Compagnie du saint sacrement
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Lá Compagnie du Saint-Sacrement (The Company of the Blessed Sacrement) was an historical French Secret Society. Little is now known about the organisation other than it being heavily Religious and based in the Church of Saint Sulpice Paris. The society is likely to have been Esoteric/Occult in nature.
Founding
The Company of the Blessed Sacrament was a founded secret society in 1627 per Henri de Levis, duke of Ventadour. Its official goal was "to apply for the needs for next in all the extent for charity". At the beginning, Richelieu, Louis XIII, and the pope supported his creation. But, quickly, the company proved to be a tool of the typical Christian integrism of the time of the Enquiry. The company fought against libertinage and took care of the moral order. It was opposed, inter alia, with the Jansenists and did not hesitate to use the force and to make run blood to make apply its beliefs. It counted among its members of many personalities: Bossuet, which tried to limit libertinage of Louis XIV and pushed Louise of Vallière to enter to the convent, Vincent of Paul, prince de Conti Anne of Austria, mother of Louis XIV Nicolas Fouquet Guillaume de Lamoignon, the First President of the Parliament This company, which became a kind of "party of the excessively pious people" gathering a number of old slingers, started to become a countervailing power and was consequently regarded as being able to harm the law and order by Mazarin and Colbert.Banned
Louis XIV fought it while making stop one of his higher representatives, Nicolas Fouquet. Molière opposed his way it by writing Tartuffe but the queen, principal support of the Company of the Blessed Sacrament, made prohibit the part. In 1656, it is under the pressure of the party of the excessively pious people that Mazarin creates the general hospital. In 1660, Mazarin tried to remove the company by prohibiting all the secret societies, but this one resisted. The Company was finally officially dissolved by Louis XIV in 1666 after the death of the queen mother. Molière could rejouer Tartuffe without problem since 1669.
Occult
In spite of the dissolution of 1666, one finds trace of occult meetings of the organization until 1730. The Compagnie Du Saint Sacrement are believed by to have had ties with Freemasonry, The Rosicrucians, and The Order of the Knights Templar an idea set forward in The Templar Revelation by Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince.
References
- Holy Blood, Holy Grail: Michael Baigent, Richard Leigh, and Henry Lincoln (ISBN0440136482)
- : Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince (ISBN0684848910)
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