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Freemasonry > Lost_Sacralization The lost Sacralization – Part 1
by (3155 reads) |  The separation of initiatory Systems
The initiatory System, whose roots are to be found in the East, has always been part of the social fabric of the humankind. It used different expressions and forms to be understood when customs, languages and habits of the profane world changed; it has always affected men’s education from the inside. They were different, ‘uncommon’ men who aspired, sometimes confusedly, to ethical and moral conditions often antithetical to those proposed and imposed by profane powers
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Esotericism_Reading > Illnesses of the soul and ‘illnesses’ of the Gods: the marks of time
by (2824 reads) |  ‘I had a dream: I imagined I was a soul that has come back from the ancient Greek world, the soul of an initiate to the mysteries of Dionysus who has been given the chance to cast a glance at the modern world. What would strike me most? Which transformations of our way of living and feeling would attract my attention?
Some ‘diseases’ are described; in the popular imagery they were suffered by three gods of the Greek pantheon, Dionysus, Mercury and Apollo. The modern world has ‘forgotten’ the intelligence of the heart; it has been replaced by empty sentimentality. The ability to interiorize experiences has been sacrificed to the myth of speed. The riddance of death and of the relationship with the matter condemns western civilization to lose any contact with the Beauty and the mystery of the world, replaced by false rationality.’
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Freemasonry > Masonic_religiosity Masonic religiosity - Part Two
by (3759 reads) | It is common opinion that the devotion of Freemasonry produced an initiatory anomaly that still exists in it. Indeed, it is not clear how an Institution considered ‘generated’ by the old mysterial System (see Mediterranean Mysteries) could mix abstract spirituality with an obvious religious romanticism; or how it could confuse the representations of an exterior cult with the inner principles of spiritual illumination
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Freemasonry > Masonic_religiosity Masonic religiosity - Part One
by (3491 reads) | It is common opinion that the devotion of Freemasonry produced an initiatory anomaly that still exists in it. Indeed, it is not clear how an Institution considered ‘generated’ by the old mysterial System (see Mediterranean Mysteries) could mix abstract spirituality with an obvious religious romanticism; or how it could confuse the representations of an exterior cult with the inner principles of spiritual illumination
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Freemasonry > Ancient mysteries and the New Era – part 2
by (6406 reads) | 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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Freemasonry > Ancient Mysteries and the New Era - part 1
by (2816 reads) | As a result of astronomic calculations (cosmic cycles and precession of equinoxes), many researchers and scholars of esotericism are positive that the humankind is on the threshold of a new age. What is this New Era for the Mason? Br Francesco Brunelli authoritatively wrote about it in 1981:
«[…] it is approaching (or we are entering) a new era, bearer of transformations inside the psyche and consequently external transformations, too. A change is going to happen, similarly to what happened when Christianity was born two thousand years ago, when an old world collapsed and was replaced by a different civilization. This New Era we are entering is the Era of Aquarius. It is replacing the Age of Pisces.»
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Alchemy_of_Fire > Men who want ‘Wings’
by (4406 reads) |  In the humankind we find three classes with different characteristics: a ‘grey majority’ prisoner of the impulses of the lower nature; a ‘variously colored minority’ that fights to free itself from them using the instruments of knowledge and historic memory; a ‘dark minority’ that uses superstition and ignorance to subject the masses. The various initiatory Schools apply this subdivision to represent the methods used by the ‘colored minorities’ to elaborate the strategies for their ‘liberation’. This is why different methods share the same goal: to transform oneself in order to be free from the bonds of materiality.
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Alchemy_of_Fire > Dangers of devotion
by (3138 reads) | 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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Freemasonry > Church and Freemasonry. The secret thread
by (3407 reads) | The Holy Roman Church bases its principles on roots shared by two other monotheistic religions deriving from Abraham’s Tribe: Hebraism, the oldest, and Islam. The ritual and symbolic origins of ancient pagan catechisms contribute to make its primacy even less absolute. Articles of faith, though, belong to the religious field and not to laic research. The only exception is the secret thread that connects Church and Freemasonry. The meanings of symbols and allegories are secret, too.
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Freemasonry > Towards inner transmutation
by (2866 reads) | A fundamental principle of secret Doctrines is that part of the conscience remains in the material impermanence because it is reflected in the divine image. The will to be aware again of this spiritual reflection is the premise to the operation of inner mutation called ‘Initiation’.
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