A Spanish-speaking town where it rains perpetually is on its last legs as the acidic rain causes more and more deaths every day, and there’s no freshwater to drink. On top of that, people in the town have been disappearing continuously, without a trace, and the police are useless, although that’s not a surprise. The police are usually a tool at the disposal of the one who holds the scepter of power, so it’s no wonder that the police make no bones about investigating the increasing disappearances, nor do they bother to bring an end to the growing discord in the city. Frank Molina, a journalist-turned-drunkard who spent some time in a mental institution after a psychological breakdown, is struggling to find work, but news organizations don’t care about thought provoking editorial pieces. Media craves sensationalism, and raunchy pictures and pictures of dead bodies offer the morbid and sadistic pleasure that the media thrives off. When one such picture of a dead body comes to Frank’s attention, he decides to put his soul into getting to the bottom of the cancer that has gripped the city. Someone once told me: “Books are where stories go to die.” I do not agree with that. Books are where stories—or ideas—provide torchlight, as this enduring work does. But if you sit under the torch and get transfixed you do not proceed anywhere. You become a stagnant journeyer who believes that the circle of light and relative warmth of the torch are all there is, or are at least the safest place to dwell. This is not dissimilar to the predicament facing the cave-dwellers in Plato’s classic allegory. Manly P. Hall is widely recognized as the preeminent voice of occult scholarship in the twentieth century, famous for his esoteric masterpiece The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928). Now, in this “deluxe edition,” Hall’s earliest work, The Initiates of the Flame, is reborn with a full complement of illustrations and historical introductions. A great hand reaches out from the unseen and regulates the affairs of man. It reaches out from that great spiritual Flame which nourishes all created things, the never dying fire that burns on the sacred altar of Cosmos—that great fire which is the spirit of God. Encounter a unique story shrouded in mystery and conspiracy told over the course of this mystery puzzle horror adventure.

While the songs, and the number of them vary with each lodge most lodges sing the visitor’s song and one of the two versions of the masters song. Masonic Toasts – The visitor’s song The Initiated (Los Iniciados) is a good crime thriller with an excellent lead performance by the film’s star, Andrés Parra. The actor plays the role brilliantly here, slowly winding up the manic behavior in his performance. The turn goes way beyond general paranoia and having friends not believing him.

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It is a privilege to present this new edition of The Initiates of the Flame. But relaunching such a book also begs the question: What can we learn today from a statement of symbolical philosophy? Meanwhile, Frank began his vociferous investigation and eventually discovered a foundry, the real owner of which had gone missing, but the foundry itself was under the name of a man named Torres. What Frank found inside the foundry was nightmarish, however. Everyone who refused to bend to the will of a (metaphorical) massive beast with many teeth and fangs ended up at the bottom of the foundry in ashes. Frank’s investigations got him at the wrong end of the worst kind of people, but determined to reach an end to this canker that was slowly engulfing his city; Frank kept pushing without fail. Perhaps the only other person who was truly trying to help the impoverished dying of thirst was Father Lazaro, a priest who would bring clean water to the thirsty and bread to the starving. From where did Father Lazaro bring this clean water to a city that was dying of thirst? Why did the people keep disappearing one after the other, and what did the powerful people want from them? Does Frank reach the bottom of the answers, or does he fall prey to this machine that ingests the hapless and helpless and spits out the bones? The Initiated is one movie you shouldn’t miss to find out these answers and more. Published in 1922, when Hall was just twenty-one years old, The Initiates of the Flame was, effectively, the teacher’s earliest public statement—appearing six years before The Secret Teachings of All Ages—and it heralded the arrival of the preeminent voice of esoteric inquiry of the new century.

From Anderson’s Book of Constitutions, 1723 the Imitates song is one of the earliest known Masonic songs. It was by an actor/comedian, Matthew Birkhead, who was given a Masonic funeral on the 12th of January 1723. And is sung to an old Irish tune. There is an engraved sheet of 1730 with the words and music printed thereon :- The young scholar was a curator as much as a philosopher, and maybe more so. He brilliantly imbibed esoteric tradition, often Western but sometimes Eastern, and reinterpreted it for modern readers—and for himself. The Initiates of the Flame is a codex of symbolism, ethics, eternal needs, and the search for truth. The period in which Hall wrote this book resembled our own. The United States—the Canadian-born youth’s adopted home—had just emerged from a worldwide pandemic experienced in 1918 at the grinding end to World War I. Economically, politically, and culturally the world was marked by uncertainty, decline of old empires, mass migration, and rising nationalism. The last of those factors raged on despite the horrific events wrought by nationalism in the just-ended war—and nationalist passions on an unprecedented scale would soon engulf the world again. Intermixed with all this was a sense of individual possibility and of a future that could appear exciting, unsettled, and wide open.The Mason’s Chain again which is not practiced in all lodges is another old part of the Festive board As part of the Initiation ceremony the Brethren form a continuous double chain by linking hands across the brother on each side. Masonic songs At the very least, I hope that this book gives you an entry point of inquiry into the symbols that it analyzes. Like most of us, I build my search upon the work of people who came before me or whose efforts inspired me, including Manly P. Hall. But I do not personally seek to use their analyses or conclusions as recipes. Rather I regard precursory works as points of embarkment for my own experiments and questions to which I alone am subject and for which I am responsible. As we think of the nations that are past, of Greece and Rome and the grandeur that was Egypt’s, we sigh as we recall the story of their fall; and we watch the nations of today, not knowing which will be the next to draw its shroud around itself and join that great ghostly file of peoples that are dead.