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	The esotericism of certain Masonic jewels and paraments
	The Secretary – The Master of Ceremonies – Gloves and Apron (the importance of colors) – The Seven Liberal Arts It will be useful to make some considerations on the tasks that the Secretary (Secr.) carries out in his Lodge Activity, which are known to every Br. The first divine scribe of the Temple, which is not known to our western culture (from Persians up till now), is the God Thoth, the divine Scribe of the Gods. On an operative level the Secr. is receptive inside the Temple, whilst outside he is its messenger; Thoth was the messenger of Gods, the Secr. is the messenger of the will of the Lodge, which is synthesized in the figure of the W.M. or the Three Lights.
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	Transmutation of the sexual energy
	Q: In carrying out the Great Work, if an individual, during various cycles of manifestations, is able to accomplish the first and most difficult part, and by following the ‘humid path' he gets in contact ‘by attraction' with a soul that has achieved the second part of the work by following the ‘dry path', can they re-join the two flames of the Athanor by meeting sexually? And ‘fix' everything? This is a question that I was asked and that I could only answer through intuition, since I don't have any experience on the subject. What do you think? Can a ‘Sacred' sexual act between two Divine sparks actually re-join the Great Flame?
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	Religious Dogma, the prison of the soul
	‘Jesus Christ tells his disciples, that is yesterday’s Church as well as today’s: ‘Who listens to you listens to me, who despises you despises me as well. And who despises me despises he who sent me’. Esq. Mr. Altomonte, by despising the Church, you despise God. Why do you do it? …the Catholic Church is…at the same time a divine and a human society…’
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	On metallic transmutation / 3
	The Middle Chamber – [Osiris and Isis] – [Symbology of the number Seven] – From speculation to fulfillment – [Layman, Mason, Initiate] – The symbol-words AUM and OM – ‘He of whom nothing can be said’ – [Coincidence of opposites] The Middle Chamber, like the half-Light, shows a precise level of Human Initiation, viz. the level of Reason and Logics, which in the allegory is situated between the Forces of Darkness (ignorance and profane error) and the Power of Light (initiatory Wisdom); the latter is represented by the figure of the Master of all Masters, Hiram. He is the living symbol of the initiatory spirituality addressed to the Humankind, in order to stimulate and accelerate its progress in the evolutionary line.
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	How to find the world of spiritual thought
	Enthusiasm is an appreciable virtue, especially when it is accompanied by sincerity in the intentions. Sincerity is what matters. With sincerity we can do almost anything. Any mistake is acceptable if it is made with sincerity. What is not acceptable is the arrogance of false scholars. It is essential not to stop asking questions. By joining enthusiasm with patience we can get anywhere we wish.
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	The Beauty in the eyes
	An objective truth or reality (Kant’s ding an sich) is based on three requirements: Fairness, Beauty and Harmony. The architectonics of the Idea originates from this One but Trine order. And only the Idea expresses the rest.
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	Vertical telepathy
	The term horizontal telepathy describes the mental contact between two individual psychic elements, viz. two different people; by vertical telepathy we mean the phenomenon of integration (inner communication) between the psychic element immersed in the physiology of the brain (the conscience of the personal self, also called lower ego) and its metaphysical counterpart, viz. the part of the same conscience free from the limits of corporal senses, viz. the super-conscience of the soul that expresses itself in the densest planes below through the Ego.
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	The dimensions of appearance
	Q : ...Orientals talk about several bodies, such as physical, double ethereal, astral, mental and spiritual. The soul is not considered; is it perhaps identified with the astral body?
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	Law of Economy
	The third cosmic law is the Law of Economy, the law that adapts in the most advantageous way and with minimal waste of force all that concerns the material and spiritual evolution of the cosmos. It makes every atom of time and eternal period perfect; it brings everything forward, upward and through with minimal effort, with the right adaptation of balance and the right frequency of rhythm.
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	Esotericism of the Masonic Apron
	The most impressive detail for the imagination of the brothers Masons is the apron they wear as a distinctive sign and an initiatory symbol of Freemasonry in its three degrees of abilities, qualities and virtues. The Apron of Art, therefore, is a historical element of the ‘operative’ tradition which, with the advent of speculative Freemasonry, took the value of initiatory symbol.
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	Imago Templi / Book 2
	The Labyrinth in the esoteric tradition – The squaring of the Temple On the horizontal plane of ‘Chaos’ the Reason, deceived by its own senses, has to cross a Mental Plane that appears to it Real and Infinite, but that is in actual fact the result of its own deceit and delusion. This moment is known by Tradition as the Labyrinth; in the inner life of the Apprentice it marks the passage from his own Floor, of personal and separating understanding, to the Floor of the Temple, where, thanks to Systems and Guides, the paths become regular and understandable, true Paths of Initiatory Science.
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	On metallic transmutation / 2
	The symbol of the sword – From the reality of Principles to the mirage of opinions – Transformation and Transmutation – Initiatory modesty – Intellectual speculation – Flaming pentalpha The initiatory principles of Freemasonry are universal, timeless, unchangeable and in their synthesis they lead to the sensitive contact with the Great Architect. But if those Principles are not known or applied, the adept will reflect only his own personal qualities or characteristics of Freemasonry. It happens, then, that one believes that there are several types of Freemasonry, such as symbolic, speculative, ritual, initiatory, esoteric and exoteric, manifested and occult; in actual fact this is the result of a mirage.
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	On Thought-Forms
	In this article we will talk about the elusive and paradoxical entities known as ‘Thought-forms’. Science can’t deal with them because they can’t be the object of experimental verification and it is not possible to deal with this topic from a purely intellectual point of view. Only the people who carry out a radical work on themselves can ask themselves if thought-forms really exist. We will analyze the relation between thought-forms, ‘subtle’ bodies of man and prime Matter of the Alchemists; we will talk about the nature of maggots, shells and other invisible entities that man can feed or even equip with their own life through his psychic energies and finally, we will deal with the thought-forms created by a community of men, which are called Eggregore.
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	Groundlessness of the assumption of punishment and sanction
	‘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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	Reversal of roles in modern Freemasonry
	"In all honesty I haven’t found satisfactory answers, if the goal is real initiation, which for me means ‘rebirth’, new man, loss of metals, at least partially. On the other hand, if the aim is more culture, the Masonic journey is fine, but it is not my main goal. Now I see in the various Masonic associations an almost generalized tendency to pure speculation and I wonder: will Freemasonry be able to give the necessary instruments to build the new man?"
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