Des dels primers temples de l'home fins a les al·legories de la maçoneria moderna, l'àguila s'ha elevat com a emblema hieràtic de l'Esperit, la Visió i l'Ascensió.
A Egipte era l'ull vivent de Ra, que s'aixecava des de l'horitzó com l'ànima del sol.
Entre els perses i els caldeus significava el principi reial del foc, el guardià alat de l'autoritat divina. Per als grecs era l'ocell de Zeus, el llamp del qual descendia com a judici i revelació.
Sempre és la mateixa figura: el missatger ràpid entre el Cel i la Terra, l'ànima que s'atreveix a l'empireu.·.🦅🪜❤️🔥
Maybe you’ve seen the "Freemason pyramid” on the dollar bill, seen the #SquareandCompass logo on buildings, or wondered about the meaning behind the trowel. What’s the history behind Masonic symbols?
Learn more: https://t.co/H9aX9UH0lj
#MasonsofCA
El Manuscrito Sloane n.º 3329, perteneciente a los fondos del Museo Británico es una pieza clave de la historia. Documenta la existencia de una masonería de 3 grados antes de 1717. Abrimos hilo para conocer sus detalles. 👇 #Historia#GLE
Whence Come You?
The development of the Craft from its operative roots in the Middle Ages all the way to the modern era.
A fascinating history and one of evolution and change whilst maintaining a shared heritage. #Freemasonry#History#Freemason#MasonicHistory
Avui s'ha inaugurat l'#AnyIrla, en commemoració del naixement del germà maçó Josep Irla i Bosch, el president que va sostenir la Generalitat republicana a l'exili durant la pitjor etapa del franquisme.
The "Chain of Logic"
Craft: You learn the basic philosophy.
Royal Arch: You find the "lost" spiritual meaning of that philosophy.
Athelstan: You explore the English heritage and legal origins of how those groups came to be organised in the British Isles
@WessexAthelstan
La obra «Masonería diseccionada» constituye el texto antimasónico más antiguo que se conoce. Fue publicado en 1730 por Samuel Prichard en forma de libro panfletario con la pretensión de desmitificar y ridiculizar los ritos y secretos de la incipiente masonería especulativa. #GLE
Among the Gods of the ancients none bore a countenance more subtle or protean than Mercury. He was the winged herald, the interpreter between realms, at once patron of eloquence, commerce, and cunning. In his hands were the caduceus and the lyre, symbols of mediation and harmony: the one pacifying strife, the other attuning the soul. He was guide of souls, psychopomp and intercessor, a figure who crossed boundaries no other dared to traverse.
Astrology preserved this multiplicity in the planet that bears his name. Mercury is never far from the Sun, flitting like quicksilver at dawn and dusk. He rules Gemini and Virgo, signs of speech and discernment, and is exalted in the careful measures of Virgo’s exactitude. Yet he suffers detriment and fall where judgment becomes clouded—in Pisces, where rational clarity dissolves in waters of vision and dream. Thus the astrologer reads in Mercury both the heights of reason and the abysses of deception.
In the natal figure Mercury describes the mind: its swiftness, its manner of grasping truth, its propensity to order or to scatter. When dignified he grants precision, wit, and inventive craft. When afflicted he inclines to restlessness, trickery, and sophistry. His aspects with Mars sharpen the tongue into a blade; with Jupiter they broaden intellect into philosophy; with Saturn they discipline thought into lasting structure. Always he is messenger, shaping the way a man speaks to the world and to himself.
To the Mason and the philosopher, Mercury represents that mediating principle by which opposites are reconciled. He is the living bridge between visible and invisible, thought and word, mortality and the divine. In every chart he shows how the soul negotiates its path, whether through careful reason or subtle intrigue. For just as his myths unite trickster and sage, so too the planet signifies both the possibility of wisdom and the peril of misdirection.
Is it not thus that the human mind itself reflects Mercury’s ambivalence—capable of both revelation and deceit, of building temples of truth or labyrinths of error?
El Centre de la Memòria de Salamanca muntarà una recreació actualitzada d'una lògia maçònica
La nova estructura s'instal·larà en un espai proper al de l'actual sala maçònica
Per José Ángel Montero GACETA de Salamanca
https://t.co/xMsuDVst1S
In Memory Of William Prosser Jarvis Of This Town. Builder, Who Died March 10, 1864 Aged 62 Years.
(spotted at St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye, Hereford by my good friend 📷 @dianeechambers) #freemasonry#mementomori
308 years ago today, the Premier Grand Lodge was founded at the Goose and Gridiron Tavern in St Paul's Churchyard 🥳
Here is a historical representation of the Tavern in the form of a drawing, alongside an AI generated version 🤖
#Freemasons
El 24 de junio de 1717 se fundó la primera Gran Logia de Masones Ingleses en Londres. La reunión ocurrió en la taberna Goose and Gridiron cercana a la Catedral de San Pablo. #GLE#Masonería
#Agenda Torna a l'agenda del museu una de les activitats amb millor acollida any rere any!
🏛️Temple maçònic? Misteris i símbols
👉 Ja disponibles al web les entrades per a les sessions dels mesos de juny, juliol, agost i setembre.
https://t.co/MpAdZpMzJ9.
Us hi esperem!