Here is a small jewel in the history of philosophy, capable of corroborating the brilliance of Muray according to which "The unconscious has no language structure, the occult which is the true language searching under the structures "(The nineteenth century through the ages, p.219). With a precise and picked study approach Benz infighting of theosophy, true laboratory, as stimulating as terrible, philosophy itself. Successor of Martinez Pasqually - the instigator of Martinism, with its "cult" of "Elus Coen," introducing the myth of Hiram and the occult in Freemasonry - Saint-Martin has inspired the German idealist philosophers, first Hegel, Schelling especially, and inspired the Friedrich Schlegel conversion to Catholicism, which is not nothing. Import of Saint-Martin, maintained by the effort of the "Unknown Philosopher" itself to seize German mysticism, thanks to his translations of Jakob Böhme, the famous "shoemaker of Görlitz," has mainly caused the outbreak German theosophical thought, between the rationalists, anticlerical, as Adam Weishaupt ("enlightened" in Bavaria), fiercely anti-Jesuits, and pietists, often Lutherans, very wary of the Enlightenment, very attracted to the Martinist thought, the same one who lived Maistre or Balzac. Besides the classic work of Gusdorf (Romanticism, Volume 1: The romantic knowledge), as a supplement, we can deepen this "ontology of secret" with admirable thesis of Auguste Viatte, Occult sources of Romanticism, Enlightenment - Theosophy 1770-1820 in 2 volumes: Volume 1, The Pre-Romanticism; Volume 2, the generation of the Empire, definitely worthy of accomplishing this "second sight" of Muray: "The more God is gone, more philosophy in effect becomes more poetic and romantic are the abyss." (The nineteenth century through the ages, p.367), affecting decisively the thorny problem of secularization.
