Eclipse of sun.
The square of Saturn was full of people who waved frantically with tinted windows, cameras and binoculars to watch, well equipped, the event of the century.
I look around, while the moon slowly begins to obscure the sun's surface. A little 'town was sheltered from the center of the square, at the extreme limits of a small circular garden, I see a used book stall and approach out of curiosity. As usual peep pictures, the covers .. I attract older editions .... I pick up, by chance, a small book yellow, with thin thin pages, written with a small character .... do not understand anything , has no title. Return it to the first pages, hoping for some clues and read: "Orient Lodge of Pistoia" and tracing, on the back cover, the date of publication: 1888.
The moon is nearing the half-darkness the sun ... even the bookseller in a hurry to close, so I decide to buy it without much thinking about it.
From the first pages:
"The image of Michelangelo Merisi that tradition has given us is enclosed in a figure that embodies the myth of 'accursed artist, the genius of the modern, from the soul deeply troubled destined to live in isolation loyalty to himself and to pay dearly for the freedom of their vision and their understanding of the art of the representation. In this representation certainly helped the stormy events that have animated his tormented life: murder, committed during a brawl, his escape on a pilgrimage to Italy and eventually death in despair, in which the legend has taken over, Feniglia in a Tuscan beach, after getting the papal pardon for murder. But it would be misleading to separate the human story of Caravaggio from poetry and revolutionary potential of his Masonic and artistic path. A style of painting, marked by dramatic power of his realism, the unique ability to combine reality and truth through the use of particular light. The light penetrates the deepest areas surrounded by areas shadow, enhancing the tension of the movement, revealing the feelings of human figures, immersed in an abstract space, but everyday. Light that is, at the same time, real and divine, and who escapes, escaping, showing the bodies and faces humanity is not fantastic and idealized, but alive, and therefore tragic. And it is tragic that the condition in life and art of Caravaggio find their point of connection and give us back the image of a modern artist and that of a spiritual brother in the strict sense. "
The Lodge of the East, thanks the intellectual contribution of some of its prominent leaders, has brought to light, rewritten current Italian and published a manuscript on parchment paper, Feniglia allegedly found on the beach, where we can see, almost entirely, the spiritual path taken by Caravaggio, from its beginnings to the achievement of fame in Rome. Thank you for Carlo Lorenzini deciphered and rewritten the text and the drawings faithfully copied, of whose origin we are not sure, but do not hesitate to give, by affinity of thought, the great genius of Michelangelo Merisi, called Caravaggio. "
I just finished reading the submission that the light suddenly froze, turned gray, cold, absent. The eclipse had reached its peak and the sun lit up the dark side of the moon. ... The black sun mystical vision of eternal Reality: Beheading of 'ego decapitation of reason, common sense obliteration, deletion of the name and personal point of view, calcination of the drive, fragmentation of meaning, and finally the scattering of ashes. For two years I
affannai to search among the official documents of Freemasonry at least a nod to the discovery of Caravaggio's manuscript, without getting any appreciable result. Only at the end of a job analysis of the correspondence of the lodge formed in Pistoia in 1876, I found a letter from the Countess Antoine Dumont sent to the Grand Master when recommending as a good writer Carlo Lorenzini, the author of a fable in which fine describes the surreal story of a wooden puppet, made by skilled hands a master carpenter who longed to "grow" a child.
Collodi, September 11, 2001
Finally, after two months of intense exchange of e-mail, I was able to obtain permission to examine the private papers of Carlo Lorenzini, aka Collodi. The author of Pinocchio was one of the few scientists to receive, through the intercession of the Curia of Florence, a church dispensation that allowed him to read the Index of Forbidden Books by the Church, banned by the Counter Reformation and then by the Holy Office founded by Pope Paul IV in 1559 and abolished in 1966.
I was rummaging through the papers concerning the establishment of the Italian Grand Orient (1861), of which he was honorary president Giuseppe Garibaldi, the first of all the Italian Freemasons, when I came across a correspondence between the Lorenzini and Carducci.
Here is the letter to his friend Carducci Lorenzini. .
"I believe that man can not be separated from a spiritual dimension of existence and that all attempts are made to eliminate this yearning upward, clearly present in humanity, have produced opprobrium on the side of censorship and freedom of thought and the strengthening of the other revealed religions.
How then does a layman, who does not want to delegate its relationship with the transcendent to anyone, let alone those who claim rights to exclusive with the Almighty, to approach the study of what appears to our senses perceive but with doubt and with the reasoning?
It 'possible that the choice should be, an Italian, submit to the dogmatic dictates of the Catholic Church or to renounce the search? This
not understand: why the intellectuals and artists too, do not take note that the instrument of lay spirituality exists and is Freemasonry?
Spirituality for me is the research branch of human personal and intimate that you can not benefit of the scientific method but that is done with the investigation and can not be just a place of thought as many believe.
Even there, as in research shareable (the scientific), there are disappointments and achievements and there is a method handed down from Freemasonry and consists of rites and symbols in order to help.
Unlike religions, it imposes dogma and is not intended as a link to anything but gives men participating in the work in the Lodge the opportunity to mirror each other to look inside and to pursue the goal of knowing oneself.
This is the only purpose. What's more secular and equidistant?: It is the view of downtown!
After all, is perhaps the only idea of \u200b\u200ba global organization that unites people leave their consciences.
As to the question of intellectual and artists should take note of all this is clear that if they leave their religion at the "management" of that longing to top this in the generality of men, to defend the secular and deeply convinced that without having to comply ultimately to a dogmatic reading of reality, there will be only atheists and do not believe this is in the interest of so-called secular societies.
It is not enough contrast to structured system of religion, personalistic type of generic alternatives, because this means in practice let hegemony.
In other words I think we need an awareness by the secular part of society. Awareness that may cast then acts in a manner to be determined and all who come later. The important thing is that it comes to the realization that given the presence in the majority of men, the desire for spirituality, if he leaves the exclusive management of the Catholic Church, you want to rely on the concept of secularism, when deep in the men, in the end, faced with existential problems, are only the Church to respond!
Under these conditions the secular thought is destined to remain a minority. The logical conclusion for me is that the secular society, in fact, should take care of the facilities where it is cultivated lay spirituality and I, who I know only one of these, I say that such attention should be paid to Freemasonry, or at least well to it.
a fraternal embrace.
Carducci
Rome
January 6, 1881
Collodi, September 12, 2001
It 'interesting that three years later, in 1884 published the encyclical Humanum Genus of Pope Leo XIII, who scored probably the time higher than the clash between the Catholic Church and Freemasonry: the papal document, in addition to charge the Freemasons "terrible revenge ... on who is believed guilty of having betrayed the secret and disobeyed the command, and that with so much audacity and dexterity that often the killer escapes to research and strokes of justice, "argued that the goal of the Masons was to" destroy from top to bottom all the religious and social discipline that came from the Christian institutions, and replace it with a new one modeled on their ideas, and fundamental principles and laws which are drawn from naturalism. "
Carducci followed to the letter of the copy of the letter sent by Carlo Collodi poet friend, but I did not have time to read it. A roar of voices came from the adjacent room. Television was broadcasting live from the collapse of the Twin Towers in New York ...
The two twin towers. ... The Judeo-Christian symbols of the empire was crumbling before the eyes of the world but ... was not imagination, it was actually happening. The curse uttered by Giordano Bruno at the stake before being burnt alive is coming true ...... The West Judeo-tanks was crying for terrorist acts by Muslim fanaticism and hid in the memory of the brutal massacres perpetrated
by the Catholic Church, English and Italian, Jews and unbelievers. Collodi would say about it, "the flour of the devil is all in bran.
The letter sent by Carlo Lorenzini to Carducci contained a significant step in this regard:
".. you know I'm just a poor idiot, I've never been and never will, as he wrote in our common enemy" John Meadows "A lunatic apostle a symbol of political and religious. "I am by my nature, experience and tradition of the world and therefore culture, a secular journalist, critic and witty, just enough to not take sides with neither popes nor with Freemasons. I can not stand any form of fanaticism, I will boil the blood in the veins
in rereading the history of Italy at the mercy of the fanatics, be they Catholics or atheists of the worst kind.
What is fanaticism? E 'take their faith for knowledge, or wanting to impose by brute force, or that of words and images of censorship or manipulation of others' ideas. The two things almost always go hand in hand: dogmatism and terror feed off each other.
Religion is a right. The irreligion too. We must therefore strive to protect one or the other, or even against each other if necessary, preventing both to impose itself by force. This applies, in essence, what I call "being secular," and is the most precious legacy that comes to us from before the Enlightenment and the Renaissance. Day after day I discover the fragility of this country with intelligence and lucidity. All the more reason to defend it, even though today, I confess, I am deeply pessimistic about the possibility of real change in
consciences. He approached me for the time of exile inner dell'introversione in the belly of the whale as Jonah .... return to the soft underbelly of my mind, to cultivate, nourish and defend freedom of my spirit. Freedom of spirit is perhaps the only thing that is more precious than peace. Because without it, even peace is nothing but slavery. "
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September 13, 2001
depression suffered by Carlo Collodi began probably in 1878. For six years, until 1884, the author of Pinocchio retired from acquaintances and even the mundane activities of his caustic and irreverent journalist was reduced gradually until it turns off. Some modern critics have traced the "disease" Lorenzini of the reasons for a real "journalism and spiritual death", so that in 1984 was released a book We assume a direct link to its withdrawal with the experiences of Nigredo alchemy.
For alchemists Nigredo the "death of the soul and the ego decapitation" represent the extremes of the descent into hell, the top floor "basement" of the elevator reached the devil, before reversing the direction of march. Collodi published in serial form in The Adventures of Pinocchio "Journal of Children" July 7, 1881, three years after a stay in the seventeenth century villa of the Marquise Anton Dupont, a cousin by the mother of Giuseppe Mazzini. Perceived the existence of a secret link between the source of depression and the summer holiday spent among the gentle hills of Tuscany.
October 11, 2003.
25 months had passed since the collapse of the Twin Towers and the world situation had fallen in the War on Iraq of Saddam. On 1 May 2003, President George W. Bush proclaimed the end of fighting: "In the war against Iraq, the United States of America and our allies have prevailed", but still failed to capture the Rais, the symbol of evil.
Since I was carrying the book of Michelangelo Merisi transcribed by Collodi, I started to consider plausible the existence of a possible salvation "lay" of the soul. World events were probably not even be that humanity was descended into hell assumed the Nigredo by alchemists?
I was wondering if the individual experience of the redemption from evil "could be symbolically extended to what was happening in Iraq. The collective consciousness of Western Saddam wanted to identify and eradicate the evil to be found from the "collective body".
And the destruction of the twin towers of New York? Not symbolized perhaps the "definitive" death of the soul and the repeated beheading Catholic Jewish spiritual Ego? Right or wrong that was my reasoning, inspired by the prophecy of Giordano Bruno, was undeniable that the new millennium began in the worst way ... but how often Collodi said ... "all the evil was not to harm."
Immersed in these reflections leaden I came to St. Sepulchre in the hope of finding more clues in the summer residence of the Marquise
I rang the bell hanging on the long-gate without getting great response. Then I became aware of the existence of an electric bell and smiles pathetically my instinctive. I felt strange, like you're experiencing something that had happened long ago. I seemed to be split into two: a rational conscious part of living in this impersonal and a conscious part was reliving a past experience. The tolling of the bell reminded me of Bell's theorem: "In the Universe we have the principle of non-locality, by which the phenomena occur as if everything was in direct contact with each other, regardless of the physical space and time that separates them. "
theorem developed by physicist John Stewart Bell in 1960 had already been anticipated by the findings from scientific research in the early years of the century. Everything was left with the experiment of Einstein, Podolsky and Rosen made the May 8, 1908 in Vienna. The experiment consisted in separating the two particles coupled or "twin" (born together in the same event), change the behavior of a and observe simultaneously the behavior of the other. One of the properties that describes subatomic particles is the direction of rotation, called spin. Well, if one of the two particles, once separated and removed from the "little sister", is reversed rotation, and instantly regardless of the distance separating the two particles also the "sister" reverses its direction of rotation.
Bell's theorem shows extensively than an interaction between two particles took place in the past, or "with" the past, through a book, a song or an image, creates between them a form of linkage that goes beyond space and time.
For a moment, some theorized that "particles of consciousness" of Carlo Lorenzini me they were "revenue" in the brain through the book on Caravaggio and were "working" independently to take me to some answers .... I felt my forehead ... I had a fever ... and yet rave.
The gate opened automatically and entered in a beautiful garden filled with camellias and gray cats ....
