Esotericism

Freemasonry and Initiation

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The concept of what constitutes a man is time honored and tested. The traditional role of men has been essential to the development and maintenance of society. Learning to think for ourselves, to form our own judgments, to trust our decisions, to comprehend, to expand our knowledge, to choose this course of action over that, to decide between good and bad, have through the millennia been recognized as the attributes that define a man.

Dan Brown Donates to Digitize Esoteric Library

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The Ritman Library, more properly known as the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, in Amsterdam is regarded as one of the finest private collections of rare books in the world in the field of Hermetic traditions. Currently, the collection comprises over 25,000 works, including some 4,600 manuscripts and printed books dating before 1900

Origins of Masonic Ritual

Tradition

The origins of masonic ceremonies are fully discussed by Knoop and Jones in Chapter X of The Genesis of Freemasonry. The authors deduce the origins of eighteenth-century Masonic ceremonies from two main sources. Firstly, the Invocation; the legend or “history” of the Craft; and the Masons’ regulations, as commonly contained in the Ms. Constitutions of Masonry, these being the respective prototypes of the Opening Prayer, the Traditional History, and the Charges of later Masonic ritual


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