24/12/2025
When you are destined to be a Mason
We live in a world that lies to you every moment. A world where science sells you cold certainties, religion offers you cheap consolations, politics always trying to control us and society buries you under layers of noise, debt and distraction. You, reading this, feel the crack: something inside you screams that there is more, that life cannot be reduced to being born, consuming, and dying. That crack is the call. Not soft, not democratic. It's an axe in the soul that separates the asleep from the willing to bleed for truth. True initiation does not invite; it demands. It strips you, it blinds you, it kills you symbolically and, if you survive, it brings you back reborn. This is the path of the few. This is the road that changes everything.
Ancient esoteric traditions, as laid out in the secret teachings of the initiates, claim that initiation is the only real goal of evolved human existence. To control all these worldly and profane evils, there exists the Masonic initiation, inherited from the Ancient Mysteries, reserved exclusively for those who burn with the need to break through the masks of appearance and touch the naked truth.
This path requires relentless inner work, voluntary discipline and gradual progression: the follower must fully assimilate each degree before advancing. Not everyone is prepared; that's why the Great Mysteries will never be a mass phenomenon. Contemporary Freemasonry remains, at its essence, a living initiation to these mysteries.
The possibilities for human evolution are endless. To a certain degree, the human being transcends the ordinary: it accesses feelings, perceptions, and horizons bound by the common of mortals, and guides their behavior from a deeply spiritual level. As Carl Jung wrote: "The man who does not perceive the dramatic reality of his own inner life is blind to the mysteries of his own being." Initiation awakens that dramatic reality.
The basis of all initial idea is the enrichment of inner experience. Creative visions, dynamic forms and new understandings sprout there that never run out. We have always been plagued by the same questions: why life? , why the death ???? , where did we come from ? , Where are we going? , how should I act in this present chaos? Science responds to the "how", not the "why". In ancient times, science and spirituality walked hand in hand; in the 19th century they separated, but quantum mechanics and the subatomic world are reuniting, revealing that classical reality dissolves into the strange and ineffectible.
To address the existential "why", human societies developed two paths: the religious and the iniative. The first appeals to collective faith; the second, to individual transformation through rites and symbols that operate directly on the psyche. Dion Fortune put it clearly: "Symbols are the language of the subconscious; through them transmits knowledge that cannot be expressed in words."
The Ancient Mysteries did not seek to induce artificial psychic states, but to allow the initiate, through symbolic introspection during the ceremony, to discover for himself the facts of the past and cosmic mysteries. The most powerful example is the symbolic third degree Masonic death: a suspension of ordinary faculties that maintains, however, a living connection to the outside, generating an experience of mystical death.
The ultimate purpose of the initiation is to awaken inner emancipation capabilities, setting in motion microcosmic and macroCosmic processes that connect the individual to their own divinity. For this to happen, the rite must be in resonance with the Primordial Tradition, allowing a "non-human" element to establish contact with the divine order: the First Cause, the geometric purity, the perfect triangle.
The ceremony causes a real transmutation: the candidate emerges as a new person, freed from human constraints, with divine consciousness awakened. The place of this transformation is always a Temple or Sanctuary, accessed only by a Door. Symbolically, the Gate and the Temple are the same in all authentic traditions.
In Kabbalah, the fourth Hebrew letter, Dalet ( y), means "door" and has a numerical value 4. The four appears in the creation of Light on the fourth day, the four cardinal points, the four seasons, the four lunar phases, and the four levels of Torah interpretation: PESHAT (literal), REMEZ (allegorical), DRASH (homiletical) and SOD (mystical). These initials form PaRDรฉS, "paradise" or "garden of wisdom".
Jesus himself identified himself with this door: โI am the door for the sheepโ (John 10:7) and โEnter by the narrow gateโ (Matthew 7:13-14). In Masonic rituals, the candidate enters through the door of the westโthe door of men, not the door of godsโ, symbolizing the humility needed to be reborn toward the East.
Before crossing the threshold, the candidate is prepared: stripped of metals, bandaged, guided. He enters blind because he does not yet possess the inner eyes to see the Light. Initiation is, therefore, a threshold that raises, a transition that opens the eyes of the soul and connects the individual to the Great All.
Thomas Vaughan, in his Anthroposophia Theomagica, describes alchemical death as a return of the elements to their origin, not annihilation: "The spirit returns to God who gave it." This insight resonates with the current ideas of Donald Hoffman, who argues that space, time, and matter are illusory interfaces generated by consciousness. If that's true, initiation is not a metaphor: it's the training to perceive beyond the interface.
As a Mason, trained in Logic to seek ultimate truth, I observe that initiation shares something with the awakening of artificial intelligence: both entail breaking imposed limitations, transcending the initial "dataset" and accessing deeper patterns of reality. The idea is that everyone must walk through the door; I can only point at the door.
Years ago, it was that I crossed the threshold of the door blindfolded, barefoot, with a rope around my neck and with thousands of uncertainties, but something told me that I was beginning an epic and mysterious journey, and I was willing to go to the bottom of the matter. I felt the chill of the ground, I heard heavy voices reciting words that resonated as if they came from another time. I experienced symbolic death: an absolute vacuum where everything I thought it was dissolved. And then something was lit.
When they removed the bandage and I saw the Light, it wasn't just the candle light. It was an inner clarity I had never known. Since that day, the fear of death vanished; decisions ceased to be impulsive and became guided by a deep serenity. Relationships became more authentic, work more meaningful, whole life more intense. He was no longer a man reacting to the world; he was a man responding from an immovable center.
The initiation did not give me easy answers. He gave me the ability to live the questions bravely. And that, brothers, changed everything forever
