusting, 2 nineteenth century heraldic bookplates, one subtitled "Normanton", presumably one of the Earls of Normanton, nineteenth century calf-backed boards, rebacked, spine titled in gilt. Between 1588 and 1589 a series of pamphlets issued under the spurious authorship of one "Martin Marprelate" were circulated in England lampooning ruthlessly the prelacy. "The Marprelate tracts are justly famous as a landmark in the history of English satire. For contemporaries, as well as for us, they provide delicious refreshment after so much theological tedium. But if delicious they were also seditious, and insofar as they spoke for the Puritan cause ... they were an admission of failure. To subject the bishops, as they did, to merciless ridicule has been compared to the use of poison gas in warfare, which is liable with a change of wind to blow back into the faces and lungs of those using it ... Marprelate was remembered through the first forty years of the new century even though the form of Church government he defended, Presbyterianism, had been effectively extirpated in England ... When the breakdown of ecclesiastical and print censorship came ... some Marprelate tracts were republished" (The Cambridge history of the book in Britain (2002), IV, pp. 43 & 420). Originally printed by Robert Waldegrave between May and August 1589 while he sought safety in La Rochelle in France, the arrangement of the dialogue in this pamphlet is similar in nature to John Udall's "Diotrephes" (London, Waldegrave, 1588). Though the first edition was of anonymous authorship the attribution to "Dr. Martin Mar-prelat" in this expanded reprinting reflects the still-current view that this tract was written by the same anonymous author as the other Marprelate tracts. The attack on bishops is here achieved through the use of a dialogue between a puritan, a papist, "Jacke of both sides" and an "idoll minister". The text makes numerous references to the Martinist literature itself: when Jack asks the minister how the producers disseminate these dangerous works the minister replies, "Tush, they doe well enough for that, there is a seditious fellow, one Walde-grave, who commonly prints all such books (I know him well enough) he did keep a shop at the s[i]gne of the crane in Pauls church-yard: at which time he had his presse and letters taken away from him, and destroyed for the same cause ... and now he works in corners up and down the countrey like a vagabond". The tract ends with a poem titled "the description of a Puritan". A scarce and significant satire. STC 6805.3.

[SW: EARLY ENGLISH]

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Sedir. AUFBRUCH. Remagen: Otto Reichl Verlag, 1972.

Fine copy in dust jacket. 278 pages. Text in German. By the author of INITIATION.

[SW: Rosicrucian esoteric Martinist]

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