Friday, November 19, 2004
ODDS AND ENDS FROM RESEARCH
* * The Rosicrucians teach the Perennial Pilosophy.
* * There is a Loge Pythagore linked in the Rene Guenon Lodge Website. There is a Loge "Trismegiste" linked there as well. Students of the occult will immediately recognize both Pythagoras and Hermes Trismegistus.
* * Within the Gran Loggia Svizzero Alpina is a lodge that features the ouroboros on their website and speaks of "Tradizione Iniziatica Universale."
* * There is an article on the "Secret Tradition of Islam" on the website of "New Dawn Magazine." The article mentions the Cathars, the treasure of Montsegur, R. A. Gilbert (Canonbury Masonic Research Lodge), Manly P. Hall, Rosicrucians, and this quote:
Some of Europe's leading seekers after ancient secret wisdom were convinced that in the Muslim lands of the Orient could be found a Primordial Tradition transmitted from generation to generation within closed communities of initiates. They sought inspiration in a cultural and religious milieu long denounced as the "enemy" by European Christianity.
There is a section on Sufis that speaks of Jesus being the "Christian Gnostic idea of the relationship between Jesus, representing the exoteric, and the beloved disciple John to whom the esoteric doctrine was divulged." This esoteric doctrine, I presume, is Johannite Christianity.
Another quote: "Running through all Western culture are the threads of an 'underground' Primordial Tradition."
I suspect the magazine is the (or an) organ of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, but have not actually checked that out.
* * Lastly, a reader sent the following information but didn't realize she had sent it. Remember the World Wisdom books I blogged about extensively a few days ago, and their relationship with Sophia Perennis and Religio Perennis as publishers of Rene Guenon/Frithjof Schuon? World Wisdom has turned up in another place...The Masonic Restoration Society which is "committed to preserving the traditional values of Freemasonry." Click the top link.
