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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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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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 | The Way of the Fool – metaphor of the self-initiation |
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| For the esotericist the Fool is a Lama of the Tarots (Lamas of the God Toth, conceptually far away from the common game of tarots); the meanings belonging to this card are quite different from the literal ones.... |
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| The dimensions of appearance |
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| Q : ...Orientals talk about several bodies, such as physical, double ethereal, astral, mental and spiritual. The soul is not considered; is it perhaps identified with the astral body? |
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| Initiation and male and female initiation |
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| Q.: …I need to understand better the theme of the female initiation… certain obediences have mixed lodges… A. |
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| Listening, Seeing, Thinking – the first initiatory virtues |
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| It is necessary to discover which instruments are contained in the Case of the Great Architect of the Universe, as the perennial Teaching tells us.
This Case and its instruments are the real touchstone for the Apprentice Master.
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| Modernism, paradox of ancient mysteries |
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| I think that there can be several convergences between the crudeness of realism and the polemic verve of perennialism. Especially if they are expressed with a rigor similar to science rather than close to the passional and compromising criterion of ignorant cicisbei wearing loud scarves.
To ‘call a spade a spade’ is an attitude unwelcome in the ‘upper-class salons’ of certain Masonic groups. |
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| First causes of emotional oscillation |
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| Summer solstice, feast of Light |
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| We know that the term Light can be interpreted from many points of view, such as creativity, wisdom, beauty, intuition, heat, love, magnetic attraction, knowledge. In any case it is a group of virtues that we might consider as the unit of measurement of the real progress of every man in the initiatory scale, which is expression of his own conscience development |
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