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The de Grainville Manuscripts (1)

Created on: 2024-10-18
This work is of significant importance and beautifully reproduces both the original manuscripts and directly represents what Pierre-André de Grainville (1728-1794) wrote (and, most valuably, deleted).

The contents have been faithfully reproduced and directly translated, including the many deletions and annotations of the specific numbers referred to throughout the document. This is the most ‘completely incomplete' version achievable. Why is this so important? The well-intentioned ‘revival' of the Élus Coën by Robert Ambelain was assembled from incomplete source documents, using the spiritual transmission and lineage passed on via the secret Chevalier Profès and Grand-Profès grades of the Rite Écossais Rectifé of Willermoz, which continue to be preserved within some of the regular masonic iterations of French Freemasonry. The path and training of a Coën is necessarily long and requires guidance, personal devotion and instruction. It is, therefore, immediately apparent that Ambelain heavily utilised de Grainville's manuscripts in his reconstitution. What also becomes evident is the number of gaps that he filled, and reflecting upon these, one interprets the substituted material differently. Indeed, for these reasons neither the Recuil d'hiéroglyphes nor the Table alphabétique des 2400 noms of the Fonds Prunelle de Lière have been included in this book.

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