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... what I think, but that is my opinion, is that a true initiatory organization should never refuse the initiation to those who prove to be spiritually suitable to receive it only because they cannot afford the enrolment and a monthly fee that is beyond their possibilities. Not all initiatory organizations are the same. Fortunately there are some, in my experience, which are within everyone’s reach, rich and poor.
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 | Imago Templi / 6.20 |
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The Number Ten, Harmony and the achievement of the complete state of ‘Being’.
With this paragraph we enter the 3rd Level of interpretation, that of Initiate Master Builder.
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| The Journey through the Great Work /3.2 |
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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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 | Fragments of an Initiatory Reality - Presentation |
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| What really is esotericism? Are there more than one model? Presentation of the work. |
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| The Way of the Fool – metaphor of the self-initiation |
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| For the esotericist the Fool is a Lama of the Tarots (Lamas of the God Toth, conceptually far away from the common game of tarots); the meanings belonging to this card are quite different from the literal ones.... |
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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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| Where did Masonic Solidarity get to? (part 2 - ESOTERICISM EPISTLES - IV) |
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| In the century of ‘open society’ where can esotericism be placed, intended as a secret teaching? It is our duty, I think, to wonder if it makes any sense to talk about esotericism ‘today’ or if, on the contrary, we need to focus on new syntheses. Neurosciences and physics of the infinitely small make past ‘secret’ doctrines obsolete; perhaps they still have their charm, also thanks to their intuitions, but they are indeed obsolete… no doubt. In other words, the background where ‘initiatory societies’ operate is very different from that of Pythagoras, of the builders of cathedrals, of Dee and Ashmole, Anderson and so on. We must leave the return to the past to Harry Potter. On the contrary, let’s ask ourselves what it means to be ‘initiates’ in the twenty-first century and what can the Mysteries be. |
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 | The invisible geometries of the cathedrals |
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The Mysteries of the Masons /2
The first "invisible message" from the Cathedrals is given by the invisible geometries of their pediment. |
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 | On Science, Tradition and Magic |
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| After a short digression on the achievements of science and maths in the last century and the perspectives open for our future, we face the problem of relationships between science, traditional teachings and ‘magic thought’. We will try to answer some questions: Must Tradition look for confirmation in scientific discoveries? How do we have to consider in the 21st century the vision of the world belonging to the ‘magic thought’? |
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 | Cleansing the chakras |
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| Devotional traditions believe that mortification, repentance and prayer ‘purify' the taint of sin. Initiatory traditions rely on special procedures to ‘cleanse' the chakras and relieve the karmic negativities. This essay shows two methods to obtain the ‘inner laver'. |
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