Esonet.com-Selected Esotericism Readings

A Synthesis of Alchemy

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...

The Metaphor of the Widow

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�.

The Do and the Way of the Warrior

...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�?...

Freemasonry and the Theosophical Society

�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.

Manifesto of the Theosophical Society

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.

Master Jesus, the initiatory morale and vegetarianism

�It is fair to think that Jesus and his Apostles were vegetarians?

The weight of actions

I believe that we must distinguish between easiness of abstraction and difficulty of action. Inertia never equals the effort of action; likewise, writing never equals the laboriousness of building. Finally, saying and doing almost never combine.

The Fourth Element of Initiation

Q: � Well, as the apprentice that I am, I keep quiet and listen�

�Disputationes�, logic and intuition

When, among initiates, there is an exchange of fixed, and therefore unchangeable, principles, there cannot be a dispute, but only edification of ideas, where each initiate brings his own stone, sensitive and perceptive, angled by his own intellectual abilities. This building is the Temple , symbol of the search for knowledge and truth, which is the philosophical Abode of every initiate.

The physical mind is like a guide dog

Many aspects and elements start coordinating with each other, but it is still difficult to synthesize them...