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On the Road to Monsegur
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“The location looks magnificent and very well found.
I hope Joe will help you well in France, otherwise don't hesitate to contact me if you need anything.
I intend to help you in my absence and to do this, I am currently buying 2 books about the Polars:
"La Fraternité des Polaires" by Richard Kaczynski
"In the Wake of the Astral Force: LA FRATERNITÉ DES POLAIRES" by Milko Bogard
I'll be sure to let you know if there are any mentions of specific aspects of your trip.
I also have a proposition for you:
It involves making available to you, and to your paying readers, a personal translation - part by part - of the book I mentioned to you, namely "La chevalerie amoureuse - Troubadours, félibres et rose-croix" (Loving chivalry - Troubadours, félibres and rose-croix).
The book includes the original manuscript as well as a commentary - dedicated to Otto Rahn, by the way - but this translation will initially include only the manuscript because of the great complexity and length of this work, which I know you will appreciate.
The manuscript comprises 108 paragraphs, which I will provide in 9 parts of §12.
Here are the first 12 paragraphs :
This work will be an excellent opportunity for you to delve more deeply into the Provençal sources of Otto Rahn's story in his Lucifer's Court (he didn't talk to just anyone in his book, even if he claimed to) in parallel with your journey, but also for your readers to accompany you by having exclusive publications found nowhere else in this language, which I undertake to provide you with every day or two if I can.
I know that you have a lot to do and that it will take you some time, but I'll let you judge this proposal for yourself by taking the time to read it.
Wishing you all the best for your stay.”
Romain
* The back cover presents the manuscript as follows:In the early 1920s, two of the greatest Hermetists of our time, Jacques-Émile Émeritand Henri Coton-Alvart, met at Pierre Dujols' house. This erudite bookseller, in whomsome contemporary authors thought they recognised Fulcanelli, taught them thefundamentals of Hermetism.J-E. Émerit was a doctor, H. Coton-Alvart a chemist. Their friendship lasted untilÉmerit's death.Pierre Dujols entrusted Jacques-Émile Émerit with one of the two manuscripts he hadwritten on chivalry. This little masterpiece examines the secret links that, from thetroubadours to the cathedral builders and from the Templars to the Cathars, are atthe origin ofa sacred language. This language, known to initiates as the 'languageof birds', draws its conceptual inspiration from the most ancient sources of Greece,Egypt and, beyond that, the Orient of the Magi, which witnessed the birth of pureLight: Christ-Hermes, whose power, the key to perfect gnosis, radiates to the heart ofthe three worlds.
* La Chevalerie AmoureuseTroubadours,Félibresand RosicruciansText by Pierre Dujols de Valois§1.Saint Estelle, patron saint of the Félibres, was celebrated in the year of grace 1923 amidextraordinary effervescence. The whole Midi endiablé-daemon meridianus-was in turmoil, and itsfever is far from subsiding. The cause of this excitement is not trivial: At a time when, perhaps wrongly,the supreme battle was being fought "that will deliver us from the Greeks and Romans", the Félibresintervened in the struggle for the introduction of Provençal to the curriculum of classical studies, thelanguage of the gods according to Mistral, the language of the Temple according to the wise author ofPoliphilo's Dream, the 'esotica lingua', the language of love condemned by Pope Innocent IV,