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| Inconsistency of virtual initiations |
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... what I think, but that is my opinion, is that a true initiatory organization should never refuse the initiation to those who prove to be spiritually suitable to receive it only because they cannot afford the enrolment and a monthly fee that is beyond their possibilities. Not all initiatory organizations are the same. Fortunately there are some, in my experience, which are within everyone’s reach, rich and poor.
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| Imago Templi / 6.20 |
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The Number Ten, Harmony and the achievement of the complete state of ‘Being’.
With this paragraph we enter the 3rd Level of interpretation, that of Initiate Master Builder.
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| The Journey through the Great Work /3.2 |
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Ars Muratoria describes in detail the ‘geometry’ of a method and its instruments. These instruments hide the virtues of the Initiate’s Psyche in the allegory.
On the contrary of what we think, it is necessary to refuse and disown the exoteric isolation of the High ritual Chambers and to understand the invisible connections of the initiatory activities through which Esoteric Philosophy joins in the Scottish Pyramid the commitment of initiates of different levels and abilities.
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| The Journey through the Great Work /3.1 |
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Ars Muratoria describes in detail the ‘geometry’ of a method and its instruments. These instruments hide the virtues of the Initiate’s Psyche in the allegory.
When in the evolution of the Human Kingdom the air element of the thought got in contact with the fire element of the spirit, an aqueous and voluble element appeared in the lower levels of the mind; it still accompanies Personality up to its complete individualization. |
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| Anamnesis of the inner reawakening |
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... I wonder if being an initiate represents the "sine qua non" condition... or isn't it enough to have a pure and simple love for knowledge, beyond any material interest.
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| Being able to Choose |
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...from today I feel less lonely, your words encouraged and urged me to continue my journey...I would like to ask you another question: what do you mean by expert guide to point out the ‘goodness’ of our thoughts...or rather, where can we find a suitable person? ...I have just approached esotericism but I have already realized that there are people who don’t even know its true meaning, actual ‘charlatans’ or frauds...and I really wouldn’t like to meet ‘one’ of them....
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| Imago Templi/ Book 5 - IV part |
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The qualities of the Logoi in the Menorah (Part 2) – The Four Keys for the interpretation of the Humankind / Method – The Four Castes in the Esoteric System and the Initiatory Rule
Continuing in our journey we find the qualities of the Planets and how they manifest themselves.
The first manifestation, from the point of view of the individual – which is an inverted version of the real aspect – is made of the Aspects that manifest themselves more visibly in man and that he can recognize around himself. Indeed, man is the unconscious cause of many effects in the five Kingdoms of Nature that surround him.
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| Bataille, Nietzschean mystic of the eternal return |
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Almost all French philosophers always tried to read Nietzsche in parallel with Sade, not only along the axis Freud-Marx. The will to power and the superman are well connected with the transgressive subjectivism – ratiocentric or psychotic-oneiric – of the French libertine. There isn’t such a good connection with the Eternal Return, which is apparently a break in the Nietzschean thought. At least until Bataille; he builds his Nietzschean reading on what has been an element of difficult harmonization with the rest of the thought of the German philosopher. |
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| Genesis and evolution of the theosophical current in the European culture |
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Theosophy has often been associated with the almost homonym Theosophical Society of Madame Blavatsky, H. S. Olcott and Besant. Contrary to popular belief, though, theosophy is a current of the European esotericism that originated from Paracelsianism; it developed mainly, but not only, in Germanic countries. Although theosophists elaborated heterogeneous and varied systems, they shared some benchmarks. In this article the author intends to present the development of Christian theosophy at the debut of the T. S. |
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| Imago Templi / 6.7 |
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Esoteric reading of a Vedantine Symbol, the Cardiac Chakra seat of receptive intelligence.
The esotericist differs from the ordinary man because he doesn’t care for what appears, or as a container appears, be it a word, a concept or a symbol; least of all he embraces a biased ‘faith’; instead he tends to penetrate its synthetic and timeless substance (teaching), stripping it of the corruptible and changeable characteristics of the form with the changing of languages and interpretations.
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| Initiatory illiteracy |
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Whenever I am asked the reason of the existential impasse of Freemasonry, I answer that it is because ‘today we have plenty of words but very few ideas’.
Guenon rightly wrote that Freemasonry is the only Institution in the West able to transmit initiations. But time goes by and Freemasonry today is affected by ‘three bad fellows, which are overshadowing its principles of existence. They are the choices on proselytism, role reversal and initiatory illiteracy.
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| Distinguishing between virtual representation and reality |
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Dear Athos, I must confess that I have often wondered where the Initiates were and are inside Freemasonry. I won’t deny that I feel like having a long sleep, but my ‘thirst’ is just as big, therefore, armed with patience, I continue my journey waiting to find the fountain where I could quench my thirst...I often wondered what real initiation was, I thought that before being initiated you must ‘Die’ and that the aspirant doesn’t ‘die’ only once. Perhaps the first ‘Death’ can be as heavy as a burden and as dark as the deepest night, then a tiny light breaks the darkness; the burden becomes as light as a feather and ‘Death’ is sweet and bright... P.
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