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 | The Warrior unchanged in joy and in suffering |
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He is so absorbed in his mission that his striving carries him over all obstacles upon the wings of success.
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| Happiness, the negation of suffering |
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Happiness consists of serving the deliverance of the humankind.
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| Suffering in the initiatory Teaching |
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An oriental Master used to teach: "happiness originates from the abandonment of desire". Since unhappiness is the result of ignorance and it creates errors, we can say that suffering is the result of ignorance; on the contrary, happiness is the result of Wisdom.
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 | The Journey through the Great Work /2.5 |
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From Ars Muratoria to Ars Pontificia, solving aspect for all the issues raised by Mystic Cosmogony
So far we have outlined the contents shared by any Mystic Cosmogony; aspects of languages and emotions that every man experiences during his psychological childhood as an answer to wonderful things and in his search for the fleeting sense of life.
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| World of Noise – World of Silence |
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The Rule of Silence - Understanding the animal instinct - Lower and higher psychism - Visualization and meditation
The agent that shapes Nature with meanings is silence. Languages, as well as their degeneration, make the world of chaos. For this reason the first golden rule is the Rule of Silence. Indeed, through silence the (inwards) hearing intensifies. |
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| Reading is not enough to understand |
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| «To educate» for the initiate means most of all to exteriorize the meanings hidden by words. To read, indeed, is not enough to understand “how to do it and why”. Simple divulging is not enough to understand the practical side of the teaching. The task of divulging is merely to report ideas rather than to reveal them to the eyes of the mind. |
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 | Sense of the soul and initiatory impersonality |
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Initiatory research doesn’t respond to personal needs, but to much deeper drives. Whoever starts the journey in search of the ‘golden fleece’ is not only an Argonaut, but an instrument of the deep conscience (soul). A researcher of ‘light’ cannot help receiving and giving ‘love’.
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| Church and Freemasonry. The secret thread |
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| The Holy Roman Church bases its principles on roots shared by two other monotheistic religions deriving from Abraham’s Tribe: Hebraism, the oldest, and Islam. The ritual and symbolic origins of ancient pagan catechisms contribute to make its primacy even less absolute. Articles of faith, though, belong to the religious field and not to laic research. The only exception is the secret thread that connects Church and Freemasonry. The meanings of symbols and allegories are secret, too. |
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| The Tree of Knowledge |
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| «Those who have brought ‘Light’ to the humankind have paid their idealism dearly. The symbol of these heroes is Prometheus.» The flame of knowledge revives intelligence and it is a source of creativity.
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 | Dangers of devotion |
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| The devotional aspect has stopped many aspirants from reaching valuable goals on the initiatory way. Many books published are not the work of Masters but a result of devotion. A Master doesn’t consider devotion as a virtue; on the contrary he values a strong sense of discipline (from which the word ‘disciple’ comes from), courage (in the continuous change), determination (in applying the method) and intelligence (‘intelligere’ is to look for the sense of every word, concept and teaching, without stopping at the literal sense). |
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| Keep knocking and it will be given to you |
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| «To him who knocks it will be opened» says the rule, «to him who asks it will be given».
But proud people can’t knock and yet they expect to be listened to. |
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| How to find the world of the spiritual thought |
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