Esotericism in its purest state is found in the hidden knowledge and ancestral rites that the master builders embodied in the silence of the stone throughout the course of the Middle Ages .
According to tradition, at the beginning of a construction a human sacrifice was made and a man was buried in the center of the work in question, at an equidistant point of the four corners.
There was a strong conviction that if it was not done that way, the temple would collapse inexorably .
With the passage of time that kind of cruelty disappeared and the construction masters were content to sacrifice a black rooster to those underground entities whose domains would be violated when the ground excavations began. That was the Middle Ages.
The occult in the Middle Ages
These types of occult rituals, considered as foundation sacrifices, were performed at night and in total secrecy as the forgiveness of Mother Earth was sought . A stone was consecrated and a stone was placed in a hole excavated especially for that purpose, in the very center of the work.
This stone was called angular stone or cimera stone and represented the highest elevation point of the temple. With the passing of the years, that ritual gradually became something merely symbolic.
A rectangular table was then placed that was clad in white to represent a white stone and a brother was chosen to play the role of the victim who was once sacrificed .
Six men raised an alleged block of stone on the head of the alleged victim and a thorough examination was carried out using the square, the compass and the plumb line, as was done in ancient times.
The "victim" listened carefully to the words of the ritual that especially highlighted the delivery he was making of his life, so that the building guaranteed that he would remain standing for all eternity.
The symbolism continues to use only the "foundation" cubic stone, as it is one of the four that were placed at the corners of the future building. That is why it is currently known as the "cornerstone . "
The whole ritual was performed around that stone since its magical purpose was to breathe life into it and get its soul to wake up.
The master builders carved the raw stone as it lost all impurities in a totally symbolic act . For the masters, the raw stone was nothing other than the basic "raw material" or the chaos, macro and microcosmic.
When the masters completed the stone carving, they called it "sillar" and it represented the perfection to which they wanted to take their work.
Alchemical symbology
The ritual symbolism of the occult is closely related to the alchemical symbolism, whose purpose is the elimination of all the impurities that the metal possesses to obtain the purest of all, gold.
A certain parallel can be established with the transmutation of imperfections or impurities that the human being possesses towards a transcended and full of light being whose transit to that new illuminated state is represented by the golden or even by the solar symbol.
Gold has always represented power and wealth and obviously represents the spiritual light and that is precisely why it became the center of worship of philosophies and religions called dualists .
The Church transformed these beliefs into the Sun Invictus of Christ, because it could not make an ancestral cult of those characteristics disappear from popular memory, since astrology and alchemy were deeply rooted in the minds of all people.
Seen in Year Zero Magazine, by Pedro, editor of the White Brotherhood
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