No Longer Divided
Freemasonry, Symbol, and Transmission in the Modern World
Freemasonry still guards its symbols. What is scarce are men able to receive them. An essay written from within on the crisis of language and the crisis of initiation — one crisis, not two — and on the road back: through the Trivium, across the frontier between psyche and spirit, and into the temple read entire.
The opening pages and the first chapter are free to read here. The rest of the book is in print and as an ebook.
Contents
In Memoriam
Acknowledgments
A Word to the Reader
Prologue
The Word as the Beginning of the Way
Part I
The diagnosis: what has been lost
Chapter 1
What Freemasonry Is
Chapter 2
Where It Comes From, and How It Is Recognized
In the book
Chapter 3
Initiation: Neither Religion, nor Mysticism, nor Sect, nor Secret Society
In the book
Chapter 4
Moralism in Modern Freemasonry
In the book
Chapter 5
The Rise of the Ego
In the book
Chapter 6
No One Gives What He Does Not Have
In the book
Chapter 7
Art, or Where the Sacred Took Refuge
In the book
Chapter 8
The Disguise of Occultism
In the book
Part II
The Trivium: the preparation of the instrument
Chapter 9
Grammar: The Art of Naming Reality
In the book
Chapter 10
Logic: The Art of Ordering the Mind
In the book
Chapter 11
Rhetoric: The Art of Transmitting the Truth
In the book
Part III
From the government of the psyche to the awakening of the spirit
Chapter 12
Psyche and Spirit
In the book
Chapter 13
Jung and the Collective Unconscious
In the book
Chapter 14
The Multiple States of the Being
In the book
Chapter 15
The Way and Its Conditions
In the book
Chapter 16
The Master and the Rite
In the book
Chapter 17
Initiatic Death
In the book
Part IV
The great synthesis
Chapter 18
The Lodge as Compendium: Reading the Temple with the Repaired Instrument
In the book
Chapter 19
Gathering What Is Scattered: Athens and Jerusalem in One Room
In the book
Chapter 20
The Questions of the Porch
In the book
Chapter 21
The Lodge at Work
In the book
Chapter 22
The Man Who Builds His Own Temple
In the book
Epilogue
Four Roads to the Same Question
In the book
Sources
In the book
Notes and Sources
In the book