Finally! The long awaited English version of, "The Man of Desire." The French writer and mystic-philosopher, Robert Amadou once asserted that "Of all the writings of Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin, "the Man of Desire" is the best written, even though it sometimes feels a little too much..." It is in this work that the Unknown Philosopher, the most influential Western mystic of the Age of Enlightenment, presents in an unparalleled poetic genius all the main themes of the martinist doctrine according to which the human being committed the crime of moving away from God and fell into the material world. In so doing, he somehow fell asleep to the spiritual world, and his inner Temple is in ruins. Thus, he has to rebuild it. For, even though he has lost his first power, he still retains the germ of it, and it is only up to him to make it grow again.Regaining this paradise state that made the human being a manifested Thought, Word, and Action of God, such is the Martinist quest. Becoming a man of desire is to want to rebuild his inner temple and reintegrate his divine origin. A Man of Desire is the one who seeks his primitive purity. His desire is the Desire of God. Saint-Martin said on this matter: "There is nothing as common as the envy and as rare as the desire."It is in this work that you are going to discover the various texts constituting the foundation of the much talked about "Way of the Heart," so dear to Martinists of all creeds, which was drawn by the Unknown Philosopher to pave the path, par excellence, leading to reintegration.