Serge Raynaud de la Ferrière (18 January 1916 – 27 December 1962) was a French Initiatic philosopher.
He was born in Paris, France, the son of Georges Constantine Louis Raynaud, who was an engineer, and Virginie Marie Billet.
His parents moved to Brussels, Belgium when he was two years old, and his mother died there when he was only five years of age.
Although he grew up and studied in Belgium he would return to his native France in his early twenties.
[he returned to France when he was released from the army, in 1940.
This data is registered in the military files.
In 1941, he met Louise Baudin to whom he was married in 1944, and with whom he travelled to America, in 1947].
He founded the original Universal Great Brotherhood in 1948 in Caracas, Venezuela that later up today, deformed to have a sectarian nature.