Пернети, Антуан Жозеф

Antoine Joseph Pernety AKA Dom Pernety France 1716 – 1796 Teachers: Pythagoras; Hermes Trismegistus; Michael Maier; Arnoldus de Villa Nova; Raymond Lull; the Arab Sage Gerber; Basilius Valentinus; Nicolas Flamel; Thomas Vaughan AKA Eugenius Philalethes ; George Starkey AKA Eirenaeus Philalethes; Emanuel Swedenborg; the Spirit Guide Assadai; Johann Daniel Muller (1716-1786) AKA "Holy Word"; Polish Count Tadeusz Grabianka; Bernard of Trevisan; Jean d'Espagnet AKA Spagnetus; Students: J.M. Ragon; Claude Antoine Thory ; Friends: Hans Heinrich von Ecker und von Eckihoffem; Frederick the Great of Prussia; Louis Antoine de Bougainville, explorer; Enemies: Cornelius de Pauw; Jan Snoek; Organizations: Catholic Church; Benedictine; after he left the order, Freemason, Lodge La Royal York de l'Amitie of Berlin; Scottish Rite of Freemasonry; The Illumines d'Avignon, 1760; Academy of True Masons 1778. Consisted of these degrees: 1. The True Mason, 2. The True Mason in the Right Way, 3. Knight of the Golden Key, 4. Knight of Iris, 5. Knight of the Argonauts, 6. Knight of the Golden Fleece. Concerned with Alchemy, it later became the Russo-Swedish Academy; Author: Mytho-Hermetic Dictonary, 1758; Egyptian and Greek Fables Unveiled and Reduced to the Same Principle; The Marvels of Heaven and Hell and the Planetary and Astral territories, 1782; TREATISE ON THE GREAT ART (see - http://darkbooks.org/pp.php?v=510493804); Comments: Mythology; Hermetic philosophy; Illuminism; "chrysopheia" or the Universal Medicine, the Stone of the Wise; Alchemy;learned native medicine in the Falkland Islands off South America; created the Rite Hermetique consisting of the 3 Blue Lodge degrees, and first 6, then 7 addition degrees. The 4th was The Knight of the Golden Key with Alchemical symbolism, and the 7th was the Knight of the Sun, later adapted for the 27th and 28th degrees of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry; evolved into the Rite Ecossais philosophique (the Rite of the Scottish Philosophers), 1776, which developed the 8th True Mason, or Academie des Vrais Maçons degree. Incorporated Hermes Trismegistus's philosophy on Alchemy into Freemasonry; In this he seems influenced by the Elus Cohens of Freemasonry and then he influenced the Martinists; Resources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine-Joseph_Pernety; The Invisible History of the Rosicrucians: the world's most mysterious secret society by Tobias Churton, 2009 ; http://books.google.com/books?id=ApuE1tEMBuYC&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=Rite+Hermetique&source=bl&ots=G2Gv_cBdsb&sig=XLGtjxQCf51aStZbPis4ebbBfcI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4RqlUOPrHYeO2wWXwoGYAQ&ved=0CDQQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&q=Rite%20Hermetique&f=false; http://www.freemasons-freemasonry.com/high_degrees_freemasonry.html