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The constitution of the Lesser language and the Greater language in the esoteric Commentaries – Recognition of the inner Hierarchy.
In their exoteric version the Commentaries contain images-inhabitants-interpreters with totally anthropomorphic traits, qualities, characteristics, appearances and customs, identical to the low quality human model that, on the contrary, should have inspired higher goals.
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 | The path that leads to the initiatory Mastery |
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| The path that leads to the initiatory Mastery is a path of wisdom. And, as we know, wisdom originates from "knowledge".
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| New Era |
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| We have entered the 3rd Millennium accompanied by very meaningful signals; one of them involves the spreading of the initiatory education.
The method of service of the new era, which is always directed to the benefit of the humankind, remains focused on the Restoration of the Ancient Mysteries. |
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 | From magnetic attraction to the moment of "making one's own choice" |
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In a recent session I attended, it has been given considerable credit to the idea that curiosity is the spark that drives a person to embark on the masonic journey. After careful consideration I completely disagree with this concept. I think curiosity is rather a consequence of much deeper factors than the prime cause.
But which are the motives that lead to choose the journey of Freemasonry first and then stay on it or leave it?
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| Imago Templi /6.16 |
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666 The number of the Matter
The Number Six is the number of the material counterpart that represents the Spiritual essence in the three Planes of existence. Therefore 6-6-6.
The lowest material counterpart in man is his Astral Body, with its instincts and passions. |
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| Imago Templi / 6.9 |
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The Essential Numbers of the Masonic Work and the minimal rules of their Archaic Symbolism – The evolution of the art of Numbers in the Western school – Two procedures to reveal the ‘secret of a Number’.
When changing the language used so far and creating a more essential ‘form’, we should find an agreement on the minimal value to give the concepts we will find in those new aspects of number, symbol and sound.
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| Imago Templi / Book II |
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The space that marks the Masonic Temple off is divided by three rectangular perimeters. The first of the three rectangles is symbolical and it is the Lodge Picture; the second, energetic, is emanated from the Squaring of the Temple created by the Brothers and re-absorbed at their Ritual exit. Finally, the third is represented by the physical form of the Temple.
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| Rings of Strength |
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| The mental strength of a man becomes a ring of strength that, by joining with other rings, makes an energetic chain whose combination of strength and quality equals the sum of the rings. The similitude in this instance is very important; a different mental intensity prevents the rings from communicating and makes the strength of will, mind and conscience intransmissible. If the rings are compatible, on the other hand, the chain is strong and its energy can build an eggregore. |
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| Analogy with a living symbol – the Way of the Salmon |
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| Old Commentaries often use metaphors of animals to express particular abilities.
The Lion is an example; it is used to symbolize the boldness and the fighting courage.
Some Masters have veiled important teachings in images, using animals such as the Elephant, the Tortoise, the Eagle, the Tiger, the Seagull, the Gazelle, etc.
In this tradition the image of the Salmon indicates the man who ‘searches’; like the others, it veils the sense of the initiatory postulate.
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| Doubt, uncertainty and self-esteem. Different stages of the inner aspect |
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| Uncertainty is the companion of insecurity; the doubt of the coward cannot be compared to the caution of the researcher. This difference offers us some basic principles. First, that doubt can be synonym of caution; second that doubt can also be a symptom of uncertainty and lack of self-esteem. |
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| Illnesses of the soul and ‘illnesses’ of the Gods: the marks of time |
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| ‘I had a dream: I imagined I was a soul that has come back from the ancient Greek world, the soul of an initiate to the mysteries of Dionysus who has been given the chance to cast a glance at the modern world. What would strike me most? Which transformations of our way of living and feeling would attract my attention?
Some ‘diseases’ are described; in the popular imagery they were suffered by three gods of the Greek pantheon, Dionysus, Mercury and Apollo. The modern world has ‘forgotten’ the intelligence of the heart; it has been replaced by empty sentimentality. The ability to interiorize experiences has been sacrificed to the myth of speed. The riddance of death and of the relationship with the matter condemns western civilization to lose any contact with the Beauty and the mystery of the world, replaced by false rationality.’ |
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| The initiation to women’s cults in the Mysteries of the ancient world /1 |
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| In the ancient world it was believed that the Isiac, luminous, sapiential and transforming aspect was potentially present in every woman, but that it had to be reawakened through the initiation to Mysteries. Furthermore, initiation to the Mysteries put the neophytes in contact with the powers of fertility and regeneration, through a passage by death and afterlife, as we will see. |
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