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 | A Synthesis of Alchemy |
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| 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... |
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 | The Metaphor of the Widow |
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| 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’. |
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 | The Do and the Way of the Warrior |
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| ...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’?... |
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| Freemasonry and the Theosophical Society |
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| …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. |
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 | Manifesto of the Theosophical Society |
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| 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. |
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| The lost Sacralization – Part 4 |
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| Big groups of profane culture unrelated to the technical and scientific field use an imprecise terminology that leads to confusion. Esotericism tries and respects the originality and the characteristics of each reality it gets in relation with, by taking care of the property of words and the exactness of meanings. Esotericism is a method of research used to distinguish the different aspects of abstract concepts such as appearance and essence, viz. interior or exterior, active or passive. |
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| Functions of a Master |
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| The teaching is necessary. It can be of different levels depending on the ability to interact of the apprentice and the master (empathy bridge called ‘mental synchrony’). The roles are indispensable. The ability of the apprentice is not to carry out orders (he is not a dog to be trained) but to ask the right questions; when the master answers them he can transmit his teaching and therefore himself. |
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| The Hermit – symbol of inner search |
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| The Hermit proceeds on his way with the help of his instruments. He goes along the inner path in the search for the light of the truth that he will receive from the soul. By looking for the soul, the Hermit will find Himself: he will then reach the resolution of the initiatory Teaching. |
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 | From knowledge to mental liberation, stage 8 |
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| To accelerate events is a sign of inexperience; the inexperienced man plans to build the roof of his philosophic home before providing for steady foundations and solid walls. To know means to understand; it is therefore silly to think that we can penetrate the subtle dimension only with the help of reason. Since the mind lies to itself first of all, the first thing to do is to understand the dangers of illusion. |
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| The Cross |
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| In my opinion the cross as a symbol explains the mystery of the divinity as diversity in the unity far better than any other. However, either for tradition or for mental laziness, it has always been indissolubly connected to Christianity. On the contrary, the cross is a very old symbol; it was discovered among archaeological finds of the Neolithic age. We can also mention the Egyptian ankh, the Tibetan swastika and the Aztec cross of Tlaloc, all prior to the Christian era. The same symbol, then, can be found in different times and socio-cultural contexts with analogous or sometimes identical meanings. This fact stirs up deep emotions and invites us not to identify the cross with Christianity; the limits of any particular religion, whatever its dignity, appear to be cramped before the Infinite. |
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| Spiritual Alchemy – Part 2 |
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| Spiritual Alchemy – Part 2 |
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| Distinguishing between virtual representation and reality |
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Dear Athos, I must confess that I have often wondered where the Initiates were and are inside Freemasonry. I won’t deny that I feel like having a long sleep, but my ‘thirst’ is just as big, therefore, armed with patience, I continue my journey waiting to find the fountain where I could quench my thirst...I often wondered what real initiation was, I thought that before being initiated you must ‘Die’ and that the aspirant doesn’t ‘die’ only once. Perhaps the first ‘Death’ can be as heavy as a burden and as dark as the deepest night, then a tiny light breaks the darkness; the burden becomes as light as a feather and ‘Death’ is sweet and bright... P.
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