Freemasonry and Solar Lapidary Alchemy

Freemasonry and Solar Lapidary Alchemy Victor. A. Cabello. Reyes. CR +🌹 Spiritual Freemasonry sinks its fine deep and complex roots into ritual and theurgical practices aimed at the total transformation and solar and alchemical renewal of the initiate. The hermetic-alchemical tradition teaches and points towards a renewed solar return, as a faithful and safe reconquest or reconstruction of the Sacred Way. Consequently, the Golden Chain and its many ramifications cannot be altered, since these faithfully follow the path of the Heart and the prisca theologia of the “bios theoretikos” (… what is called 'following one's heart' (shemes-ib) by the Egyptians), according to Algis Uzdavinys. It is the Ancient Way as a way of life and an immemorial Tradition of Wisdom, which leads directly to the reception and reconquest of the celestial effluvia emanating from the unique Source of Universal Fluid and Solar Gold. Curiously, the path or VIA of the initiate is beyond any doubt, the same zodiacal trajectory of an old solar astrological path, aimed at the search for that sacred medicine or "katholikon pharmacon" light= ( Luminis Naturae Bonum Finitum ), as Alchemical Panacea and salutífera Universal Medicine. Hiram Abiff, -like all Hermeses (HRM) -, represent and embody the Tradition of the Secret Secretorum or Royal Art and Sacred Perennial Wisdom. But it is not only that, the Alchemist Masters teach through their allegories and symbols of the Real and Constructive Art, the unique process of the complicated "initiatory circumambulatio " -Sun astrological path-; on a spiral and gradual trajectory immersed in a spiritual journey framed within an entire complicated spiritual, sacred and deeply mystical Templar geography. The temple then resembles the mirror of the cosmos in man, history and nature. And more particularly, to achieve through the Mysteries to be able to assimilate and merge the flowery essence of the chrysanthropes and the Primordial Golden Man. Made and purified as an imperial eagle or Alchemical Sun. The Venerable Master Builder represents the path of the Great Work and the glorious achievement through the alchemical theurgy of chrysopoeia, located between the portentous sublime and regenerative stages of alchemical transformation. In turn, its jewel is a Solar Squad. Every journey of the initiate is a path of solar path from the northeast point = (Learner's Column). As can be seen, we can then purify ourselves in the Divine Art and initiatory alchemical process of carving the rough stone= (Lapis Angularis). By carving it, we were then able to reformulate and redirect a process of reintegration and sublimation of the philosopher's stone. The Divine essence "enclosed" is released -patiently-, through a theurgical and practical process through the alchemical process. Potentially assimilating the regenerating notion of sympathy and correspondence between planets and internal metals. We are astrological Cosmos! In this way, Ascent and Descent are part of the same process of the alchemical-masonic ladder. " Alchemy raises different questions, at least in its spiritualized form that makes it a ritual, or a magical act intended to return to a part of matter some of the original glory that the entire world enjoyed before, or before, the fall. of the successive falls, the same alchemist benefiting from said transmutation ”. (Antoine Faivre, Ancient and Medieval Sources of Modern Esoteric Movements , p. 73). All initiation process is a Travel Solar = ( Operate Solis), where we use incorporear cosmic fluids and heavenly essences in a meeting between alchemical correspondences between impure and pure in personal microcosm patient. “The Fleece represents the liquid, astral gold, extracted from the nature of higher realities and from the elements; as soul and seed, as a solar substance flowing out of God's bounty, it gives life to things, sustains them, and is able to penetrate the most dense an solid bodies. '' (Antoine Faivre, The Golden Fleece and Alchemy , p. 41). This Primordial Tradition turns out to be the backbone of the old medieval operative masonry and, never its golden chain was interrupted between the XVI and XVII centuries: “With their roots in Masonic symbolism and ritual, the magical orders sought to evoke powers on the inner or higher planes of reality”… (Nicholas Goodrick Clarke, The Western Esoteric Traditions , p. 207). There is no doubt that it passes unscathed as an unaltered tradition from the Great Temples = (the Cathedrals), directly following the small Temple = (the Symbolic Lodges). It is possible, therefore, that a certain tendency of Alchemical and Masonic Hermeticism ( Ex Uno Omnia) already existed immovable from the millennial constructive patterns of Medieval operative Art; immersed and effulgent, in symbolic philosophy ((sculptores lapidum liberorum ), and resplendent among the artisanal messages of the polished stone of the great Gothic Cathedrals. “However, in making the distinction, it was to be forgotten-as the term“ Speculative Freemasonry ”entered into Masonic currency- that the so-called operative masons (and later 'Freemasons') had been speculating for thousands of years!' '. (Tobias Churton, Freemasonry, The Reality , p. 117). In this historical context, the doctrine of immanence of this operative and alchemical secret of the re-ascension and spiritual transformation of man is transmitted unchanged through the hidden-alchemical meaning of the transformation and polishing of the stone. In this way, Tradition and its celestial virtues were transmitted through an elaborate- “ Theo-Theurgia-Philosophica-Alkimica-Theoretica and Practice” -, by elements of advanced intellectual between the religious orders in mutual agreement and spiritual complicity with the Master Builders (remember that both the Regius Manuscript and the Cooke are: "... typical piece of monastic scholarship." (Ezmond Mazet, Freemasonry and Esotericism , pp. 337-338). The Masonic symbols, such as the Sun, Moon and Master Mason triad, demonstrate their origin from this medieval iconography according to Mazet. “The work of the medieval masters was made possible through collaboration with the most intelligent men in the religious orders” (Dr. Tobias Churton, Freemasonry p. 121). The Royal Art or Royal Art was hidden among the incomparable symbology of the construction work. In such a way, the supreme idea was to imitate the cosmic designs reflected in the body of man and to proceed through Theurgy to be able to "lower" the Wisdom of the Logos, through the solar energy of the superior temples for their consequent alchemical transformation= (Dew of Mount Hermon). It is recognized in the process that a flowing universal sympathetic relationship governs the manifestations of the cosmos and, as Swedenborg well said: "The visible world, as a whole, is nothing more than the representation of the spiritual world." Which indicates, that this allows us to elucidate, the existence of a world unified by the cosmos-body analogy, since the basic structure of the Celestial Temple is kept in the antipodes of the physical body. Master Florido Cornelio Agrippa confirms: "This happens this way because we are subjected to a celestial figure, and according to her it is how our body moves." The initiate in his aspiration to unity = totality = Ex Uno Omnia , thus manages to integrate into the conscious and mystical polishing of the stone. He first sits on it. By enclosing in himself (Man Know thyself), the solar seeds, his process is assimilated to a fall and ritual reintegration, directed exclusively himself, towards the formal search for Sophia = Wisdom. Thus managing to enter, into a structure and millennial Corpus of initiatory Misterica and of light totality, immersed within a great and macrocosmic process of cosmic purification and regeneration. Let's say that the spiritual takes shape and the body becomes more spiritual. Hermes and Hiram are the quintessence of that Sperm of Gold and primordial substance or Breath of the Universe as cosmic fluid ( chyma, c hymos ), patiently and wisely extracted from the dew of heaven = (Sacred Ampoule) ! Like Flor de Lis and purest Solar essence ! "If you do not render corporeal substances incorporeal, and incorporeal substances corporeal, and if the two are not made one, nothing will be achieved". (Maria Prophetess, Alchemical Traditions ; Edited by Aaron Cheak, p. 33). The transformation of the stone then becomes, in a rigorous and careful theurgical and alchemical process and also, profoundly metallurgical, whose ultimate purpose is to achieve the anagogical objective of the harmonious regeneration of humanity. And, in effect, the phases of the Work between falls and elevations of the compounds and elements, turn out to be, the same stages of the transformation of the raw stone. The putrefaction of the raw material = (melanosis-nigredo), and the regeneration of Master Hiram are assimilated and pointed out in the same cyclical process of transmutation, death and alchemical rebirth. Here the symbolic and operational teaching of the metallurgical art of the old sage Tubalcaín materializes. D. Knoop, G. P. Jones and D. Hamer, mention certain theurgical and ritual practices indicated in the Graham Manuscript (1726?), Where the powerful words that as speculative emission and spell of Kabbalah refer to a sacred ritual process are emphasized . "Alchemy was more or less viewed as the quintessence of all esoteric knowledge, so it is perfectly natural to think that it was the TRUE SECRET OF MASONRY." (Antoine Faivre, Jacob Needleman, Spirituality of Modern Esoteric Movements , p. 359). Cosmos and creation merge in the stages of "Theion ergon" and Opus of the initiatory process in the Labyrinthine Path -black and white slabs-. of the eager search for the inner light of the Know yourself. Evidence of the Golden Fleece. Legendary Hermetic Masons teach and tell their sacred stories hidden among the antediluvian columns and in the hidden properties of our stone. This legacy and brotherhood between Hermes and Hiram is very well documented by the rich investigations of the scholar Federico González in his excellent work: Hermetic Tradition and Freemasonry. "In the old Cooke manuscript (circa 1,400) of the British Library, it is read in paragraphs 281-326 that all the antediluvian wisdom was written in large columns": according to researcher González. For Ostanes, the teacher of Democritus ( Physika kai Mystika -Bolos de Mende?), The books of Wisdom were hidden in the Sacred Column or Pillar of the Temple and, “the first thing that one should do was to know the stone” called by Democritus: "the highly named but unnamed" (Marcelin Berthelot, Introduction A L'Etude de la Chimie des Ancients et des Moyen Age , pp. 216-219 and Kevin Van Bladel, The Arabic Hermes , pp. 51-52). Indeed; These Pillars that the wise and learned Albert Pike considers phallic! "And the pillars of the temple at Jerusalem were evidently phallic." (Albert Pike, The Book of Words , p. 36). The Sons of Hermes are also sons of Orpheus and Hiram and they travel the same Immanent and Transcendent Way = (ambula ab intra or via interior), totally immersed and hidden among the operations and transformations of Real Art. The hermetic duality is found between the columns of the Sun = Gold and the Moon = Silver. It should be clarified that the process whitens, refines and spreads the primordial situation of the original cosmic chaos in an ontological and dialectical process of struggle and transformation. This is how the Ouroboros bites its tail. Undoubtedly, in this way "nature surpasses nature" and the purpose of initiation would be to sublimate the spiritual densities and substances of the neophyte on the light path to the Master. Only in this way can we remove once and for all the symbolic "bandage" to achieve the divine vision. "The vision not only graphically expresses the hermetic doctrine of soul purification and ascension to God, but illustrates Zosimus' belief that correct alchemical knowledge of the properties of matter is essential if the soul is to be liberated from tribulations of the body ”. (Peter Marshall, The Philosopher's Stone , p. 253). It is possible that the hidden end of Freemasonry is a veiled and symbolically illustrated universal alchemy where Gold-making is directed toward soul purification and redirected to refine the gross compounds of the hermetic fall to the solar reunion . “He becomes a Stone in the edifice of the temple and must square and perfect himself up for the job. He makes the temple with himself. ” (Dr. Tobias Churton, Freemasonry The Reality , p. 13). If some still attend your lodge as a Social Club or Gentleman's Club ... they lose their Cheers!