Louis Cattiaux (1904 – 1953) corresponded with Emmanuel (1914 – 1999) and Charles d’Hooghvorst (1924 – 2004)
Following the publication of the report on «The Message Rediscovered» by Louis Cattiaux, written by René Guénon in the French journal «Études Traditionnelles» in 1948, Emmanuel d’Hooghvorst (Bousval, 1914 – 1999), the eldest of a sibling group of six, and his younger brother Charles (Bousval, 1924 – Barcelona, 2004), came into contact with Louis Cattiaux. Very quickly, they forged a friendship that became very exclusive.
Their relationship with Louis Cattiaux was short-lived but of exceptional intensity, with letters being exchanged almost daily between Paris and Bousval and vice versa. Their correspondence lasted just over four years, until the painter and poet suddenly left this world in July 1953.
He departed, but without abandoning his new friends: he entrusted them with his «The Message Rediscovered» which condensed his profound knowledge. Philosophically very connected to one another, they shared the same quest for the jewel, following the path laid out by their friend.
In the spring of 1956, the first complete edition of «The Message Rediscovered» was published under their auspices. The work was presented by Emmanuel and Charles as Cattiaux had wished.
This encounter with him had changed their lives, and following his passing, the two brothers made tireless efforts to explain and disseminate, in the Francophone and Hispanophone worlds, the teachings contained in «The Message Rediscovered» this extraordinary work of Western hermeticism.
They are the authors of several books, lectures, and articles, aimed at bearing witness «to what they had seen and heard» so that Cattiaux’s legacy would not be buried in indifference and oblivion.
