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 | A Synthesis of Alchemy |
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| The ancient authors who understood this divine Art veiled spiritual truths using chemical terminology and chemical truths using theological references, so that without the master key of correspondence, ‘as above, so below,’ it is difficult to know where to begin. There are secrets on both sides of the equation... |
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 | The Metaphor of the Widow |
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| The material body (physical form) in the esoteric interpretation is the Widow, whose children are the spirits of the men that live in it. In the solar (or dry) way they look for the reunification with the Spirit of the Monad (the inner God, Son or reflection of the greater God) and with it the restoration of the ‘primitive state’. |
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 | The Do and the Way of the Warrior |
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| ...I often think that the Way (the Do) coincides with what you call the ‘Path that leads man from the emotional Chaos of passions to the quiet and detached wisdom of the inner order’?... |
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| Freemasonry and the Theosophical Society |
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| …in an article appeared on the Masonic magazine Officinae (n. 4/11) titled ‘Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society’, the author sings the praises of the well known counter-initiatory association…don’t you agree with me in thinking that it goes a bit too far? M. |
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 | Manifesto of the Theosophical Society |
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| The Theosophical Society was founded in New York on 17th November 1875 by H. P. Blavatsky and H. S. Olcott; it became a nonprofit corporation in Madras on 3rd April 1905. It lacks any sectarian spirit and it is made of people who look for the truth, who try and serve the spiritual life of the humankind and, for this purpose, they make an effort to stop materialism and make spiritual aspiration re-live. |
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| Experience as a result of mistakes |
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| Philosophia |
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| By studying the symbol of Philosophia, I gained the following teaching: Freemasonry’s aim consists essentially in reaching balance. |
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 | Cleansing the chakras |
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| Devotional traditions believe that mortification, repentance and prayer ‘purify' the taint of sin. Initiatory traditions rely on special procedures to ‘cleanse' the chakras and relieve the karmic negativities. This essay shows two methods to obtain the ‘inner laver'. |
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| The initiatory path and the symbol of the ‘Salmon' |
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| …why compare the Adept to a Salmon? |
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| How to find oneself |
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| Reasonably, there are many debates about ‘instruments and methods of growth’. Nobody as yet has mentioned where to find the energy to expand the instruments, which are metaphors of mental, animistic and spiritual aspects.
…when planning a route the only useful thing is to expound the details, that is what to do and how to do it.
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| Ancient mysteries and the New Era – part 2 |
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| Inside the Egyptian sacerdotal caste there was a double level: on one side the wide external circle of priests, believers and all those who wanted to approach knowledge and occult sciences; on the other side a close circle that could be accessed through a rite of initiation. Something similar happened in Greece; from many authoritative sources we know about the myth of Eleusis, where initiations to Small and Great Mysteries occurred. |
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| The Fourth Element of Initiation |
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| Q: … Well, as the apprentice that I am, I keep quiet and listen… |
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