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Author : Guénon René
Title : The veil of Isis "Le voile d’Isis"
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F.-Ch. Barlet and the Initiatic Societies. F.-Ch. Barlet et les sociétés Initiatiques, April 1925. Before taking part in the beginnings of the movement which one can label as properly Occultist, F.-Ch. Barlet was one of the founding members of the first French branch of the Theosophical Society. Shortly following this, he contacted the organization widely designated by the initials H.B. of L., meaning Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, which proposed as its principal goal “the establishment of external centers in the Occident that would resurrect the rites of ancient initiations.” This organization’s claimed origin went back 4,320 years before the year 1881 of the Christian era; obviously this is a symbolic date referring to certain cyclical periods. It professed to be connected with a properly Occidental tradition, for, according to its teachings, “the Hermetic Initiates have borrowed nothing from India; the similarity that manifests between a number of different names, doctrines, and rites of the Hindus and Egyptians, far from showing that Egypt has drawn its doctrines from India, only makes it clear that the defining characteristics of their respective teachings were derived from a singular stock, and this original source was neither Indian nor Egyptian, but the Lost Island of the Occident.” As for the form taken recently by the order, here is what was said: “In 1870, a follower of the old Order, which still existed, in the original H.B. of L., with the permission of the initiates beside him, resolved to choose in Great Britain a neophyte who could properly transmit his views.” ...