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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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 | The Heroic Path |
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...for some time I have been following your exchange of messages and I appreciate your position in standing up to emotional and often messy criticisms... I find that your sword is of good workmanship although your fencing lacks strength.
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| The inner disciple |
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... What I would really like is to find a master.
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| Imago Templi / 6.17 |
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Seven, the Number of the Hierarchy in the Human Kingdom
Whilst the Cloth of the Initiate is represented by the number 6, as we have seen in the previous chapter, when we include the presence of the Point of Light where everything originates from, the One, the Number 7 appears. |
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| The Sensitive Sphere |
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The sensitivity of the Ego and that of Personality - The natural and initiatory Paths - The descent in the lower worlds - By-passing the mind - In order to get out we need to get in - The recognition of the models
Let's start outlining this argument with the awareness that it is not so much about knowing, feeling, listening to certain notions, but rather about employing them on ourselves shortly. Therefore we will carry out this recognition in general terms. In an abstract being, in a certain region of space that we cannot and do not want to quantify, an organ of sensation appears. It would be easier for us to call it perception but in actual fact it is not perception yet. A sensitive being that appears like a dot. |
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 | On the symbolic meaning of some tarot cards |
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| After a short introduction to the history and mythological origins of the Tarot, we will briefly discuss the alchemic meaning of some cards of the Major arcana: the Magician, the Fool, the Lovers and Death. |
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| Biblical origins of the term Landmarks |
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| We have already discussed at length about the link that joins religion and Freemasonry with catechisms, numbers and symbols.
The concept itself of ‘Landmarks', an apparently ‘true British' expression, has biblical origins, therefore Hebrew, like most of the main Masonic and religious symbols in the West. |
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| Communication is the art of building |
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Communication is the art of building images that reflect ideas. We must not make the mistake of trying to ‘bring the sky on earth’, rather than us going up towards it, otherwise we risk the ‘old evil’ of making ideas profane.
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| Transference of the Symbol |
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I would like to ask a question on the ‘symbol’, on the hermetic force that derives from it...the observer that faces a symbol must be able at least to be in tune with it; this is the only way to perceive its force and be positively influenced by it.
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| Decline of Masonic colonialism |
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| A “political split” between U.S. rites and the Grand Lodge of England has begun since a long time. More and more American brothers don’t accept to be considered as “second” by a “higher” English Obedience. This one claims to own a sort of historical Masonic copyright, so it’s firmly convinced to give out priorities, pre-emptions and regularity licences. |
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 | Groundlessness of the assumption of punishment and sanction |
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| ‘Evil’ is the reversal of truth, beauty and fairness. But, although reversed, evil has a trace of truth, fairness and beauty that it has distorted. They can be restored if the spark of truth, beauty and fairness is vivified so that, in the fragment of evil, it could prevail again.
The vivification of the spark held in every form of life is the sense of the consecration of elements.
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 | From knowledge to mental liberation, stage 1 |
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| The most insidious obstacles to inner development are those considered common and unavoidable. Getting used to live with our psychological deficiencies, such as fears or lack of confidence, causes us to underestimate these obstacles and therefore not to solve them.
Whilst we are busy looking for important doctrines, teachings and paradigms, small hurdles often stop our evolutionary process.
They shouldn’t be removed, viz. forgotten, but rather transformed through an alchemic process that uses will and intelligence. Through 15 stages we will try and understand the nature of some pebbles that stop the wheel of our progress.
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