Table of contents hide 1 PROLOGUE: The books. 2 THE FRAME: The myths. 2.1 1. Paradise Lost 2.2 2. The Divine Comedy. 3 THE KNOT: The symbols. 3.1 4.The Rusty Armor Knight. 3.2 5.The Foucault Pendulum. 3.3 6. The Mystery of the Solitaire 3.4 7. The paradise recovered. 4 THE RELEASE: Dreams. 5 EPILOGUE The initiations
An initiate is an individual whose sense of perception deals with contacts and subjective impacts. That interest, cultivated in the inner world of meanings, leads him to understand the broad sense of truth and to the revelation of the meaning and purpose of God in all that He has accomplished time after time.
Modern man has advanced markedly in the knowledge of himself. Modern literature, particularly the novel, is an exercise in self-awareness. The human sciences, on the other hand, sociology, psychology, anthropology, linguistics and psychoanalysis among other disciplines, have set out to clarify the ultimate reasons for human behavior.
PROLOGUE: The books.
The literary or aesthetic work involves characters, events, situations, elements that can be reduced to typical categories.
Every novelist expects his reader to understand it, participating in his own experience, or to pick up a certain message and embody it. The romantic novelist wants to be understood by himself or through his heroes, the classic novelist wants to teach, leave a mark on the path of history.
Seven works have been chosen in which the author tries to make the reader complicit, by murmuring to him, below conventional development, other more esoteric directions. The two books on Paradise (the lost and the recovered) act as a backdrop for the initiations.
THE FRAME: The myths.
The great biblical myths are often made up of several symbols, which together form a message. This message, without a doubt, is very rich in teachings since it has reached us through men and women who have lived such essential experiences for them that they have had the need to transmit it. If taken at face value, many of the biblical accounts seem meaningless and plagued by implausibility, however, if they are read from a poetic, mythical or religious angle, according to convictions and beliefs, they take on a very important meaning.
1. Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost ( Paradise Lost in English) is a narrative poem by John Milton (1608-1674), published in 1667. It is considered a classic of English literature and has given rise to a literary topic widely used in universal literature .
Exceeds 10, 000 verses written without rhyme. The poem is an epic about the biblical theme of the fall of Adam and Eve. It deals, fundamentally, with the problem of evil and suffering in the sense of answering the question of why a good and almighty God decides to allow them when it would be easy to avoid them.
Milton responds through a psychological description of the main protagonists of the poem: the devil, God, Adam and Eve, whose attitudes end up revealing the hopeful message that is hidden behind the loss of the original paradise. In the poem, heaven and hell represent moods rather than physical spaces.
Book I: Returning to the a poetry of the ancient Greeks, the poet invokes the Muse Celestial and declares his theme: the fall of man, and his goal: justify God's ways to men . Satan, Belceb, and the other rebel angels are described as the lie in a lake of fire, from which Satan rises to claim hell as his own domain and offers a moving speech to His followers: Better to reign in hell than to serve in heaven.
Book II: Satan and the rebel angels debate the possibility of another war in heaven, and Belceb tells them of a new world under construction that goes to the house of man. Satan decides to visit this new world, passes through the gates of hell, beyond sin and death. Here, Satan is described as having given birth to sin with a blast of fire from the forehead, before beginning an open war with God as Athena was born from the head of Zeus.
Book III: God observes the journey of Satan and predicts how Satan will bring with him the fall of man. God emphasizes that the fall will occur as a result of the free will of man himself, and excuses himself from responsibility. The Son of God is offered as a ransom for the disobedience of man, an offer that God accepts, to order the future of the incarnation of the Son and punishment. Satan comes to the edge of the universe, disguises himself as an angel, and heads to Earth for Uriel, Guardian of the sun.
Book VI : Rafael goes on to describe in more detail the war in heaven and explains how the Son of God expelled Satan and his henchmen to hell.
Book VII : Rafael explains to Adam that God decided to create another world (the Earth), which warns again Adam not to eat the fruit of the tree of knowledge.
Book VIII: Adén tells the story of his creation from his own perspective, offering a counterpoint to Rafael's instruction in Book VI. Adam asks Rafael for knowledge about the stars and the angelic nature; Rafael advises modesty and patience.
Book IX: Satan returns to Eden and enters the body of a sleeping snake. The snake tempts Eve to eat the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. She eats and drinks some fruit for Adam. Adam, realizing that he has been deceived, decides that he prefers to die with Eva than to live without her, so he eats the fruit. At first, the two are in a state of drunkenness for fruit, get carried away by lust, have sex, then, in their loss of innocence, cover their nakedness and fall into despair n:
Book X: God sends his Son to Eden to pass sentence on Adam and Eve. The two are doomed to suffer in a life that ends with death, the snake is cursed to crawl on its belly and eat dust forever. Satan triumphantly returns to hell.
Book XI: The Son of God, pray to his Father in the name of Adam and Eve. God decrees that the couple must be expelled from the Garden, and the angel Michael descends to deliver God's judgment. Michael begins to tell the future story of the world to Adam, including Noah's Ark.
Book XII: Michael tells Adam of the eventual arrival of the Messiah, before removing Adam and Eve from the Garden. They have lost the physical domain of Paradise, but now they have the opportunity to enjoy a "Paradise in the form of intimate happiness." The poem ends with: Providence guided them.
2.The Divine Comedy.
The Divine Comedy (in Italian: Divine Commedia ) is an epic poem written by Dante Alighieri, between 1304 and 1321, date of the poet's death. It is therefore considered that the wording of the first part would have been alternated with the wording of the Convivium and De Vulgari Eloquentia, while De Monarchia would belong to the time of the second or third stage, to the last of which must be attributed without doubt that of two works of lesser commitment: the question of water and earth and the two eclogues written in response to two poems by Giovanni del Virgilio.
Hell
The first part tells the author's descent into Hell, accompanied by the Latin poet Virgil, author of the Aeneid, whom Dante admired. Accompanied by his teacher and guide, he describes the hell that had a cone-shaped shape with the tip down and the nine circles he possessed in which the damned are subjected to punishment, according to the severity of the sins committed in life, in the Last "judesque" circle, Dante describes that there was a kind of palace in which were those who betrayed their benefactors and there Lucifer was, he describes it as a three-headed demon and inside the mouth of the main one was Judas, which he bit with his sharp fangs like a plastic toy, and screams of pain were heard from Judas.
In the lobby are the undecided and the morons.
First circle: Those who did not receive baptism are in limbo, their pain is to live with a desire without the hope of achieving it.
Second circle: the lustful ones are there, their pain is to be eternally exposed to horrible hurricanes in the middle of the stormy and gloomy space.
Third circle: they are in the gluttons, their pain is to be exposed to a harsh rain mixed with hail and stunned by the horrible howls of Can Cerbero.
Fourth circle: the misers are there, their sorrow is to carry a heavy load by throwing it furiously at each other.
Fifth circle: there are the wrathful and the dysliscent. They live sad with a melancholic spirit.
Sixth circle: heretics are found there. Pride, envy and greed are the three embers that burn hearts.
Seventh circle: the violent are in it. All evil has at last the insult. Towards others it is homicide, towards itself it is sucidio, towards God it is blasphemy.
Eighth circle: There are those who make fraud, among them, the disloyal, the hypocrites, the flattering, the ruffians, the bartenders.
Ninth circle: there are the treacherous.
Purgatory
In the second part, Dante and Virgil cross Purgatory, a mountain of flat summit and staggered and round slopes, symmetrically to Hell. In each step a sin is redeemed, but those who redeem it are happy because they have hope. Dante is purifying himself of his sins in each level because an angel in each one erases a letter from a writing that has been put on him. There he finds famous poets, among them Publio Papino Estacio, author of the Thebaid.
Free from all sin, Dante can ascend to Paradise, which he does with Beatrice in conditions that defy physical laws, chaining miracles, which is rather natural given the place in which the poem is developed. Within the tour it will be of great importance that Beatriz's name means “giver of happiness” and “beatifier”, because in this section of the Comedy she relieves Virgil in the role of guide. Indeed, through this character, the author expresses in the thirty-three songs of the section several theological and philosophical reasonings of great subtlety.
The Paradise.
Paradise is composed of nine concentric circles, in whose center is the earth. In each of these skies, where each of the planets is located, are the blessed, closest to God according to their degree of bliss. But the souls of Paradise are no better than others, and none wishes to find themselves in better conditions than those that correspond to them, because charity does not allow us to desire more than what we have (II, 70-87). In fact, each soul at birth God gave a certain amount of grace according to unfathomable criteria, depending on which enjoy the different degrees of bliss. Before reaching the first heaven the poet and Beatriz cross the sphere of fire .
First heaven: the weak spirits of those who breached the vows are found because they were forced. It is the field of angels.
Second heaven: there are active spirits in him, who did good to achieve fame. It is the place of the archangels.
Third heaven: there are loving spirits there. It is the place of principalities.
Fourth heaven: there are wise spirits there. It is the place of powers.
Fifth heaven: there are the militant spirits. It is the place of virtues.
Sixth heaven: the righteous spirits are there. It is the place of dominance.
Seventh heaven: the contemplative spirits are in it. It is the place of thrones.
Eighth heaven: there are the triumphant spirits. It is the place of the cherubs.
Ninth heaven: it is the place of the angelic choirs. The seraphim.
The empyrean
3. The Endless Story.
The never-ending story, also known as The Endless Story, is a fantastic novel by German writer Michael Ende first published in German in 1979 with the title Die unendliche Geschichte . He is considered "a new classic of youth literature." It has been translated into more than 36 languages and suffered various film adaptations.
Most of the action takes place in the kingdom of Fantasy, a world that is under threat of being destroyed by Nothingness (which represents the lack of imagination of real-world people). In the fantastic world, the protagonist is a young warrior who the Empress, who is mortally ill, asks him to start a great search for a cure. The other protagonist is a real-world boy, who reads a novel of the same title, for whom the story becomes increasingly real.
Foreword
A. Fantasy in Danger. The inhabitants of fantasy find out that the Empress is sick.
B. The Atreyu Call. A centaur reports that the search for the cure for the Empress will be done by a hero boy named Atreyu, who will wear the Auryn medallion.
C. Vetusta Morla.Atreyu finds the Morla Turtle who reveals that the Empress needs a new name.
D. Ygrámul the Multiple. Atreyu sees a Lucky Dragon and is bitten by Ygrámul.
E. The two settlers. Atreyu and Fújur, the lucky dragon, are cured and advised by two gnomes.
F. The three Magic Doors.
The door of the great enigma. When passing through a door formed by two sphinxes
The magic mirror door. When Atreyu looks in the mirror he sees Bastian reading the book.
The keyless door.
G. The Voice of Silence. Atreyu begins a dialogue with Uyulala, the voice of the Palace of the Deep Mystery.
H. In The Country of La Gentuza. Fújur explains to Atreyu the names of the four giants of the winds and the function of fear.
I. The City of the Wraiths. Atruyu meets Gmork, the werewolf, who tells him that he was bound by Gaya, the dark princess.
J. The Flight to the Ivory Tower. Fújur tells Atreyu the true title of the Empress: Lady of Desires.
K. The Child Empress. The Empress begins the dialogue with Atreyu about her savior and Bastián intuits that it is about him.
L. The Old Wandering Mountain. The empress is transported in her bunk to an egg-shaped place where the Ancient of Days lives.
M. Perelín, The Night Forest. From this chapter and at twelve hours the real world and the fantasy world merge. Bastián begins his dialogue with the Empress whom he named Daughter of the Moon.
N. Goab, The Desert Of Colors. Bastián begins his dialogue with a Lion.
O. Gragragraman, The Multicolor Death. Bastian receives a sword from the Lion, which he named Sikanda. Learn that the phrase "Do what you want" means acting according to True Will.
P. Amarganz, The City Of Silver. Basti n passed through the Temple of a thousand doors. Meet Hynreck, the hero and Princess Oglamar.
Q. A Dragon For Hynreck The Hero. Basti n meets the Elder of Silver, who takes him to the Library. There is the following inscription Started at the horn of the unicorn, I have turned off. I keep the door closed until my light awakens who by my name calls me. One hundred years I will enlighten it, guiding it in the deep darkness of the Yor Minroud. But if I said my name again from the end to the beginning, I would dismiss in a single instant the light of a hundred years . Basti names the stone Al-Tsahir.
R. The Ayayai. Basti n knows the Ayayai and frees them from the guilt of existence.
S. Travel Companions. The three knights continued to accompany the trip to Basti n, as did the Yicha mule.
T. The Seer Hand. They arrive at the Horok castle and meet the magician Xayide.
U. The Monastery Of The Stars. Basti n receives a belt from Xayide which he names Gu mmal. Basti n learns of the existence of the three deep thinkers who live in a monastery and teach knowledge, they are The Father of the Vision, the Son of Sagacity and the Mother of Intuition n, who consider Basti n a Great Sage.
V. The Battle Of The Ivory Tower. Xayide wants Basti n to become emperor.
W. The city of the ancient emperors. Basti n dialogues with a monkey named Argax who explains that all humans who have craved power end up crazy.
X Doiu Aiuola. Basti n dialogues with Doña Aiuola, who represents the plant kingdom and urges Basti na to become a child.
Y. The Mine Of Images. Basti n dialogues with Yor, the miner, who tells him that Fantasy is set on a foundation of forgotten dreams. Basti n had to find one of the images of his dreams to reach the Source.
Z. The Waters Of Life. Bast an, Atreyu and F jur are in the Waters of Life, which are guarded by two snakes similar to those of the Auryn. Basti passes through them to return to the real world.
THE KNOT: The symbols.
The reactions of the enlightened initiate are within the reach of his intelligence in the form of symbols, which if described, would be completely misunderstood. When the third initiation takes place and the initiate finds himself before the wide open portal, then he will discover the meaning of that kind of understanding called significance.
The symbols constitute the external and visible form of the internal spiritual realities, it is necessary to ask what the symbol produces in the being, what feelings it evokes, what aspirations it gives off. and what dreams, illusions and reactions recorded consciously. This is the intermediate stage between the exotic reading of the symbol and the conceptual understanding.
4.The knight of the rusty armor.
4.The knight of the rusty armor. The knight in rusty armor (in English, The Knight in Rusty Armor ) is a novel by the American writer Robert Fisher, in the genre of self-help with fictional elements. It is a best seller of which more than one million copies of this text have been sold, and has had a great impact on both children and adults.
This book reflects the process of a human being who does not express his feelings, the changes and feelings that a man with a heart should have are reflected in the castles he has to go through and the confidence he must have.
- The gentleman's dilemma.
- In the forests of Merlin.
- The path of Truth.
- The castle of silence.
- The castle of knowledge.
- The castle of will and daring.
- The top of the truth.
5.The Foucault Pendulum.
Foucault's pendulum ( Il pendolo di Foucault, 1988) is a novel written by the Italian semiologist Umberto Eco. It is considered an initiatory or perhaps anti-initiatory and anti esoteric book, due to the satirical nuances of the plot. It is organized in 120 chapters distributed in the 10 parts.
The book admits at least three readings:
- The story of the three friends in the Publishing Industry.
- The history of secret societies and the concepts of occultism and esotericism.
- The construction of mental forms through creativity and planning and their relationship with language and semiotics.
On the spiritual level, nine filing cabinets control the periodic manifestation and act through what the cabal calls the nine sephirot. The work of the first three is related to the inspiration of the idea, the next three sefiras are responsible for converting the idea into an image in the brain of man, finally the other three sefiras specify the mental form.
1.KETER
Only for you, children of doctrine and wisdom, have we written this work. Scrutinize the book, concentrate on the intention that we have disseminated and placed in different places; what we have hidden in one place, we have manifested in another, so that your wisdom can understand it.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
The experience of the Numinous cannot last long without upsetting the mind.
The story begins at the place where the Foucault Pendulum is located, comments on Belbo's obsession with the pendulum and establishing the analogy between movement in the universe and the plan. Keter is in relation to the seraphim, the essence.
2. HOKMAH
Only for you, children of doctrine and wisdom, have we written this work. Scrutinize the book, concentrate on the intention that we have disseminated and placed in different places; what we have hidden in one place, we have manifested in another, so that your wisdom can understand it.
Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa
Belbo is captured, tells the story of Abulafia, and the ways of writing in code. Hokmah is in correspondence with the cherubs, wisdom.
3. BINAH
Don't expect too much from the end of the world.
He tells how Casaubón met Belbo, and what motivated him to do the thesis on the Templars. Binah is in relation to the thrones, intelligence.
4.HESED
“The analogy of opposites is the relationship between light and shadow, the top and the abyss, the fullness and the emptiness. The allegory, mother of all dogmas, is the substitution of the seal for the imprint, of reality for the shadows, is the lie of truth and the truth of lies. Eliphas Levi
Casaubón arrives in Brazil in search of Amparo. Hesed is in correspondence with dominations, mercy or clemency.
5. GEBURAH
Alchemy is therefore a deserving caste, which has many lovers, but that disappoints everyone and is not delivered. Transforms fools into fools, the rich in miserable, the philosophers in fools, and the mocked in eloquent mockers ... Tritemio
Diotallevi would often speak of the late cabalism of Isaac Luria, in which the orderly articulation of the sefirot was lost. Creation, he said, is a process of divine inspiration and expiration, like an anxious breath or the action of bellows. Geburah is in correspondence with the powers and justice.
6. TIFERET
Dreaming that we reside in a new and unknown city means near death. Indeed, the dead reside elsewhere, and it is not known where. Gerolamo Cardano.
Mr. Garamond had his great idea: to publish an illustrated history of the magical and hermetic sciences. Tiferet is in correspondence with the virtues and beauty.
7. NESAH
"Can't you see that black dog that roams the fields and stubble? ... It is as if it had subtle magic ties around our feet ... The circle is closing, we already have it on top." Faust
Belbo tells Aglie the whole Plan, as they had conceived it, presenting it as the revelation of that remote manuscript. He even told him, adopting an even more circumspect and confidential tone, that also a policeman, a certain De Angelis, had been about to discover the truth, but he, Belbo had protected with an airtight, was the case of saying it, barrier of silence that supreme secret of humanity. A secret that ultimately was reduced to the secret of the map. Nesah is in relation to principalities, victory or triumph.
8. HOD
“ For our Ceremonies and Rites we have two long and beautiful galleries, in the Temple of the Rosa-Cruces. In one of them we place models and samples of all kinds of extraordinary and great inventions, in the other we place the Effigies of the main Inventors. ”John Heydon,
The meeting is held and Aglie introduces Ardenti. Hod is in correspondence with the archangels and the glory.
9.YESOD
The social theory of the conspiracy ... is a consequence of the disappearance of God as a point of reference, and the following question: "Who has replaced it?" Karl Popper.
Here we comment on how a Plan is created: we invented a non-existent Plan and They, not only took it seriously, but also convinced themselves that they had long been part of it, that is, they took fragments of their projects, disorderly and confusing, as moments of our Plan, structured according to an irrefutable logic of analogy, of appearance, of suspicion.
But if a plan is invented and the others realize it, it is as if the Plan existed, even more, it already exists. Yesod is in correspondence with the angels, the foundation.
10. MALKUT
But what seems to me deplorable is that I see some idolaters as foolish as fools who… imitate the excellence of the cult of Egypt; and they seek divinity, of which they have no knowledge, in the droppings of dead and inanimate things; and with all that, they not only mock those divine and sensible cultivators, but also us ... and, worse still, they exult, seeing that their absurd rites enjoy such a high reputation ... - Do not worry about it, Oh Momo! - Isis said - because the fate has established that darkness and light alternate. - But the bad thing - Momo answered - is that they have been convinced that they are in the light. Giordano Bruno
Now I know what is the Law of the Kingdom, of the poor, desperate, helpless Malkut in which Wisdom has gone into exile, groping for her lost lucidity. The truth of Malkut, the only truth that shines on the night of the sefirot, is that Wisdom discovers its nakedness in Malkut, and discovers that its mystery consists in not being, if only for a moment, that it is the last. Then the Others begin again.
6.The Mystery of the Solitaire
The mystery of the loner is a novel written by Norwegian author Jostein Gaarder and published in 1990, which achieved sales success both in Scandinavia and in other countries of the world.
Hans Thomas, a twelve-year-old Norwegian boy, and his father, a sailor passionate about philosophy, embark on a road trip to Athens in search of his mother, who had left them eight years before to find herself. Chance causes them to stop in Dorf, a small Swiss town, where an old baker gives him a muffin inside which a tiny book that Hans Thomas will begin to read is hidden with the help of a magnifying glass that a mysterious dwarf gives him.
Frode, an old man who was on an island, played solitaire daily with 52 cards, to which he assigned a week of the year, thus forming 52 weeks, he also assigned them trades.
NAIPES | FUNCTION-PROCESS | SYMBOL |
| Clovers | They collect the juice. | The Intendance |
| Hearts | They make the drink. | The chivalry. |
| Spades | They ferment it. | The Infantry |
| Diamonds | They bottle it. | The Artillery. |
One day the images of the cards came to life and began to wander around the island.
There is a letter that is not limited to living among others, but wonders why they are there, who put them on that island. That card is the wild card, or if you prefer, the philosopher. He is the only one on earth who may wonder about his existence, but at the same time he is marginalized by society because he is different.
Gaarder addresses in this book the importance of imagination for thought (the army in the blood is leukocytes) and raises the deepest questions about human existence: who are we? ? What is the true meaning of our life? Can we determine our destiny?
Through the character of Frode, Jostein to present an idea of a God who lives among his creation without her knowing it because he is not smart enough to understand something like that. This character tries to convey to us the possible sensations that God would have if he really existed, as can the fear that they discover him and they cannot assume him, or that the philosopher discovers him and, as the wild man said, killed him to regain his dignity.
7. The paradise recovered.
The recovered paradise is an epic poem by Jhon Milton, published together with Samson Agonist, in 1671. It is related to the previous and most famous poem by the same author, El para so lost, with which he shares similar theological themes. In this poem, Milton concentrates on the episode of Jesus' temptations in the desert.
First. If you are a child of God say that these stones are made bread.
Second: I will give you all the power and glory of these kingdoms. If you want, then worshiping me will be all yours.
Third: If you are the Son of God take advantage of fatherhood and get rid
Fourth: Jesus confronts with his physical being.
Oriental wisdom refers to these four problems that all the disciples and aspirants have to face and which constitute in their entirety the world in which we live.
Maya refers to the world of physical forces in which we live and the first temptation concerns this area. Mirage refers to the field of emotional being and desire where all forms dwell. The illusion is more mental in its impacts, it concerns the ideas by which we live, and the mental life that more or less governs our daily tasks. The sin of the mind, pride was put into action by the devil in the third temptation. Finally, Christ faced the inhabitant on the threshold, synonymous with the lower personal self, considered as a unified whole only in the case of an initiate.
THE RELEASE: Dreams.
In the course of time, the dreams of the most intelligent minds were increasingly futuristic and idealistic in nature, and as they surfaced, they were remembered and recorded, y comenzaron a controlar en tal forma el cerebro del hombre que el nfasis puesto por el anglosaj n en la alegr ay el goce, oportunamente lleg a convertirse en la descripci n de la generalidad de los sue os. Aqu tenemos el origen de las utop as, las fantas as y las presentaciones idealistas de la belleza y la alegr a futuras que caracterizan la vida mental del ser humano evolucionado, las cuales han sido expresi n de las esperanzas (a n no cumplidas) expuestas en La Rep blica de Plat n, en El Pa ra so Recuperado de Milton y en las mejores producciones ut picas, idealistas y creadoras, de nuestros poetas y escritores occi dentales.
EPILOGO. Las iniciaciones .
Las iniciaciones tienen su origen en los cultos de misterio. Los tres cultos de misterio más populares fueron el frigio (Cibeles-Atis), el egipcio (Osiris-Isis) y el iranio (Mitras). Mitras fue concebido como el campeón sobreviviente del dios solar en su lucha contra el dios de la oscuridad.
La fe cristiana dominó posteriormente en el occidente. La filosofía griega proveyó los conceptos de valor ético, el mitraismo el rito de la observancia del culto, y el cristianismo como tal, la técnica para la preservación de los valores morales y sociales.
INICIACION | RELEASE |
| 1.Nacimiento | Del control del cuerpo físico y los apetitos. |
| 2.Bautismo | Del control de las emociones y el egoísmo |
| 3.Transfiguración | Del autoritarismo de la personalidad |
| 4.Crucifixión | Del propio interés para procurar el bien mayor |
| 5.Revelación | De la ceguera para alcanzar la Visión. |
| 6.Decisión | From heteronomy to choose. |
| 7.Resurrección | Del aferramiento el mundo de los fenómenos |
