SAINT-YVES D’ALVEYDRE

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The Archeometer

Key to All the Religions

& Sciences of Antiquity

SYNTHETIC REFORMATION OF

ALL CONTEMPORARY ARTS

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Accompanied by 5 Color Plates,

10 Portraits, & 100 Figures and Tables

Translated from the French = by Ariel Godwin

Edited & Introductory E= ssay by Joscelyn Godwin

We are proud to present the first Engl= ish 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.<= o:p>

In his lifetime, Dr. G. Encausse, “Papus,” expressed his great admiration for the INTELLECTUAL MA= STER whose teachings and guidance were often beneficial to him. We therefore bel= ieve 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 Encau= sse

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 I. Introduction to the Study o= f the Archeometer.........................= ................................... 3

Dedication.....................= ...........................................................................= ............................................................. 3

Foreword.......................= ...........................................................................= .............................................................. 5

PART I. Man’s Wisdom and Paganism.....= ...........................................................................= ................... 11

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

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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; Demonolat= ry of Charles de Secondat 103

APPENDIX III. Shema of the Dactylic Key of 5.................................................................= ......................... 106

Notes on the Cabalistic Tradition

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 Temples of Antiquity........................= .................................................... 164

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………………………&= #8230;……………...303

Appendix I. = THE ARCHEOMETER. From La Gnose (1909-1911).&nb= sp; Signed “T.” by the authors (René Guénon and Alexandre-Thomas Marnès). ..........................................= ...........................................................................= ..............................................

Appendix II. Sa= int-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 Patr= ice 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<= span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-no-= proof: yes'>

Vibrations.....................= ...........................................................................= ........................................................ 107<= span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-no-= proof: yes'>

Zodiac of DENDERAH.............= ...........................................................................= .......................................... 108

Zodiac of DENDERAH (detail)....= ...........................................................................= ....................................... 109

Sanksrit Alphabet..............= ...........................................................................= ................................................... 111

Alphabet of XXII Letters.......= ...........................................................................= ............................................. 113<= /p>
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 Temple..........................................= ...........................................................................= .............. 252

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<= span style=3D'font-size:12.0pt;mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-no-= proof: yes'>

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………………………&#= 8230;…………………………= ……………………….…R= 30;……...302

the following appendicies represent new work avail= able only in this edition:

Appendix I. THE ARCHEOMETER. From La Gnose (1909-1911). Signed “T.” by t= he authors (René Guénon and Alexandre-Thomas Marnès).

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Appendix II. Saint-Yves d’Alveydre and the Archeometer. By Jean Reyor (pseudonym of Maurice Clavelle)

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Appendix III. Kabbalistic Theory of Music. By Rouxel=

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Appendix IV. On the “Theogony of the Patriarchs.” By T. Basilide (pseudonym of Patrice Genty)

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Appendix V. The Sorbonne Library’s: Saint-Yves d’Alveydre Collecti= on. By Robert Amadou