Tritemius appears at Renaissance’s dawn and fosters its scientific aspect by becoming the father of outstanding humanists.
He was born on February 1, 1462 and died on December 13, 1518. His true name was Heidenberg, though he was known as Tritemius (John), or Trittenheim (Germany) after the place of his birth.
Paracelsus was born in Einsiedeln, Switzerland; his father was a prestigious physician; he guided his first steps in science by taking him later to Carintia, where practically he learnt in mines and forges the properties of metals that were so useful for him as the foundation of a methodical study of therapeutic elements.
It is impossible to speak of the life of Pascal not describing previously Port Royal, which was so closely linked with the soul and mission of this Great Initiate.
In 1602, when the new abbess Angelique Arnaud, at the age of 11, entered the ancient monastery of Citeaux, nobody suspected that a new era started for the church of France, and for the spiritual development of Christendom.
Emmanuel Swedenborg was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on January 29, 1688, and died in London on March 29, 1772.
Son of a Lutheran Bishop, he completed his studies in Upsala, and in 1709 he moved to England where he devoted himself entirely to scientific researches, revealing a marked predilection for Newton and his theories.
Called “The Unknown Philosopher”, the pseudonym he adopted for his writings, he was born in Amboise (France), on January 18, 1743, in a family of the Nobility. He was educated by his father according to serious costumes of those days, and by his stepmother, since his mother had died in giving birth to him; the former did it with such tenderness that this impression would be decisive in the future for his affections.
Saint Martin is the connection between mystical lodges of the French pre-Revolution and social lodges of the liberal time.
By the end of the eighteen century, France was full of Masonic lodges founded by Cagliostro and, near Paris, in Versailles, Martines de Pasqualis had founded those lodges that later would be named lodges of the Philaletes and Great Prophets.