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Freemasonry > : The Light of the Initiation
by (3427 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.’
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Freemasonry > : Ethics of Sacrifice. The degrees on the «Path of Service»
by (3652 reads) | «…what is the highest degree of service which an initiate can devote himself to? »
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Esotericism_Reading > : Considerations on the mysticism of essence and on the Carmelite mysticism
by (3720 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...
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Art&Esotericism > : The sense of vision in the hermetic poetry of William Blake
by (8754 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.
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Alchemy > : The Grail of the Alchemist and the speculative Worker
by (5522 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.
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Quattuor_Coronati > : Etymology of the titles in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite
by (5639 reads) |  A quick reference to check the origins of titles used by Freemasonry.
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MysteriesOfBuilders > : The Pillars of the Temple
by (6904 reads) |  The Mysteries of the Masons /8
“Walking between black and white” is an old precept. But what is its practical meaning?
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Freemasonry > : Three occult sides of the Temple
by (3498 reads) | If the adept is not looking for vain appearance but for initiatory coherence, he will have to learn to act unusually and the key word is transcending. In order to achieve a considerable initiatory ability, he must be able to transcend the symbolic shadow and go from the exterior Temple, which is the fulcrum of symbolic Freemasonry, to the inner Temple, which is the basis of White Freemasonry.
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Biblical Studies > : The Ten Commandments
by (4853 reads) |  Comparison between the original version of the Decalogue according the Old Testament and the Catholic Church’s version
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Esotericism_Reading > : Solomon’s scales of justice
by (5567 reads) | Before we study a symbol of ancient wisdom, we should consider that it is not easy to establish exactly who created it first. The study is even more difficult if we consider that every symbol of ancient wisdom is layered with exoteric implications given by the ‘formal meanings’ added during the time after their creation. These implications are characterized by the promiscuous uses of exoteric cultures that have hidden the original meaning of the symbol.
Therefore the Adept knows too well that the symbol is not an image of culture but the clue of an old idea.
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