SAINT-YVES D’ALVEYDRE
The Archeometer
Key to All the Religions
& Sciences of Antiquity
SYNTHETIC
REFORMATION OF
ALL
CONTEMPORARY ARTS
Accompanied by 5 Color Plates,
10 Portraits, & 100 Figures and Tables
Translated from the French by Ariel
Godwin
Edited & Introductory Essay
by Joscelyn Godwin
We are proud to present the first English
translation and expanded edition of the late Marquis of Saint-Yves
d’Alveydre’s ARCHEOMETER. We believe it will be well received by
all those who are interested in the author’s remarkable personality.
In his lifetime, Dr. G. Encausse,
“Papus,” expressed his great admiration for the INTELLECTUAL MASTER
whose teachings and guidance were often beneficial to him. We therefore believe
that in the “hereafter,” Papus will be the first to rejoice at this
new homage paid to the memory of Saint-Yves d’Alveydre.
Philippe Encausse
Table of Contents
The Friends of Saint-Yves................................................................................................................................... vi
Saint-Yves d'Alveydre and his Work.............................................................................................................. viii
Note......................................................................................................................................................................... x
The Origins of the Archeometer, by Joscelyn Godwin ................................................................................ xii
TRUE WISDOM.............................................................................................................................................................. 1
BOOK
Dedication............................................................................................................................................................. 3
Foreword................................................................................................................................................................ 5
PART
CHAPTER 1. Mental Regression..................................................................................................................... 11
From the Universal Verbal Synthesis to Individual Philosophy. Pagan
Instruction and Christian Education
CHAPTER 2. Error Triumphant....................................................................................................................... 17
I. Pythagoras’s Struggle against the Pagan Mentality. His Efforts
for the Reconstitution of the Protosynthesis 17
II. Pythagoras’s Successors – The Golden Verses............................................................................................ 22
III. False Pythagoreanism, Ancient and Modern. The Three Mental Races..................................................... 24
CHAPTER 3. Spiritual Death........................................................................................................................... 30
The Renaissance and the Triumph of Paganism through Modern Humanism
PART II.
God’s Wisdom and Christianity............................................................................................. 41
CHAPTER 1. The Path....................................................................................................................................... 41
I. Christian Mathesis......................................................................................................................................... 41
II. The Constitutive Criteria of the Mathesis................................................................................................... 46
First Criterion.............................................................................................................................................. 46
Second Criterion........................................................................................................................................... 47
Third Criterion............................................................................................................................................. 55
CHAPTER 2. The Truth..................................................................................................................................... 59
I. Identity of Christianity Before and After the Incarnation............................................................................. 59
II. Esoteric Christianity..................................................................................................................................... 67
CHAPTER 3. The Life......................................................................................................................................... 79
I. Humanity’s Organic Canon of Life and its Revelation.................................................................................. 79
II. Divine Life and the Revelation of the Mysteries......................................................................................... 88
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................................... 98
APPENDIX I. The Millenary Cycles............................................................................................................. 102
APPENDIX II. Influence of Paganism on the French Revolution; Demonolatry
of Charles de Secondat 103
APPENDIX III. Shema of the Dactylic Key of 5.......................................................................................... 106
Notes on the Cabalistic Tradition................................................................................................................ 107
BOOK II. Description and Study of the Archeometer................................................................ 117
CHAPTER 1. The Friends of Saint-Yves....................................................................................................... 117
CHAPTER 2. Preliminary Clarifications..................................................................................................... 119
CHAPTER 3. The Cosmological Archeometer............................................................................................ 127
I. The Archeometric Planisphere..................................................................................................................... 127
Definition................................................................................................................................................... 127
The Zones.................................................................................................................................................. 128
Basic Description....................................................................................................................................... 129
Summary of the Basic Description............................................................................................................ 132
Detailed Description.................................................................................................................................. 133
II. Speech and the Alphabets.......................................................................................................................... 139
CHAPTER 4. The Celestial Triangles.......................................................................................................... 164
I. The Astronomy of the Initiatory
II. Triangle of the Word, Jesus. Trigon of the Earth of the Principle, and
of Immanation in Him.................. 176
III. Triangle of Mary. Trigon of Living Waters, the Origin, and the Temporal
Emanation of Beings............ 184
IV. Triangle of the Holy Angels. Trigon of Ether........................................................................................... 190
V. Triangle of the Lamb or Ram. Trigon of Vivifying Fire.............................................................................. 193
CHAPTER 5. The Archeometer and Oriental Tradition........................................................................... 195
BOOK III. Applications of the Archeometer.................................................................................... 245
CHAPTER 1. Architecture.............................................................................................................................. 245
I. The Marquis of Saint-Yves’s Musical Ruler............................................................................................... 247
II. Application of the Musical Ruler to Architecture and Forms................................................................... 247
III. Biblical References.................................................................................................................................... 252
CHAPTER 2. Speaking and Musical Architecture.................................................................................... 257
The Archeometer............................................................................................................................................. 258
The Standard................................................................................................................................................... 262
The Patent....................................................................................................................................................... 269
Archeometer-Regulator................................................................................................................................... 274
Chromological Archeometer............................................................................................................................ 281
Protractor of Degrees...................................................................................................................................... 283
Music of Sounds............................................................................................................................................. 286
Plates............................................................................................................................................................... 293
Conclusion........................................................................................................................................................ 301
Appendices. Further Writings on the
Archeometer………………………………………...303
Appendix II. Saint-Yves
d’Alveydre and the Archeometer. By Jean Reyor (pseudonym of Maurice
Clavelle)
Appendix III.
Kabbalistic Theory of Music. By Rouxel
Appendix IV. On the
“Theogony of the Patriarchs.” By T. Basilide (pseudonym of Patrice
Genty)
Appendix V. The
Sorbonne Library’s: Saint-Yves d’Alveydre Collection. By Robert
Amadou
Figures
and Tables
Archeometric Ornament.................................................................................................................................... 58
Standard of the Word...................................................................................................................................... 101
Vibrations........................................................................................................................................................ 105
Vibrations........................................................................................................................................................ 107
Zodiac of DENDERAH.................................................................................................................................. 108
Zodiac of DENDERAH (detail)...................................................................................................................... 109
Sanksrit Alphabet............................................................................................................................................ 111
Alphabet of XXII Letters............................................................................................................................... 113
Vibrating Plate................................................................................................................................................. 115
Vibration.......................................................................................................................................................... 118
The Archeometer............................................................................................................................................. 119
Vibration Vessel.............................................................................................................................................. 121
The Archeometer (color plates)............................................................................................................... 122-126
The Archeometer............................................................................................................................................. 127
Musical Cosmological Ring............................................................................................................................. 131
Vattan Alphabet.............................................................................................................................................. 142
Adam-Eve........................................................................................................................................................ 143
Lunar Alphabet........................................................................................................................................ 145-146
Zodiac of the Speech....................................................................................................................................... 147
Cosmological Tablature of XXII Letters......................................................................................................... 149
The 12 Zodiacal Letters.................................................................................................................................. 150
Planetary and Zodiacal.................................................................................................................................... 153
Morphological and Arithmological Letters..................................................................................................... 154
Arithmology of the XXII Letters............................................................................................................ 156-158
The Archeometer (central part)....................................................................................................................... 163
Astronomical Zodiac....................................................................................................................................... 164
Astrosophy.............................................................................................................................................. 167-175
Triangle of Jesus.............................................................................................................................................. 176
Catholic Feasts and the Archeometer.............................................................................................................. 182
Chapel............................................................................................................................................................. 183
Triangle of Mary............................................................................................................................................. 184
The Virgin Mary............................................................................................................................................. 189
Triangle of the Holy Angels............................................................................................................................ 190
Untitled engraving........................................................................................................................................... 192
Triangle of the Ram......................................................................................................................................... 193
Sanskrit Alphabet............................................................................................................................................ 195
The Archeometer and Sanskrit........................................................................................................................ 196
The Zend Avesta............................................................................................................................................. 198
Star of the Word.............................................................................................................................................. 219
Trigrams of Fo-Hi........................................................................................................................................... 224
Watan Alphabet and Double Transcription.................................................................................................... 226
Hieroglyphic alphabets of XXII letters (Hieroglyphic and Hebrew)............................................................. 229
Ishwara............................................................................................................................................................ 233
Eastern Zodiac................................................................................................................................................. 244
The Archeometric Standard............................................................................................................................. 247
Greek Chapel................................................................................................................................................... 248
Romanesque Chapel........................................................................................................................................ 250
Tabernacle and
Decorative Art (Archeometer)........................................................................................................................ 256
Angelic Salutation.................................................................................................................................... 259-261
The Archeometric Standard............................................................................................................................. 262
Vibrating Plates............................................................................................................................................... 264
Natural Diverse Crystallization and Morphology.......................................................................................... 265
Vibrating Plate................................................................................................................................................. 266
The La String................................................................................................................................................... 267
The Standard................................................................................................................................................... 271
Application of the Standard to Architecture, La string.................................................................................. 274
5th Style or Grand Style................................................................................................................................. 275
CHURCH. Musical framework of the floor plan and elevations.................................................................... 276
CHURCH. Principal Façade........................................................................................................................... 277
4th Style (Neo-Gothic)................................................................................................................................... 278
CHURCH – Lateral façade.............................................................................................................................. 279
Vases............................................................................................................................................................... 280
Protractor of Degrees...................................................................................................................................... 283
The Archeometric Square................................................................................................................................ 285
Music and the Archeometer............................................................................................................................ 286
The Musical Notes.......................................................................................................................................... 286
Zither............................................................................................................................................................... 287
Musical Squares....................................................................................................................................... 287-289
Musical Clef and Staff..................................................................................................................................... 290
Chalice...................................................................................................................................................... 291-292
GREAT CHAPEL. Floor plan (ogival style).................................................................................................. 293
GREAT CHAPEL. Façade (ogival style)................................................................................................ 294-295
GREAT CHAPEL. Detail of the Porch and Gate of Entry (ogival style)...................................................... 296
GREAT CHAPEL. Section (ogival style)....................................................................................................... 297
GREAT CHAPEL. Section............................................................................................................................. 298
GREAT CHAPEL (ogival style).................................................................................................................... 299
GREAT CHAPEL. Façade and Section.......................................................................................................... 300
Harmonic
Vibrations…………………………………………………………………………….…………...302
the following appendicies represent new work
available only in this edition:
Appendix II. Saint-Yves d’Alveydre and the
Archeometer. By Jean Reyor (pseudonym of Maurice Clavelle)
Appendix III. Kabbalistic Theory of Music. By Rouxel
Appendix IV. On the “Theogony of the
Patriarchs.” By T. Basilide (pseudonym of Patrice Genty)
Appendix V. The Sorbonne Library’s: Saint-Yves d’Alveydre Collection.
By Robert Amadou