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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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 | 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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 | The constellations of the zodiac in alchemy /3 |
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Cancer - Leo - Virgo
We have seen that in the sign of Gemini those couples of opposites are established, the «individual directions» that help man orient himself in the world. In the sign of Cancer the beings choose the place where to be, their « abode’ along any directions and between any couple of opposites.
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| The inspiring Muses and the esoteric meaning of senses |
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The inspiring Muses – The energetic centers of man – The senses in the development of conscience – The esoteric meaning of the senses
The Muses, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, symbolize the instruments of knowledge, the senses, which inspire any manifestation of thought, art and science. The senses are the instruments used by the individual relate with the environment around him; thanks to them he gains experience and consciousness and he expands his knowledge.
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| The first occult center of initiation |
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| Eastern tradition in its purest form teaches us to explore the highest levels of knowledge, starting with recognizing and realizing the inner reasons that can join mind and will for action. The reason of the aspirant is to start the first occult center of initiation, viz. the cardiac center. From here the process of energetic and emotional cleansing starts. |
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| The constellations of the zodiac in alchemy /2 |
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Aries - Taurus - Gemini
We have already said that we intend to follow the journey of the 12 signs of the zodiac from the point of view of the ‘traveler’. The sign of Aries is the archetype of any possible beginning and it draws its symbolic meanings from the legend of the Golden Fleece, from the lamb carried on the shoulders by the god Hermes, from the sacrifice of the lamb to announce or to propitiate a period of resurrection and renewal.
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| The constellations of the zodiac in alchemy /1 |
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| The ‘symbolic animals’ by definition are those that populate the zodiac, a word that comes from the Greek ‘zodiakos’, i.e. ‘zoon diakos’, ‘wheel or circle of animals’.
Since the dawn of time men who looked at the sky saw (or rather projected) mythological animals and events on the celestial constellations.
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 | Personal mind, egotistic reason and mind of the soul |
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| Actually, pure Reason and Gnosis (see Illumination) are real and reachable states of consciousness and it is true that most people have reached them. |
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