Rite Ecossais Ancien et Accepté

"Regards on" is a collection of video conference which invites all the visitors to share the experience of a personality.  Alain Bernheim questions about Freemasonry's history.  He talks about the birth of this brotherly movement and masonic initiation with unequal effect for everyone. Reminding his meeting with Joannis Corneloup, Marius Lepage and René Guilly, he evokes the creation of the magazines "Le Symbolisme" and "Ranaissance traditionnelle" through his own experience.

"Just like signs can be used to open secret doors, unknown ways in the canals of living esotericism, masonic words are key words which, give access to some mysteries" writes Jean-Jacques Gabut.  In the second part of exploration of the core of masonic symbols, the author talks about the power of the words, names and letters, highlighted in all traditional societies. He reminds the importance of the “right voice” and creative pronunciation, the hidden meaning of words and names which reveal the true personality of their bearer, like a spiritual language linked to the divine Spirit. He continues on the importance of the word in the ritual and pronunciation of the pledge, at the base of masonic initiation.

“Masonic symbolism is based on sacred architecture. Based on the model temple – the ideal of the Temple of Solomon, it expresses itself through that art – considered royal in its purest sense and traditional – that we call the art of construction” Jean-Jacques Gabut tells us.  Masonic symbolism is also reflected in its tools which are regarded as its servants, along with the myths and rites the initiate uses to bring life to stone and create symbols glorifying the Divine.

An Interview with Alain Bernheim - historian of Freemasonry - who reviews the Operative and Speculative origins of this initiatic tradition, describing both the birth of various different allegiances in Europe and their political and social concerns.

44-minutes presentation from the book  "Une certaine idée de la Franc-Maçonnerie ", paru chez Dervy.

Throughout centuries, In this 47-minutes presentation, Alain Pozarnik questions on the true foreign initiation to western modern thought. Talking about great concepts of every philosophy and every metaphysics, he starts from the same basis postulate: to become a true man, is to master ones animal impulses and its humanity mecanicity. Man of Neanderthal already questioned himself: where do I come from? Who am I? What will happen after I am dead? Since the dawn of time, man questioned himself about the presence and the influence of the unutterable.

What analogy is there between cubic stone of freemasons and metanoia? Is the initiatory approach comparable to the individuation process as he desires to live an authentic initiation between “the good reasons” that his intellect tells him or What analogy is there between cubic stone of freemasons and metanoia? Is the initiatory approach comparable to the individuation process as wrote Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961)? This one was influenced by great symbols of Freemasonry when he established psychology of the deep?