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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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| Esoterical meaning of Dante’s Mountain |
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| In the Convivio, Tome II, Dante Alighieri wrote: « ...in every Work of Art there are always four meanings, the literal, the allegorical, the moral and the anagogical one (Greek anà-ago: to bring up).…» This criterion that sums up four ways of understanding an idea, gives shape to an ideal mountain to be climbed in order to reach the top and find the immaterial purity of the primogenial idea. |
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 | Secret Instructions - NO. IIIa |
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| The ritual Laver (the sacred Washing) |
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| Is there a way to “purify oneself” from the blemish of sins? There is, according to western mystic and mysteriosophical traditions. In oriental tradition, as well, it is possible to ‘wash’ the chakras from the karmic negativeness. Of course methods vary from a current of thought to another, because of their cultural difference, religious views and intimistic tendency. In spite of all, though, it’s easy to distinguish between the various exoteric methods (external and symbolic) and the esoteric one (inner and effective). This essay outlines the two methods of the “ritual laver”(sacred washing). The former is an exoteric baptism which can be repeated every time it is necessary. Therefore every day and also many times a day. It uses the water element to encourage an induced visualisation to ‘purify’ the energetic centres of the astral body. The latter is an initiatory baptism. In this the Adept uses the catalyzing power of the fire element to induce a direct visualisation which, through the use of inner light, burns the dross of the ethereal body. |
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 | The Ten Commandments |
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| Comparison between the original version of the Decalogue according the Old Testament and the version of the Catholic Church. |
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 | Psyche - First hidden instrument of the initiate |
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| If an adept smoothed the Rough Stone (character and personality) following the principles of the real Art, he would discover “hidden instruments” to use in order to “animate” the most sacred part of himself. These “hidden instruments” are inner gifts and virtues that come from the Case of Harmonicas of the Great Architect of the Universe. Freemasonry as well knows about their existence which is implied in the metaphor of the “masonry tools”. |
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 | Magic squares |
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| Apollonius of Tyana taught how a magic Square, if it is well done, gathers energy becoming a powerful talisman. For Pythagoras, Ficino, Paracelsus and many others the use of magic Squares could also be therapeutic and goes back to the old times of the Mysteries of Osiris, when the relationship between Number-Sound-Color was already known. |
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| Master Masons |
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Being Master Masons doesn’t necessarily mean being initiates. At least, not of the kind of initiation I am talking about, which comes from an inner realization very similar to a metamorphosis.
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