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 | The Journey through the Great Work /3.1 |
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Ars Muratoria describes in detail the ‘geometry’ of a method and its instruments. These instruments hide the virtues of the Initiate’s Psyche in the allegory.
When in the evolution of the Human Kingdom the air element of the thought got in contact with the fire element of the spirit, an aqueous and voluble element appeared in the lower levels of the mind; it still accompanies Personality up to its complete individualization. |
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 | Anamnesis of the inner reawakening |
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... I wonder if being an initiate represents the "sine qua non" condition... or isn't it enough to have a pure and simple love for knowledge, beyond any material interest.
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| Imago Templi / 6.19 |
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The Number Nine, perfection
The primitive Yod is supported by nine pillars. These nine pillars are placed in the nine directions of the world. They are placed in right lines, Three in each direction and one in the center. These three points placed as a square make nine, which are in actual fact eight. They are the thrones of the sacred Yod.
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| Imago Templi / 6.18 |
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Number Eight, from the Sign of Chaos.
We have seen the eight-pointed Star as the Sign of Chaos. But to simply stop at that first and far too synthetic statement would not allow the researcher to completely and exhaustively own the meaning hidden in that shape.
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 | Carry the Teaching to the crossroad! |
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“How, then, O Lord, to spread Thy Teaching? How, then, O Lord, to find those for whom it is predestined to apply Thy Word for fulfillment?”
And the Lord said in reminder, “A hermit searched for one to whom to entrust the Revelation. And he took the scroll and placed it at the crossroad ....
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| A sighting point |
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...often the experiences had during the initiatory journey are very different, when not disappointing, from what we expect.
This is a bitter consideration that I am sure many brothers will share. |
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 | Esotericism of the languages of Art, harmony and beauty |
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| Everybody has experienced a flash of intuitiveness in his life, even if at a low level. It is what we call to understand without knowing why. Thinkers, artists, scientists and observers have had the flash of intuitiveness that enlightened them with a sense of beauty and harmony. |
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| Education and growth |
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| I think…that the true esotericist searches by himself and for himself. The true initiate knows well that no ‘earthly’ answers can be ‘conclusive’. …I am my only master and I don’t acknowledge any others. Freemasonry is a solitary, egoistic and personal path, free from dogmas; therefore nobody has anything to teach to anybody. Is it possible that the Master must be killed to let the value of his teaching live? |
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 | Between East and West. Pain and inner growth |
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| Painful experiences can help revise our behaviors. If everything that hurts, grieves and scares us, therefore it repels us, than the escape from mistakes is a source of education.
In order to correct and educate ourselves we must develop intelligence and critical sense. |
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| Esoterical meaning of Dante’s Mountain |
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| In the Convivio, Tome II, Dante Alighieri wrote: « ...in every Work of Art there are always four meanings, the literal, the allegorical, the moral and the anagogical one (Greek anŕ-ago: to bring up).…» This criterion that sums up four ways of understanding an idea, gives shape to an ideal mountain to be climbed in order to reach the top and find the immaterial purity of the primogenial idea. |
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| The Three Lights, the Four Castes and the Four Ages |
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The Three Lights, the Four Castes and the Four Ages - The Three Aspects - Cycles Cadences and Rhythms - The Three Pillars in the Temple
When an instruction presents the same topic in different languages, its occult effect is: 'to be able to disown the forms’ by recognizing the essence of every form'.
To deal with a concept on various levels and in different languages allows us to recognize the substance, which is similar in the various fields without being slave of the “form” used to dress the idea. It means to use the form without being its prisoner.
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| The Friars Major |
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| …in the indefiniteness between myth and history of an Order like the Rose & Cross, I don’t understand if the latter has influenced Freemasonry and what is the esoteric sense of this alleged link? |
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