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“How, then, O Lord, to spread Thy Teaching? How, then, O Lord, to find those for whom it is predestined to apply Thy Word for fulfillment?”
And the Lord said in reminder, “A hermit searched for one to whom to entrust the Revelation. And he took the scroll and placed it at the crossroad ....
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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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 | The Dome of Initiation |
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| I believe that the method for initiatory enquiry of Freemasonry can be summed up by the expression: ‘nosce te ipsum’, written on all our temples...but in knowing ourselves...what prevents a real introspective image is the activity of our ego...which is the first great obstacle. Indeed, V.I.T.R.I.O.L., by rectifying ourselves (heaven knows how many times) we will be able to reach the occult stone...using the plumb line like a line that stabs our ‘skin’...visiting the interiority... if we don’t deconstruct our own mind, we will turn into logorrheic people who, four times a month, meet in a certain place to discuss the sex of angels.... |
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| Michel Foucault and the «death of man» |
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| Together with Deleuze, Michel Foucault has been the main exponent of the French studies on the Nietzsche-Renaissance that marked the start of post-structuralism. The word described a varied group of scholars coming from several disciplines, influenced by the linguistic structuralism of Saussurre and the anthropologic one of Lèvi Strauss. |
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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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| The 'Trial of Fire' |
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Q: …May I ask you to describe the ‘Trial of Fire’ in detail? Thank you. R.
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| From the Flaming Pentalpha to the Sign of the Goat |
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| Freemasonry gathers symbols with a great ethical, esoteric and philosophical value; among them there is the five-pointed Star. The result of the elaboration of the pentalpha is the Flaming Pentalpha, which is a splendid representation of the initiatory condition. Female Freemasonry uses it as well, but upside down, giving itself a sinister feature. |
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| Where did Masonic Solidarity get to? (part 2 - ESOTERICISM EPISTLES - IV) |
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| In the century of ‘open society’ where can esotericism be placed, intended as a secret teaching? It is our duty, I think, to wonder if it makes any sense to talk about esotericism ‘today’ or if, on the contrary, we need to focus on new syntheses. Neurosciences and physics of the infinitely small make past ‘secret’ doctrines obsolete; perhaps they still have their charm, also thanks to their intuitions, but they are indeed obsolete… no doubt. In other words, the background where ‘initiatory societies’ operate is very different from that of Pythagoras, of the builders of cathedrals, of Dee and Ashmole, Anderson and so on. We must leave the return to the past to Harry Potter. On the contrary, let’s ask ourselves what it means to be ‘initiates’ in the twenty-first century and what can the Mysteries be. |
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| Imago Templi / 6.4 |
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The Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem – Lucis Fratres: the Brothers of Light. Anno Domini 1400 – Code Book of the Sovereign Military Order of the Temple of Jerusalem – Code Book of the Knights Kadosh or ‘Kadeschim’ – Code of Kilwinning, Scottish Mother Lodge – Masonic and Royal Arch Codes – Codes of the Sovereign Princes Rose Cross and Knights of the Eagle and of the Pelican, mason Princes and the Codex Rosae Crucis – Manifest characteristics of the Templar Bro. and of the Rose Cross Bro.
In the 14th century two initiatives of the Rose Cross confraternity started out; they marked the re-emergence of Gnosis in the philosophical thought of the western hemisphere. |
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