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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.
On the contrary of what we think, it is necessary to refuse and disown the exoteric isolation of the High ritual Chambers and to understand the invisible connections of the initiatory activities through which Esoteric Philosophy joins in the Scottish Pyramid the commitment of initiates of different levels and abilities.
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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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 | Talking about the Soul /1 |
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The Constitution of Man - The fact of the Soul - Some synonyms for the “Soul” - Recognition of the Soul
We shall, from the outset, accept the fact of the soul. We shall not consider the arguments for or against the hypothesis of there being a soul - universal, cosmic, and divine, or individual and human. For our purposes of discussion, the soul exists, and its intrinsic reality is assumed, as a basic and proven principle. Those who do not admit this assumption can, however, study the book from the angle of a temporarily accepted hypothesis, and thus seek to gather those analogies and indications which may substantiate the point of view. |
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| Suicide and ritual suicide |
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| Freemasonry’s occult anatomy |
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| Many people discuss about separations and initiatory diversity. They forget that when these events occur in supposedly brotherly environment, it means that something is wrong. The initiatory principles that enlighten the spirit of Freemasonry can’t be responsible for the separation of some masons; therefore we must look for the reasons elsewhere. It could be due to human error or to exoterical conditions and rules. This problem doesn’t concern only Freemasonry, though.
If we follow the principles of an occult but likely ‘anatomy’ we will find the head as the center of command, which judges, decides, acts, communicates but most of all produces thoughts.
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 | “Mouth-Ear”, metaphor of how to teach by asking questions |
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| The method of asking questions in order to induce answers offer extraordinary occasions to discover the relations between man (ourselves) and the universal Man (Adam Kadmon). |
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 | The sense of vision in the hermetic poetry of William Blake |
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| Until not long ago, William Blake was considered a great visionary poet as well as an eccentric rebel. Literary critics agreed in finding in his poetry the thread that joined him to the great English romantic poets such as Byron, Shelley and Keats; this made Blake a pre-romantic forerunner or even one of the first exponents of this current. After all, it was a time when poets started a journey that would lead to the enclosure of the Ego in one’s own inner lyricism. A nonconformist lifestyle and the paroxysm of certain visions didn’t stir any sensation; emphasis was normality and the reflection of the spirit of the time, surely not an exception. Nevertheless, in the twentieth century a parallel – rather than alternative - interpretation started developing; it saw in the Blakean poetry not only the germs of the ‘poetizing self’ that would flourish in the nineteenth century, but also a reference to suggestions belonging to the world of arcane. |
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| The Adept and the Salmon: analogy with a living symbol |
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| Thirteen Answers on Magic, Church, Freemasonry and esotericism |
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| 1. Q: Is a syncretism between two opposite realities such as Catholicism and magic possible…?
2. Q: We talk about Regular and Accepted Lodges…?
3. Q: There is a problem of costs; a few years ago for joining a Lodge I was asked…?
4. Q: Many people nowadays consider Freemasonry a corrupted Institution…?
5. Q: I am very keen on Initiatory sciences and nowadays what troubles me is the excommunication by the Catholic Church…?
6. Q: I think that only God can say who really owns the Truth…?
7. Q: In these days I am interested in Kremmerzian Hermeticism…?
8. Q: I am against any form of discrimination towards women and vice versa...?
9. Q: I wish for the restart … of the Inter-religious Dialogue between the (Worldwide) Masonic Institution and the Catholic Church …?
10. Q: The Latin Catholic Church claims to have the primacy on the interpretation of the great figure of Christ…?
11. Q: I studied Religious Sciences in a Catholic Institute, I would like to study Initiatory Sciences as well….?
12. Q: I have a great Longing for Knowledge. I am not happy with the usual truths…?
13. Q: I consider you a good Master and I speak to you with pleasure…?
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