What if the ‘heart of the world’ was the heart of humankind? What
if the center of primordial culture was the plane of spiritual conscience?
Kant believed in an ‘inborn’ sense of justice higher than human codes;
the latter are too often built to a part’s advantage and another part’s
disadvantage.
The Sufi Masters (not the dancers, mind you) teach that Eden, the earthly paradise
surrounded by four rivers, is the initiatory metaphor of the human heart (of man
and woman); they say that the four streams surrounding it are the fluxes of vital
energy that flow in the four limbs of the human body, arms and legs.
Their initiatory school teaches how to ‘access’ this paradise of peace
and wisdom, joining the transcendent and becoming transcendent ourselves.
Initiatory schools believe that all that has been ‘lost or mislaid’
is not outside the human being but inside him. The search for ‘what is lost’
is an – inner Journey- as Dante teaches us (and not only him). See the article
on the Website about the 4 journeys of the Masonic initiation.
This was Parsifal’s mistake; he went looking for the Holy Grail (the ignition
of the cardiac center, namely the christic center) on earth and sea, but not in
the place where it ‘lay motionless’, inside himself.
The loss of conscience of self as an Ego (archetype of the Idea) or soul, or spirit
(Plato’s monad) is the ‘lost Word’.
The ‘lost Word’ is the true name of the (true) Initiate and it represents
the ‘revelation’ of his ‘occult’ identity. (Occult) identity
and primordial tradition have something in common; it is the recognition of Self
and our function in the universal (divine) Work.
This ‘revelation’ is kept in a case (conscious sphere); the key
to this case ‘is broken’ and must be fixed.
This has only been a brief sketch and I know it’s not sufficient.
On the ‘legend’ of Hiram and the four secret Masters as well there’s
a lot to say; but as you say, it could only be a personal truth. Why insist,
then, if we haven’t heard the opinion of other people yet?
Fraternally
Esonet’s Editorial Staff
