 |
| :: Search :: |
 | |
| :: Contacts :: |
If you have questions about anything on this site, please feel free to ask!
|
 |
| |
|
|
|
Freemasonry > From the Flaming Pentalpha to the Sign of the Goat
by (6799 reads) |  Freemasonry gathers symbols with a great ethical, esoteric and philosophical value; among them there is the five-pointed Star. The result of the elaboration of the pentalpha is the Flaming Pentalpha, which is a splendid representation of the initiatory condition. Female Freemasonry uses it as well, but upside down, giving itself a sinister feature.
| | (Read More... | ) |
|
Freemasonry > The Light of the Initiation
by (3431 reads) | ‘Death is next to us since birth. Death is the Expert Brother who knocks at the Door of the eternal East, accompanying us to the last earthly trial, which for the ‘reawakened’ means to be initiated to eternity.’
| | (Read More... | ) |
|
Freemasonry > Ethics of Sacrifice. The degrees on the «Path of Service»
by (3657 reads) | «…what is the highest degree of service which an initiate can devote himself to? »
| | (Read More... | ) |
|
Esotericism_Reading > Considerations on the mysticism of essence and on the Carmelite mysticism
by (3727 reads) |  When we talk about Christian mysticism we must first of all draw a distinction. There are two different issues: one is the ‘mysticism of essence’, the Rhine-Flemish mysticism founded on the deep integration of the divine inside the soul. Another issue is the so-called ‘mysticism of feeling’, where the divine You is considered in a nuptial relation with the soul...
| | (Read More... | ) |
|
Art&Esotericism > The sense of vision in the hermetic poetry of William Blake
by (8776 reads) |  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.
| | (Read More... | ) |
|
Alchemy > The Grail of the Alchemist and the speculative Worker
by (5534 reads) |  The spiritual Alchemist and the speculative Worker have a postulate in common. The former calls it: ‘the transmutation of metals’ (to purify one’s character); the latter calls it: ‘the smoothing of the stone’ (to sublimate one’s character). This means to use different ‘instruments’ in order to reach the same goal.
| | (Read More... | ) |
|
Freemasonry > ThreeMagisterialArts Ars Muratoria, Ars Regia and Ars pontificia
by (6464 reads) | Since ancient times, building ‘immaterial bridges’ has been the fundament of mysteric science, which finds its highest expression in hiero-inspiration. The term Hierophant comes from this; it indicates the initiator that became ‘bridge’ and transmitted to the postulant the ‘knowledge’ of which he was the ‘Chalice’.
Holy inspiration was a prerogative of Hierophants; it consists of receiving ideas from the ‘divine’ plane. Plato called this dimension ‘hyperuranium’ (plane of archetypical ideas).
| | (Read More... | ThreeMagisterialArts) |
|
Quattuor_Coronati > Etymology of the titles in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
by (5659 reads) |  A quick reference to check the origins of titles used by Freemasonry.
| | (Read More... | ) |
|
Freemasonry > Lost_Sacralization The lost Sacralization – Part 5
by (3576 reads) | The Chain of U.nion is the physical realization of the will for cohesion, produced by the attracting energy of a Group of men and women that exists and lives independently from its qualities. If the Group lacks the attracting force of the central nucleus, the will for cohesion ends; the composts crumble and separate. If the phenomenon refers to the human body, it corresponds to death. Therefore the attracting force of a Group must be continuously strengthened with ability, method and care.
| | (Read More... | Lost_Sacralization) |
|
Freemasonry > Lost_Sacralization The Lost Sacralization – Part 3
by (3415 reads) | The dry Path and the humid Path, symbols of hermeticism - The system where supremacy of power and physical strength were paramount set a strange scale of values. Putting the hidden extraordinariness of the inner virtues of man below the formidable ordinariness of the domineering classes’ culture has materialistically and exoterically affected the lesser interpretation of many allegories and symbols.
The esoteric allegory on the Dry and Humid Path as well has been interpreted in a minor key. It has been reduced to a literal and physiologic key, where the most appreciated value was the physical attribute of the interpreter of the psycho-drama.
| | (Read More... | Lost_Sacralization) |
|
| |
