All good points. I think those of us who are interested in the esoteriscm, needing a community, sometimes are overly zealous in epressing our ideas. The joureny through our symbols and deep arcanum is an iterative process, and what we believe one day we may not the next. Unfortunately i feel many authors write wiith zeal the realizations that they experience, as if they are historical fact. These conclusions are often adopted as fact and that essentially becomes dogma. i think that having outlets for brothers oriented toward the esoteric would help a lot, a place of peers who share and debate would normalize the experience and the body of knowledge. Pike spoke of the 'Adepts of the order' , and i feel these men are the conduit of the Light that seperates Freemasonry from other fraternities, and as such we should make a space for these men to evolve in a healthy and productive way. Right now its the Wild West of esoteric thought. I also think there is an emerging new esoteric community inside Freemasonry that may in time restore our connection to the mystical. I saw that at the esoteric conference last month, and in other nacient programs getting started. time will tell.
I always like to stop by and read what you have to say and thinking all the time what I will do when I become the WM of one of my Lodges in 2024 and just how and what I will be doing.
And I hope to do more than just run a Stated Meeting open to close.
One of these days I will try to stop by for the Zoom meetings when I can and you know how once I get started I will most likely be there for all of them.
The last few days were not easy since I missed going to the one Lodge on saturday for Installations because of the wind storm and no power for over 40 hours and at my place that means no heat or water and all the rest........it took over 12 hours to heat the house back up again today.
But now I have the meeting at the other Lodge on wednesday where I become the SW for next year and I plan ahead when I do anything like this.
Masons who get into esotericism are often electrified in the early days because they're finally seeing something with real meaning & spiritual content. It's like giving a thirsty man a quart of water, really.
I don't know if they need humility so much as experience. So Alchemy is cool, and you see it everywhere. As the study deepens, you find there are "many ways up the mountain" and there are 10 other paths that have just as deep and useful of a tradition and set of correspondences. When you're at the beginning of the path, you're entirely enthusiastic about how great this path is. After you've walked a while you see there are dozens and you're maybe just on one you chose.
I think that's where the humility comes from, is experience.
It's been discussed on this blog before how starved young men are engagement, meaning, something spiritual - just really "something". This overzealous "everybody has to be interested in the same esoteric stuff I'm interested in" is a byproduct of that yearning. They start to find a path and then they have zeal -- really almost too much.
This too shall pass, and in one's learnings of the craft is part and parcel of the "EA stage" (chalk, charcoal, & coal). Pair them if possible with someone who can broaden their knowledge from another tradition, let them cross-pollinate ideas, and in general it seems to me the right things start to happen.
All good points. I think those of us who are interested in the esoteriscm, needing a community, sometimes are overly zealous in epressing our ideas. The joureny through our symbols and deep arcanum is an iterative process, and what we believe one day we may not the next. Unfortunately i feel many authors write wiith zeal the realizations that they experience, as if they are historical fact. These conclusions are often adopted as fact and that essentially becomes dogma. i think that having outlets for brothers oriented toward the esoteric would help a lot, a place of peers who share and debate would normalize the experience and the body of knowledge. Pike spoke of the 'Adepts of the order' , and i feel these men are the conduit of the Light that seperates Freemasonry from other fraternities, and as such we should make a space for these men to evolve in a healthy and productive way. Right now its the Wild West of esoteric thought. I also think there is an emerging new esoteric community inside Freemasonry that may in time restore our connection to the mystical. I saw that at the esoteric conference last month, and in other nacient programs getting started. time will tell.
I always like to stop by and read what you have to say and thinking all the time what I will do when I become the WM of one of my Lodges in 2024 and just how and what I will be doing.
And I hope to do more than just run a Stated Meeting open to close.
One of these days I will try to stop by for the Zoom meetings when I can and you know how once I get started I will most likely be there for all of them.
The last few days were not easy since I missed going to the one Lodge on saturday for Installations because of the wind storm and no power for over 40 hours and at my place that means no heat or water and all the rest........it took over 12 hours to heat the house back up again today.
But now I have the meeting at the other Lodge on wednesday where I become the SW for next year and I plan ahead when I do anything like this.
Thanks as always MW Brother
Masons who get into esotericism are often electrified in the early days because they're finally seeing something with real meaning & spiritual content. It's like giving a thirsty man a quart of water, really.
I don't know if they need humility so much as experience. So Alchemy is cool, and you see it everywhere. As the study deepens, you find there are "many ways up the mountain" and there are 10 other paths that have just as deep and useful of a tradition and set of correspondences. When you're at the beginning of the path, you're entirely enthusiastic about how great this path is. After you've walked a while you see there are dozens and you're maybe just on one you chose.
I think that's where the humility comes from, is experience.
It's been discussed on this blog before how starved young men are engagement, meaning, something spiritual - just really "something". This overzealous "everybody has to be interested in the same esoteric stuff I'm interested in" is a byproduct of that yearning. They start to find a path and then they have zeal -- really almost too much.
This too shall pass, and in one's learnings of the craft is part and parcel of the "EA stage" (chalk, charcoal, & coal). Pair them if possible with someone who can broaden their knowledge from another tradition, let them cross-pollinate ideas, and in general it seems to me the right things start to happen.