The Unknown Philosopher: The Life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin and the Substance of His Transcendental Doctrine

Arthur Edward Waite

R. Steiner Publications, 1901 - Biography & Autobiography - 464 pages

St. Martin (1743-1803) believed that the most important problem of all human thinking is to understand man as as free personality, whose very foundation is himself. Contents: The Life of St. Martin; Sources of Martinistic Doctrines; The Nature and State of Man; The Doctrine of the Repairer; The Way of Integration; Minor Sources of St. Martin; The Mystical Philosophy of Numbers; Prayers of St. Martin; Bibliography; Martinism and the Masonic Rites of Swedenborg. St. Martin was the successor to Jacob Boehme-an important mystic in the history light.

About the author

A.E. Waite (1857-1942) is one of the best-known authors and translators of magic and the occult. He is the creator of the Rider-Waite tarot and is the author of several books including"Book of Black Magic" and "Pictorial Keys to the Tarot

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Unknown Philosopher: The Life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin and the Substance of His Transcendental Doctrine
• Author: Arthur Edward Waite
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: R. Steiner Publications, 1901
• ISBN: 1564594858, 9781564594853
• Length: 464 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Philosophers; Biography & Autobiography / Social Scientists & Psychologists; Philosophy / Criticism; Religion / Mysticism