Levitikon : An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of the Doctrine of the Primitive Catholic Christians
Language: English
Published by Triad Press, LLC Apr 2026, 2026
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- Title
- Levitikon : An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of the Doctrine of the Primitive Catholic Christians
- Author
- Bernard-Raymond Fabré-Palaprat
- Publisher
- Triad Press, LLC Apr 2026
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Buch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 194681427X
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- 9781946814272
- Item weight
- 653 grams
- Dimensions
- 234x156x24 mm
Published in Paris in 1831, Bernard-Raymond Fabré-Palaprat's Levitikon is one of the most remarkable and consequential documents in the history of esoteric Christianity. At once an ecclesiastical constitution, a levitical rule, a liturgical handbook, a Gnostic Gospel, and an historical argument, it served as the foundational text of the Johannite Church of Primitive Christians - the institution through which Fabré-Palaprat, physician, former priest, and self-proclaimed Grand Master of a restored Order of the Knights Templar, sought to instantiate a vision of Christianity older, purer, and more philosophically coherent than anything Rome could offer.
The heart of the Levitikon is its presentation of the Gospel of John in two parallel columns: the standard Vulgate text on one side, and on the other a version claimed to have been preserved within the Johannite tradition of the Primitive Church - a tradition that had passed from Jesus through John the Beloved through a succession of patriarchs to the Knights Templar, and thence to Fabré-Palaprat himself. This Primitive Church Gospel differs from the received text in theologically deliberate ways: the Resurrection narrative is substantially altered, certain miracles are reinterpreted as demonstrations of initiatic science, and the overall register tends toward a rational, immanentist piety grounded in the eternal law of charity. Around this Gospel the Levitikon assembles a complete world: a nine-fold levitical hierarchy, a full Eucharistic ritual, a Symbol of Apostolic Faith, a chronological series of Sovereign Pontiffs from Jesus to Fabré-Palaprat, and supplementary documentary material including the proceedings of the General Convent of 1810, the Latin text of the Larmenius Charter, and an Analytical Abstract of a Commentary on the Apocalypse interpreting the Book of Revelation in light of eighteen centuries of history.
The Levitikon has never before been translated into English in its entirety. A partial translation of the Primitive Church Gospel appeared in 2010, but the constitutional, liturgical, doctrinal, and documentary dimensions of the work have remained inaccessible to English-speaking readers until now. The present translation is the first complete scholarly rendering of the 1831 Paris edition, including all supplementary texts, the Table of Principal Subjects, and the Extract from the Supplement.
The Translator's Introduction provides thorough scholarly context: a biography of Fabré-Palaprat; an account of the Templar documents and the founding of the restored Order; a balanced treatment of the authenticity debate surrounding the Larmenius Charter; an analysis of the Levitikon's theological program and episcopal succession; a survey of the esoteric milieu of post-Revolutionary France; and a detailed account of the divergence of Fabré-Palaprat's legacy into neo-Templar and neo-Gnostic streams - tracing the Johannite succession through Jean Bricaud and the Église Gnostique Universelle to contemporary Gnostic churches, and the Templar lineage through the OSMTJ and OSMTH to the numerous neo-Templar orders active today.
This edition will be an indispensable resource for scholars of nineteenth-century French religious history, Gnosticism, Martinism, esoteric Freemasonry, and the independent sacramental movement, as well as for practitioners within Johannite, Gnostic, and neo-Templar traditions for whom the Levitikon is not merely an historical curiosity but the charter of a living spiritual inheritance.
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