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Question&Answer > Homo Religiosus (ESOTERICISM EPISTLES - I)
by (351 reads) |  ...I don't have any more illusions about the relation between Freemasonry and initiation. I am absolutely positive that for contemporary man it is rather impossible to transcend anything (the oriental man as well as the occidental man). Furthermore the possibility of an ‘esotericism' or an ‘initiation', at least in Freemasonry, concerns a trite dualistic ontology of a Platonic kind, viz. the ‘essences' up there and the ‘imperfect copies' down here, which contemporary thought has overcome a long time ago....
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Question&Answer > Salmon and Water – an initiatory trial
by (411 reads) | The Salmon must ‘return’, viz. ‘go back’, which means to go ‘inside’ and if it ‘returns’ it is only to ‘generate’ … What else but the New Man?
Why do you use a fish to represent ‘the metaphor of the conscience that re-ascends (transcends) itself to find itself’? A fish that with difficulty re-ascends the water towards the Source (The Light of the inner God)?
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Question&Answer > Bad use of the Word
by (425 reads) | [..] Dear Athos, when you say you believe that evil is ‘only an invention of man', which ‘part' of man are you thinking of? You say: ‘evil as we know it'... what do you mean?
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Question&Answer > The power of silence
by (426 reads) | ...I don’t understand at all the concept of Masonic tolerance [...] where does Masonic tolerance start and where does it end, and what does it mean exactly? How to apply it materially? How to avoid looking like a ‘fool’, since nowadays in actual fact to be tolerant means to be a fool or a goody-goody and the only result is that the person on the receiving end thinks that he can easily abuse you?
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Question&Answer > Educate and not punish oneself
by (419 reads) | …how much does the nature of the material body limit the communion with the spirit…?
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Question&Answer > The initiatory path and the symbol of the ‘Salmon'
by (594 reads) | …why compare the Adept to a Salmon?
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Question&Answer > The ‘absolute truth' in man's dimension and the power of the word
by (457 reads) | «My attention and reflection is indeed captured by another statement of yours: the human ability to link the word ‘true' to something. Who can define the quality of a ‘true' thing in such absolute terms and in what measure?»
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Question&Answer > What is the purpose of the word?
by (504 reads) | …does the re-awakening to a new life occur only after having lived and overcome the nigredo, operation that ‘kills’ personality, ego and pride?
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