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Alchemy_of_Fire > : Introduction to esoteric Psychology
by (5273 reads) |  We are going to introduce this topic by dividing it into three parts. The first part deals with Elements of esoteric Psychology, followed by a short dissertation on the Science of Rays; finally the enunciation of the main universal Laws.
It would be impossible to develop any further study without this introduction to the terms of the subject.
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Question&Answer > : Esoteric culture, initiatory culture
by (3357 reads) |  …I would like to understand what esoteric culture means…
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Question&Answer > : Men and Women in Freemasonry
by (3101 reads) | … I think that Freemasonry as we know it and practice it today, organized in lodges and communions, it’s a product of the English eighteenth century, valid for the time and social classes that practiced it. Is the same structure valid for the twenty-first century man? ...I don’t consider a female Freemasonry impossible, although I don’t think that our rituals are suitable for a female group and should probably be ‘revisited’,…I think that certain symbols and instruments are more appropriate for men than women, but perhaps this opinion can be a prejudice resulting from thirty years of activity in a male Freemasonry. Nevertheless I am quite perplexed about a mixed Freemasonry....
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Question&Answer > : The myth of ‘Absolute truths' (ESOTERICISM EPISTLES - II)
by (3624 reads) | ...What is the truth and most of all, where is it? I think that each of us is a fragment of absolute truth in relativity. It is true what I see. It is true what I hear. It is true what I feel. The image I see it's absolute. The sound I hear is absolute. The feeling I feel it's absolute… for me.
Moving on another conscience, though, I would find other totalizing truths, relative to dimensions, abilities, clearness and depth of that mind-conscience.
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Question&Answer > : Homo Religiosus (ESOTERICISM EPISTLES - I)
by (3403 reads) | ...I don't have any more illusions about the relation between Freemasonry and initiation. I am absolutely positive that for contemporary man it is rather impossible to transcend anything (the oriental man as well as the occidental man). Furthermore the possibility of an ‘esotericism' or an ‘initiation', at least in Freemasonry, concerns a trite dualistic ontology of a Platonic kind, viz. the ‘essences' up there and the ‘imperfect copies' down here, which contemporary thought has overcome a long time ago....
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Esotericism_Reading > : Metaphysics and Cybernetics (part 1)
by (6626 reads) |  In the post-modern era – or rather ‘super-modern', according to the neologism coined by Marc Augè – we feed on radical feelings and ideological preconception towards technology. The followers of Habermas and English analytical philosophy claim to be the epigone of the Light and they generally show great trust in scientific rationality. On the contrary, the heirs of ‘active nihilism' show great scepticism about the ability of technology to escape the net of power and cultural industry. The author – making explicit some implicit premises in Heidegger's thought – postulates the possibility of a ‘third' way that doesn't indulge in easy demonizations or optimistic compliances, but proposes to grasp the relations between the virtual world of cybernetics and the creating imagination of mysticism.
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Hidden_History > : Freemasonry and Nazism
by (5533 reads) |  The difference between initiatory and Nazi-Fascist thought is unmistakable. The former aims at perfecting man, the latter exalts itself and its followers. Freemasonry has always claimed to be the ‘Field of Freedom’ of laic, democratic, tolerant and liberal thought. But its true richness is in the ancient symbols it involves. Biblical mysticism, hermeticism, esotericism and spiritual alchemy are all part of its lexicon. These are the elements that have been manipulated by the promoters of the super-race, as Pierluigi Tombetti’s work explains; we present his preface.
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Esotericism_Reading > : Second Life: utopia of the second millennium or new globalized shopping center?
by (4690 reads) | There is a lot of talk about Second Life and the freedom of expression that it guarantees to its users. But is this ‘freedom’ such or, on the contrary, it undergoes the social-economical bonds that rule the conscience of contemporary man? Is Second Life a virtual multiverse of free subjectivity or is it the nth simulacrum of the will to standardize that belongs to the globalized society? The author tries to give an answer, showing the path to a truly ‘free’ cyberspace not ruled by marketing strategies of multinationals.
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Freemasonry > : Modernism, paradox of ancient mysteries
by (3486 reads) |  I think that there can be several convergences between the crudeness of realism and the polemic verve of perennialism. Especially if they are expressed with a rigor similar to science rather than close to the passional and compromising criterion of ignorant cicisbei wearing loud scarves.
To ‘call a spade a spade’ is an attitude unwelcome in the ‘upper-class salons’ of certain Masonic groups.
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Question&Answer > : Salmon and Water – an initiatory trial
by (3320 reads) | The Salmon must ‘return’, viz. ‘go back’, which means to go ‘inside’ and if it ‘returns’ it is only to ‘generate’ … What else but the New Man?
Why do you use a fish to represent ‘the metaphor of the conscience that re-ascends (transcends) itself to find itself’? A fish that with difficulty re-ascends the water towards the Source (The Light of the inner God)?
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