KABBALAHA AND FREEMASONRY
Adolfo William Weiss
Freemasonry embody a way of initiation through which it is still
possible, in a dark and sick West, linked effectively to the unanimous
tradition and Primordial. It is an art in their crucible symbols,
rituals and myths of cosmogonic order to kings, warriors and men of
profession have recognized since time immemorial, as carriers of
metaphysical realization.
The neophyte initiated into the mysteries of the Royal Art receives a
spiritual influence that operates mental regeneration, that is, its
rebirth or self-awareness as a true man. This awakening corresponds
symbolically with a route from a point on a circle to its center, and
also with a countdown of the denarius and ends at the Unit, the
multiplicity generating principle implicit in the decade. Finishing
the tour of the little mysteries start, seamless transit by the
Greater Mysteries, the rise of the stationary shaft around which
rotates the wheel of becoming, or lightning, crossing the sun, sets
out the path that returns the being within the Non-Being.
Geometry, number and cosmogony
The layman who asks to be admitted to Scottish Rite Freemasonry,
Ancient and Accepted drawn up a will in the House of philosophical
reflection to the three alchemical principles. Three areas of your
body are stripped before being taken, deprived of sight to the gate of
the Temple. Having been introduced to the Lodge, she plays in three
trips, and finally receives the Light the third stroke of the gavel of
the Worshipful Master. The ternary chairs the start of building the
temple inside the Freemason as well as the construction of the Cosmos,
which the Lodge is a perfect image.
The higher theogonies consider a ternary principial consisting of a
higher principle or pure Being (in the Hindu tradition, Ishwara or
Apara-Brahma, in the Far-Eastern tradition, the "Great Far" or Tai-ki)
and the first of the dualities arising from the polarization of Unity
(Purusha and Prakriti in the Hindu tradition, the sky, Tien, and
Earth, you, in the Far-Eastern tradition). Transcendent Being or unit,
within which are inextricably linked the two polarities of binary
differentiation principial above all presupposes another principle:
the neuter Brahma and supreme (para-brahma) in Hinduism, Taoism, Wu-
ki, the Non-Being or metaphysical Zero that nothing can be predicated
and which contains at its afirmación.1 Being that is According to
Kabbalah, the Absolute, to demonstrate, is concentrated at a point
infinitely light, letting the darkness around him. That bright spot is
the Self within the Non-Being, which affirms the Unity Zero and
indefinite expressions emanate from the Ser.2
As each symbol is the arithmetic of the Unit, the dimensionless point
is the geometrical image of Being Their determination within the Non-
Being is analogous to a point of a compass set to draw on a sheet of
paper . Polarization occurs one-point-Ser-Unity in the binary to
support the second point of the compass on the road. The two given
points on the paper are linked through the compass and the straight
segment joining the two points is a one-dimensional projection of such
a link on the geometric plane. Arithmetically, the polarization of the
unit can be represented as the inverse product of two numbers
together:
1 = n x 1 / n
where n is any integer. The product nx 1 / n is different from the
unit, the duality appears only to consider separately the two
complementary elements of that product, undivided inside the unit.
Another image is the numerical equivalent of two for obtaining the sum
of the unit with its reflection, which is itself:
1 + 1 = 2
This transaction represents a clear way the genesis of the binary for
Unity, and shows that there is nothing in the nature of it that is
different from the generating unit.
The consideration other than unity and duality produces ternary
2 + 1 = 3
Geometrically, the ternary arises when plotting circle arcs centered
on the poles of the binary and cut each other, defining a third point
or vertex. If the opening of the bar is equal to the distance between
the ends of the binary is obtained by joining vertices by two to two
straight segments, an equilateral triangle again evokes the no-
difference between the unit and its dual outputs.
The golden ratio is one of the most synthetic expression of inner
character of the unit formed by ternary and binary. This ratio, which
in ancient Greek was designated by the twenty-first letter of the
alphabet (21 = 2 + 1 = 3), is obtained by dividing a segment into two
parts so that the length of the lower part of more like that of the
total length of given segment. It is said that the lower segment of
the golden couple and it is the largest initial segment. The golden
ratio is the immeasurable amount resulting from the ratio of the
length of given segment and its segment aureus. The latter is
determined geometrically by drawing a right triangle which has the
legs of the given segment and its half, and subtracting the hypotenuse
of the lower leg.
The golden ratio is the only constant ratio three términos3 can be
built with just two different terms. The segment and its two sides are
"three that are two that are one," the symbol of a perceived
differentiation between the unit object and the perceiver of the
object contained both in the continuous recognition of a unit
inclusive. Moreover, such differentiation prefigure the first and
second dimensions of the event within the Unit, which is reflected by
the geometric property that if the length of the given segment is the
unit of measurement, measures of its parts golden ratio as a result
the square of the other (or conversely, that the root of that) .4
The Unit produces ternary added to the quaternary. The Tao Te Ching
says, "The Tao gave birth to the One, the One gave birth to Two, Two
gave birth to Three, Three gave birth to the myriad things" 5, so
that, in the words of René Guenon, "the four, produced immediately by
the three, somewhat equivalent to the entire set of numbers, and this
because, since it has the Quaternary, it has also, by the addition of
the first four numbers, denarius, which represents a complete cycle
number: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10, which is, as we have said on other
occasions, the numerical formula of the Pythagorean Tetraktys "6 The
four is the symbol of unity which manifests itself is the number which
falls at the event, which unfolds in a framework consisting of a
quaternary-dimensional space and time (3 + 1 = 4) in which all
elements are governed by the law of tetrad: four directions, four
seasons, four ages of man.
The geometric representation of the Quaternary in its static aspect is
the square, and its dynamic aspect, the cross. The complementarity of
the two symbols is illustrated by inscribing figures in a circle:
again and are to join vertices circumscribed by the four straight
sections of the two ways it can be done, each with his or adjoining
each with its opposite. The arms of the cross are like the spokes of a
wheel, giving rigidity, assert their rotation about its axis. In
contrast, the sides of the square are such filings or drawings of the
wheel and stop its rotation set. The layout of the square is made from
the cross linking adjacent ends thereof. The cross is built inside the
circumference, diameter and drawing a perpendicular. This returns us
to the consideration that all part of a single center, the quaternary
states.
The tetrahedron is a geometric figure that expresses the Quaternary in
the three-dimensionality. Its vertical projection on the plane to
which your base is an equilateral triangle whose three heights
converge at its center, reflecting the height of the polyhedron. The
stated point within the triangle and the top of the tetrahedron are
shown images of the Word, so it is said that four is the number of
Manifestation. In the Lodge, the highest point is the luminous eye of
the Delta, or the divine Tetragram iod, both symbols of the Great
Architect of the Universe in whose work the glory masones.7 The
quaternary is also revealed by the plant in a square over Masonic
Temple and the mosaic pavement, whose dimensions are equally
significant (double or triple over the wide, wide rectangle litigation
3 and length 4, length and width in golden ratio, etc.)..
The rotation of the cross around its circumference-breeding center, in
conjunction of its center, represents the dinar, is the geometrical
expression of the movement of the quadrant that symbolizes the
Pythagorean Tetraktys arithmetically (1 + 2 + 3 + 4 = 10 ). The cross
solves exactly the reverse problem of squaring the circle, dividing
the area into four equal parts, which can be expressed numerically by
permuting the terms of the previous equality (10 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4) .8
To square the circle with a square whose area is equal to the given
circle requires the intervention of quinary: You must register first,
a pentagon in the circle, then a second pentagon whose vertices are
the midpoints of the arcs of circumference limited by the pentagon
adjacent vertices first, and finally other two pentagons whose
vertices are found by the bisection of the arches respectively bounded
by a vertex of the first pentagon and the closest vertex of the
second. This gives four pentagons whose twenty vertices, which we
number consecutively, are evenly distributed along the circumference.
The lines through four pairs of vertices such as the second and the
fifth, seventh and tenth, twelfth and fifteenth, and seventeenth and
the twenty mark off a square whose area is about the circle dado.9
The sum of the unit and its expansion quaternary considered a
different reality to it produces the quinary (4 + 1 = 5). We can say
that five is the symbol of rediscovered in the production unit number,
such as the crossroads of the four cardinal directions reveals the
center of the cross and the square on which the arms of the former are
the diagonals. Five makes everything returns back to its origin, just
as after the four seasons of a cycle, the fifth is again the first. In
man, the fifth stage of their lives, following their four ages, is an
instant or point where they join to his death and birth, the "here and
now where time and space come together in perfect unity of eternal
present" 10 This point, which lies beyond the three-dimensionality and
temporality, corresponds symbolically with the location of the four
cardinal directions, ie with the center of the cross.
Five is the number of man, the microcosm and the Fellow, Masonic
initiation degree to which wakes contemplating Blazing Star of five
points after five learning holidays. In the Scottish Rite, Ancient and
Accepted central trip symbolizes the inner work supported by
meditating on the symbols of the seven Liberal Arts, among which are
the geometry and arithmetic. The pentagonal star shines in the center
of the letter G or the Hebrew Yod the Grand Architect of the Universe
and also the "perfect insider Mason strives to be."
The geometric design of the five-pointed star is made by dividing a
circle into five equal parts or divisions, and by joining alternate
corners (the first with the third, the third to the fifth, the fifth
in the second, etc..) By straight segments to close the polygonal line
that is outlined, which is achieved after two complete circles. To
determine the five vertices of the star must draw two perpendicular
diameters of the given circle, such as vertical and horizontal, and
draw two new circles touch each other inside and initial circumference
whose centers are the midpoints of the radii are one of the two
diameters paths. The radii of these circles have a length less than
half that of the initial radius of the circle. Suppose the lower
centers of the circles lie on the horizontal diameter of the largest
circumference, the line through the bottom of the vertical diameter
and the center of any of the smaller circles intersects it at two
points. Sketching, centering on the bottom of the vertical diameter of
the largest circumference, circular arcs with radii equal to the
distance between that point and either of the above specific cut
points on the smaller circumference, the four intersections of these
arcs with circumference greater turn out to be vertices of the
pentagonal star. The fifth vertex is the upper end of the vertical
diameter of the circle initially dada.11
This geometric construction, like all forms of Art, is a precious
support to reflect on the construction of the Cosmos from the Unit,
which is represented by intermediate stage five. The curvature of the
inner circles is similar to that of the sinuous line that divides the
light and dark halves of the yin-yang binary. Similarly, the sum of
the lengths of these two circles equals the circumference of the
first, which is another symbolic expression of the polarization of
unity in duality. Moreover, the golden ratio, related to the ternary
signs the geometry of the pentagram: golden ratio are the distances
between two alternate corners and two adjacent vertices, as are the
length of one arm of the star and one side of the polygon that
constitutes its invested cuerpo.12 The cross on the part geometric
construction that is described in the footprint of the quaternary
pentagonal star and if arcs are drawn tangent to the smaller circles
centered at each of both ends of the vertical diameter of the circle
first, so that small groups be listed in a mandorla, the distance
between the top of the mandorla happens to be the diameter of a circle
whose length is almost identical to the perimeter of a square
circumscribed initial circumference, thus producing Quaternary
movement.
The consideration of all individual beings, symbolized by the number
five, as something apparently different from the unit that is its
beginning and container produces senario (5 + 1 = 6), the arithmetic
symbol of creation and the macrocosm. The geometric expression senario
is implicit in the circle, which is divided into six equal parts for
his radio. The six-defined, then, the form on the wheel of becoming,
the significant way that recalls, in the realm of the contingent,
permanent union between the center and the many points on the circle,
and also the unit of measurement of time. 13.14
Joining together in different ways six points evenly distributed on
the circle are constructed of different geometric figures senario.
Drawing straight segments between adjacent pairs of points we get the
regular hexagon, whose sides are of equal length to the radius of the
circle that is inscribed. If you also join three vertices of a hexagon
with alternating its center, the resulting figure is the projection of
three-dimensional symbol senario, the cube in a plane perpendicular to
one of its diagonals. Moreover, if vertices distributed along the
circumference that are joined with straight pieces are not contiguous
but the alternative is obtained or six-pointed star of David or Seal
of Solomon, who reveals the senario as the union of ternary
unmanifested and its mirror image, illusory and changeable at the
creational (3 + 3 = 6), ie the product of the polarization of the main
triad (3 x 2 = 6).
The cube is the geometric representation of the Perfect City, the
heavenly Jerusalem, and also of the Lodge, which is said to have a
length from east to west, a width from north to south, a height to the
height and depth to nadir.15 cube also has chipped stone by the mason
with the proper tools of Royal Art, which, by the parallelism and
straightness of their faces, perpendicular to the six directions of
space, is useful for building the inner temple, "... without doubt,
always represents the ideal hub of human perfection, as they present
with absolute equality, righteousness and tetragonal parallel in all
three dimensions of material life, moral and spiritual, while in
general the first, which corresponds to the length, prevails in the
state and ordinary human activity ".16
Genesis says that God finished creation in six days, "and stopped in
the seventh day from all the work he did" 17 The seven symbolizes the
reunion, at the level of Creation Unit is unchanging origin and
synthesis of the former, which is expressed mathematically by the sum
of the first seven integers: 7 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 = 28 = 2 +
8 = 10 = 1 + 0 = 1. It is also said that seven is the number of
Formation, the immediate consequence of the distinctions that our mind
sets among created things, represented by the senario, which are
therefore coated forms.
The construction of the heptagon and the seven-pointed star, symbolic
images of the sevenfold, expressed geometrically external observation,
if you can call it that the mind makes the demonstration by projecting
on it the formas.18 To divide a circle into seven equal parts and
determine the vertices of an inscribed regular polygon of seven sides,
must be drawn in diameter and divided into seven segments of equal
length. Then, with radius equal to the diameter drawn and centers at
both ends of it, there are two circular arcs that intersect at two
points outside the circle. The line through one of these points and
the second of six divisions marked on the diameter in order to divide
it into seven equal parts cuts the circle at two points. Taking the
distance between the nearest point to the second division of the
diameter and the end of the diameter is closer to that point, and
bearing seven times as a chord of the circle, we find the seven
vertices of the polygon inscrito.19 The heptagon is constructed by
joining adjacent pairs of vertices, while the star of seven branches
are obtained by drawing a polygon passing through the first three
vertices (ie, connecting the first vertex to the fourth, the fourth to
the seventh, the seventh in the third, etc..), was closed after three
complete circles.
As the cube senario geometric expression, its center point which cut
off the arms of the cross formed by the three-dimensional polyhedron
Heights, represents the symbol sevenfold while the return to
principial Unit, which is also symbolized by the Jewish Sabbath and
Christian Sunday; are rest days a week during which the image of
creation, man's work passes.
Seven is also the sum of three and four (3 + 4 = 7). The septenary can
be seen, then, as the union of the triad principial chaired by the
Logos and the Quaternary that emanates from it, what the division does
not escape the ancient seven liberal arts in three arts of the word or
trivium ( Grammar, Logic and Rhetoric) and four or quadrivium
cosmological sciences (arithmetic, geometry, music and astronomy).
Geometrically, the sum of the ternary and quaternary is analogous to
the coronation of a square with a triangle, the resulting figure being
the sum of the cubic stone in a point, that as the number seven
symbolizes perfection of the Royal Art. Seven Lodge Masons make a
"just and perfect" as seven notes complement the musical scale "which
plays the sound of the seven planets in his rotation" 20
In the center of the seven planetary spheres Earth is a symbol of the
whole material world, as a product of the Unit and the world of forms,
is characterized by the number eight. Geometrically, eight can be
represented by two squares, one inscribed in the other and such that
the vertices of one are the midpoints of the sides of the other. It is
the image of the container which combines the four alchemical
principles of matter to produce the substance of the universe, or in
Athanor discharged the seven metals of the Great Work, this cauldron
that is none other than the soul of alchemist himself. The shape of
eight continuous discourse evokes the waters of the psyche that seeks
to allay the Adept.
The mercury, which relates the fluid movement of the psyche, is in
correspondence with the eighth Sephiroth of the Tree of Life
cabalístico.21 The octagon is the geometrical expression of
intermediate character who possesses all the psychic and mercurial.
This site, which is constructed by joining the ends of two cross
inscribed in a circle such that the arms of a are the bisectors of
angles formed by the arms of another, is a constructive way of
transition used in the temples of most traditions to support a dome or
hemispherical dome, referring to heaven on a square base symbolizes
the stability of the earth. The octagonal shape is also that of the
baptismal fonts and the former baptistry of Christian churches. These
are places of passage on the outside or the entry of the churches, in
an intermediate location between a secular and a sacred space in which
a sacrament which operates within the sphere of the individual,
relates to intermediary psychological domain between the spirit and
cuerpo.22, 23 The initiatory death is another transit in that eight
are linked, we might say, a fortiori, as Christian baptism, carries a
second birth, but of a different and superior as it produces, beyond
the psychological impact of an individual who is confined to inland
exoteric regeneration, transmutation leading to be the starting point
of an embodiment of order supraindividual.24
The establishment of an (apparent) difference between the physical
implementation and leads to the novena Unity (8 + 1 = 9). Nine is the
symbol of the indefinite multiplicity, represented by permanent points
on the circle corresponding to the formal manifestations Ser.25
indefinite Nine, as the circle, back on itself incessantly (9 = 9 + 8
+ 7 + 6 + 5 + 4 + 3 + 2 + 1 = 45 = 4 + 5 = 9), which evokes the look
imprisoned in the material forms of manifestation, and in particular
the skin that is lined the human condition No output of Being possible
by the tangent at the mercy of the power of becoming or trying to
outrun her, 26 in the same way no way out of the novena nine other
multiplying the whole number, since the result is always reducible to
nine. The only way out is inside the circle, toward the center or unit
in which said everything must be reabsorbed, completing the cycle: 9 +
1 = 10 = 1 + 0 = 1.
Epilogue
The Apprentice Freemason Lodge entering took a seat on the column
Septentrion. Said to be the least enlightened of the temple region,
suitable for those who just started its journey on the path of
knowledge and "still not able to withstand a great light." From the
total area of manifestation of the Self, symbolized by the denarius
and the wheel or circle, begins its way back to the Unit, that is, the
center itself illuminating suit with faint light still inside. Like
the character of the ninth arcana of the Tarot, lantern in hand,
moving slowly, with patience and solitude, returning nine through
eight, eight to seven ...
Tom
wrote:
> KABBALAHA AND FREEMASONRY
>
> Freemasonry embody a way of initiation through which it is still
> possible, in a dark and sick West, linked effectively to the unanimous
> tradition and Primordial.
<And so on>
You can tell it's Christmas time. The fruitcakes are everywhere.
Colonel Edmund J. Burke
Miguel Alberto
speaking countries, that knowledge of the human organism.
An organization can keep all kinds of specialized secrets, like signs
and interpretations, but when it comes to enforcing public ignorance of
ubiquitously natural phenomena, especially in the face of the American
Constitution, it is intolerable.
We live in an infinitely dimensioned universe, all available with 100%
of the brain awakened. That would be uncontrollable.
If more than 50% of your brain, conscious or subconscious, believes
something it will be your reality. Such belief simply teleports you in
the sixth dimensional direction to the timeline where your visualization
is reality.
The brain may be awakened by blocking seratonin, the neurotransmitter of
the inhibitory neurons, like with LSD or dimethyltryptamine, which is
highly illegal.
The brain may be awakened by overriding those inhibitory neurons with
muscarine, again a forbidden substance. But, substances are totally
unnecessary.
The parasympathetic nervous system, and significant neurons in the brain
are called muscarinic neurons. Just by mechanically massaging them the
brain may be awakened just as sure as LSD. Only, there seems to be
personal control that is lacking with a drug.
Those bodily locations known as "chakras" are actually plexuses of
muscarinic nerves. Physical stimulation anywhere in the muscarinic
system eventually spreads to the whole system and wakes up the brain,
conferring the magickal powers.
Due to the lowest chakras getting stimulated it was easy for "laws
respecting the establishment of religion" to suppress anything to do
with this phenomena. ONLY PRIVILEGED CHARACTERS WERE ALLOWED TO KNOW.
Of course it is easiest to awaken the brain by stimulating muscarinic
nerves that are nearest to the brain. The compass and the square have
been called "the quadrature of the circle". But, it simply represents
squeezing a circle into a line, and the G stands for the Hebrew word
Gorun.
A legally safer technique is holotropic breathing, see
http://www.holotropic.com also known as Grof Transpersonal. It is more
work than "Gomory", a less esoteric G, but it has been insuppressible.
Crucifixion forces holotropic breathing to such an extent that the
crucified soon have their brains awakened to an uncontrollable extent
called "perinatal matrix three", Hell itself.
Here one soon wished one were someone else and body switching takes
place, backward and forward in time. Christ did it to such an extent
than He is in you and I.
These things have been known by the privileged elite since time
immemorial and thus Christ said, "What you have whispered in the inner
chambers will be preached from the house tops."