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Tuesday, 23 November 2010 - Roger Dachez
 This recording was filmed during a white table organized by the lodge "Les Amis Fidèles" (The Faithful Friends) at the Grand Orient de France."To initiate" someone, in its etymological meaning, is "to put him on the way". Yet in ordinary language "to be initiated" means to reach a high level of knowledge... Where does that misinterpretation come from? The Internet has deeply ch
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Friday, 22 October 2010 - Françoise Bonardel
 From Christians to Jewish including Arabs and Druses, from Paracelsus to Leonard da Vinci, Rabelais, Rimbaud... since the Hellenistic Greece to modern times : scholars, esotericists, scientists, philosophers, poets, musicians, doctors haven't stopped to draw from the hermetic knowledge's abundance.
Philosophy? Gnosis? Mystic? Religion? Ancient hermeticism is a doctrinal corpus extremely rich and
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Friday, 15 October 2010 - Alain Pozarnik
 The keen interest to knowledge and spiritual dimension of man is accompanied of a proliferation of the number of groups, researches, called "esoteric" which often Yet, Freemasonry, in spite of its diverse movement, claims it is an initiatory order which aim is to work on symbolism. Is the work on symbols an « esotericism» ? The word "esoteric", etymologically "inner", refers t
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Friday, 17 September 2010 - Michael Sebban
 For what reasons does Kabbalah (which let's say it again is a synonym of the word "plot" in English - it would about time that our encyclopedists change this, Ed) does it In what consists this initiatory Jewish metaphysic and what is its significance now? To answer this question, we have gathered, with Fred Abram Profeta, two kabbalists: Marc Halévy and Michael Sebban. "Man can only know what he
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Friday, 10 September 2010 - Pierre Barrucand
 A historic panorama and the current relation between Christian Churches and Freemasonry.The history of facts and ideas isn't a long, quiet river. Thus, what fortune made that the medieval operative Freemasonry (cathedral builders) really Christian (cf extracts from the Regius Manuscript - 1390 - quoted by Jean-François Var) became in the 19th century, in France, under the influence o
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Friday, 27 August 2010 - Christian Bouchet
 The two words "esotericism" and "radical right-wing" have many common things: both are counter-cultures and its followers reject, in a comparable way (and not analog), society. Both gather under a same vocable very heterogeneous sensibilities. Both aim at certain form of elitism, verticality: in aristocracy, monarchy or in mystic.For about thirty years, these two meanings, which have always
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Friday, 16 July 2010 - André Kervella
 What is the Scottish Rite ? To André Kervella "Freemasons have never been clear about the origins and the characteristics of this descent of the 18th century, yet if you don't know where you come from, it will be hard to define yourself! "The word "Scotland" is indeed omnipresent in Freemasonry, in the name of its rituals (Scottish Rite, Scottish Rectified Rite) but also of its degrees (Scottish
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Saturday, 12 June 2010 - Roger Dachez
 Freemasonry is in Freemason's mind as in people's mind surrounded by secrets. These secrets fed many suppositions, stories or even slanders. For about thirty years, searchers, among them: Roger Dachez, André Kervella and Robert Kalbach have worked on historical known deeds and have replaced them precisely in their contexts and their chronology.Their work, crucial, enables us to compre
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Friday, 30 April 2010 - Jean Solis
 Far from usual clichés about Freemasonry, wheeler-dealer or plotting, which since the time of Vichy seem completely outdated, we asked two Freemasons committed in a updating Freemasonry: Jacques Fontaine and Jean Solis, to answer this question: is Freemasonry at the twilight of its mission? The wish of this debate is to go to the center of many interrogations:- From
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Friday, 23 April 2010 - Jean-Pierre Laurant
 The word esotericism, even though it dates back to 1828, covers very old notions, Since the 15th century, intellectuals: humanists philosophers, Rabbis, ecclesiastics, reacting to a teaching more and more academic of theology, by the discovery of neoplatonicians and of the Corpus Hermeticum, tried to establish a Philosophia Perennis: a medium universal line between radical Aristotelea
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Friday, 06 November 2009 - Eric Geoffroy
At the Institut du Monde Arabe (Institute of Arab World), Eric Geoffroy, Michel Cazenave, Vincent Aucante and Fabrice Midal talked in a debate led by Bernadette Sauvaget, about the release of a book by Eric Geoffroy "Islam will be spiritual or won't be anymore" edited by the Seuil editions. Post modernity, of which Nietzsche is the great prophet, testifies of a kind of surpassing of the world an
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