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Hermes as ancient God, from the remote times achieves to represent
the Archetype of the deity in the intermediary level, and based on the
knowledge he establishes, through the teaching, the communication with
the highest levels of the cosmogony. Therefore his revelations form a complex
tradition that incites and takes the man to a wakeup to seek the own freedom
through the deep knowledge of oneself, reflection of the universe. And
it is this same knowledge what constantly obliges the apprentice to verify
what happens in the itinerary of his own path, in his internal being, meaning
in his Initiation. That is the case of the CORPUS HERMETICUM, set of sacred books emanated from the current of traditional thinking that locates itself under the entreaty of the God Hermes, or Hermes Trismegistus, greek-egyptian deity, considered as the god of the word (verb, logos), of the teaching, and great initiator in the mysteries of the Cosmogony, psychopomp, whose sponsorship extends since the first centuries of our era in the mediterranean world, having his nucleus of irradiation in Alexandria, until our days in all that can be considered occident or his area of cultural influence. This current of ancient lineage, for Hermes is the egyptian God Thoth and the Hermetica the sacred books of Thoth, includes important authors of the ancient Greece, Rome and Byzantium. “ This thought recognizes the man as mediator, not only in his central function but also as a little demiurge in a creation that has existed since ever and that is permanently unfinished, alive, in constant metamorphosis, and that he can transform for he appears as the point or unity where all creator energies converge, crowning and making sense to the divine plan by restoring the contacts that reveal the analogies, for the sensitive world is reflected in the intelligible world, as the intelligible in the sensitive. The Primordial Verb is manifested in the human allowing the arise of the pneumatic man, paradigm of the initiated, who can read the signs of the nature and the changing signs of his cosmic adventure, adapting himself to the circumstances of his trip, that assimilates to the Knowledge.” “ At the end of 17th century, a new point of view had blew down the hermetic theories that had been present during much time in the past, as well as all the magic-scientific apparatus that based on a solid structure grew significantly making flourish the most interesting and novel projects framed in the Tradition. The alchemy retained part of its attractiveness as a bridge between the scientific and the spiritual, but in general terms the Hermetism comes into a momentary break. Nothing seemed to be capable to make the great characters of the renaissance appear again. But in the next century began an important proliferation of secret and clandestine societies that would make sound the trumpets of the reaction that would occur against the governing rationalism and materialism.” Through the history, the Hermetism has taken diverse forms, as it is the case of many schools and groups in the past and in the middle age with the Masonry, which Hermetic origin based from the beginning on the cabalistic, astrologic, pythagorean, constructive and alchemy assimilation is unquestionable, for it is present in its own symbols and rites, composing its own scaffolding and even its entire building. The Masonry has an intimate relationship with the Hermetic Tradition and its symbolism, and it can be seen as the transmutation of the Alchemy Art, based on the fire and the metallic transmutation, to the symbolism of the Constructive Science, reflection of the Cosmic Construction. The importance of the Masonry as transmitter of the Hermetic Tradition ideas that has permanently fomented, has been fundamental both in this century and in the past one. In spite of this, it is obvious that the ancient customs, symbols, rites and secrets of the profession, fundamental in the Masonry, has been transmitted continuously since very remote dates, and the past from the operative to the speculative has been nothing but the adaptation of transcendental truths to new cyclical circumstances. It is important to note that the term operative does not refer only to the physical or construction work, material projection or planning of the works, but also to the possibility of the Masonry to operate the knowledge in the initiated through the tools that the Sacred Science, its symbols and rites supply. Hermes and the Hermetism, usual reference in the Masonry, to whom the teaching of all sciences is awarded, has enjoyed great prestige during the different periods of the history of the occidental culture. This has been true among the alchemists and the called hermetic philosophers posterior to the renaissance, and this same ideas have been manifested in the Order of the Rosicrucian Brothers. All these influences have been gathered by the Masonry at such level that it can be considered as a reservoir of hermetic wisdom and its transmitter in the last centuries, as a receptor of the Alchemist and Rosicrucian Principles. Even though it is true that the Masonry has its origins in the medieval stones quarries, and thereby in the religious rigidity of the conceptions of that time, it must not be forgotten that since that time until 18th century, when its speculative form takes form, these constructors have lived immersed in a new world, the world of the renaissance, inspirited in the CORPUS HERMETICUM, the pythagorean (also the Orphic Hymns and the Chaldean Oracles) and most of all in Plato, the neo-platonic and Proclus, which is reflected in its palaces, churches, gardens and towers, interior architecture, mechanical devices and other marvels of natural magic and scientific and artistic experimentation (paintings, sculptures and furniture) that had their origin in the Academy of the Medici, directed by Marsilio Ficino, whom influence extended all over Europe for almost three centuries. Based on all the subjects exposed above, will be more than confirmed that Lodge Urartu, with its promethean sense, seeks its roots in the past, set its view in the present and its dreams in a future in which all men brother in ideals and ambitions, gathered in the Masonry, can take the ideal of Science and Conscience to its maximum level. |
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