MDDM23: A Grand Melange of Motive

[Dave Monroe]

"Spies were ev'rywhere, some working for this
redoubtable Lady, with her Jansenists and Philosophes,
others for Parties whose Fortunes would have
intermesh'd more and less naturally with those of any
Flying Automaton,-- the Jesuits, of course, the
British, the Prussian Military,-- along with
Detectives upon missions Bourbon and Orleanist,
Corsican Adventurers, Martinist Illuminati, a Grand
Melange of Motive...." (M&D, Ch. 37, p. 378)

Cf. "Under the Rose," V., The Crying of Lot 49,
Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland ...


Jansenists

"The theological position known as Jansenism was
probably the single most divisive issue within the
Roman Catholic church between the Protestant
Reformation and the French Revolution. The doctrine
took its name from the Flemish theologian and bishop
of Ypres, Cornelius Jansen (1585 - 1638), who
summarized his ideas on Grace and free will in his
posthumously published treatise, the Augustinus
(1640). Relying on the strictest possible
interpretation of one aspect of Saint Augustine's
philosophy, Jansen argued in favor of absolute
Predestination, in which humans are perceived as
incapable of doing good without God's unsolicited
grace and only a chosen few are believed to receive
Salvation. In this respect, the doctrine closely
resembled Calvinism, although the Jansenists always
vigorously proclaimed their attachment to Roman
Catholicism.

[...]

"Almost from the beginning, the Jansenists aroused the
hostility both of the Jesuits, who opposed the
theology and moral teachings of the group, and of the
French royal government ...."

http://mb-soft.com/believe/txc/jansenis.htm

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08285a.htm

http://www.microformat.com/mmf_publications/m471-m472-m473_descr.htm


Philosophes

"The rallying cry for the philosophes was the concept
of progress. By mastering both natural sciences and
human sciences, humanity could harness the natural
world for its own benefit and learn to live peacefully
with one another. This was the ultimate goal, for the
philosophes, of rational and intentional progress."

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/PHIL.HTM

http://www.ac-toulouse.fr/philosophie/textesdephilosophes.htm


Jesuits

http://www.jesuit.org/resources/sciences.html

http://www.jesuitsinscience.org/

http://www.faculty.fairfield.edu/jmac/sjscient.htm

http://www.luc.edu/libraries/science/jesuits/


Prussian Military

http://www.germanculture.com.ua/library/facts/bl_prussia_military_power.htm

http://tetrad.stanford.edu/Frederick.html

http://www.michaelectric.com/prussia/military.html

http://csf.colorado.edu/psn/marx/Archive/1864-IWMA/1865-d.htm


Bourbon and Orleanist

Anachronism?  Let me know ...

http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/roygenea.htm

http://www.heraldica.org/topics/bourbon.htm

http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/succession.htm

But to this day ...

http://www.monarchy.net/articles/France1.htm

And see as well ...

http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ch06.htm

http://www.mlwerke.de/me/me08/me08_176.htm


Corsican Adventurers

Again ...

http://www.napoleonbonaparte.nl/

http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/napoleon.htm

http://www.heraldica.org/topics/france/bonapart.htm

And see as well ...

Boswell, James.  An Account of Corsica, the
   Journal of a Tour to that Island; and the Memories
   of Pascal Paoli. Glasgow: R & A Foulis, 1768.

http://seneca.uab.es/scott/BOSW_700.htm


Martinist Illuminati

"Martinism is a system of mystical Christian
Illuminist philosophy and practice based upon the
transmission of an Initiation (called by Martinists
The Initiation) and the secret instruction and public
writings of French philosopher Louis-Claude de
Saint-Martin (1743-1803). St. Martin's major published
works include Of Errors and Truth, The New Man, and
The Spirit of Things. (See Waite's The Unknown
Philosopher for a complete bibliography of
St.-Martin's works.) Saint-Martin was initiated into
the Order des Elus-Cohens, an esoteric and magical
group founded by Rosicrucian and Freemason, Martines
de Pasqually (?-1774).

"Saint-Martin eventually developed a preference for
mysticism rather than for Pasqually's medieval magical
practice. Saint-Martin's system of Christian
Illuminism was derived from the Initiations he
received from Pasqually and from the transcendental
writings of Jakob Boehme and other French, British,
and German mystics. Saint-Martin privately propagated
his system by way of his personal initiation and
private instruction of his men and women students.

"The Initiation Saint-Martin transmitted included the
elements of Illumination, enlightenment, and
empowerment, as well as certain Rosicrucian elements.
By the end of the 18th century, Martinism and
Rosicrucianism were closely identified, an identity
which continues into modern times. Saint-Martin's
students eventually became known as Martinists. After
Saint-Martin's death in 1803, his students continued
to teach and initiate new students privately and
independently, just as Saint-Martin had taught them to
do. Martinist topics of study in the 18th, 19th, and
20th centuries include Christian mysticism,
esotericism, theosophy, Kabbalah, Hermeticism, and
related subjects."

http://www.rcmo.org/HistMart.html

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/1896/mart.html

http://www.icbl.hw.ac.uk/~bill/martinist.html

http://www.bmosite.org/history.htm

http://blaisdell.com/amo/martinist%20papers.htm

Which brings us back (full-circle?) to ...

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