Hidden Unity: French Esoteric Christianity and the Western Path to Non-Duality

By James Foster PhD

"A rare synthesis of scholarly precision and initiatory insight... Stands as an important addition to the history of Western occultism and fills a long-standing gap in serious historical treatment of this current... Reveals how inner work, initiatory drama, and metaphysical vision shaped the Western path toward reintegration." -Mat Auryn, bestselling author of Psychic Witch, Mastering Witchcraft, and The Psychic Art of Tarot

Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France incubated a remarkably coherent esoteric Christianity. Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Freemasonry, Christian Kabbalah, and a revived Gnostic liturgy converged around the doctrine of r int gration-the return of all beings to Divine Unity in the Logos. Moving from Martin s de Pasqually's theurgy and Saint-Martin's interior path to L vi's symbolic synthesis, Papus's initiatory codification, and Doinel's Eucharistic vision, this book shows how a "Christian non-duality" took public form in lodges, journals, and churches. Far from a syncretic curiosity, the French tradition offers a rigorous, historically grounded account of unity that speaks fluently with Buddhism, Vedānta, and Taoism while remaining unmistakably Christian.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FTVKGJ69
• ISBN13: 9798268284966
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"