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Mason bullshit:

THE SYMBOLISM OF THE ROSE.

The Rose is the sacred flower of the West, its five petals symbolize the sacred number 5 which represents man and the microcosm, that is why its equivalence with the five-pointed star (pentagram or pentagram) are the four elements and the quintessence.

Normally the rose, in its symbolism, is equivalent to that of the heart. The heart has been used since ancient times as a symbol of the spiritual center of the Being. If the brain is the center of rational, sequential and distinctive thought; the Heart is the center of spiritual, intuitive, universal and immediate consciousness.

When the heart in this sense is illuminated, and is filled with divine knowledge, it is symbolized as a rose with open petals. Because the actualization of its primordial nature has blossomed in it, of its initial purity, which we lose, in the fall towards the material world.

The symbolism of the heart and the rose are equivalent. As is the case of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, also surrounded by thorns. It is in any case, among many things, a symbol of regeneration, resurrection and vivification.

Floral symbolism is strongly associated, for example, among Sufis and Islam, with the meaning of perfume. When the heart opens and the rose blooms, the delicious aroma of love can be perceived.

Quoting the expert on Sufism Idriesh Shah: “All dervishes use the rose or ward (in Arabic) as an emblem of the word wird (meaning remembrance of God) or warid, in exercises of contemplation and concentration.”

Regarding the word rose in Arabic (Ward), its root has the connotation of “arriving, going and descending.” In that sense, it is the receiver of spiritual realities in the heart. Rain and dew also symbolize this descent of blessings or “baraka.”

Another symbol directly linked to the rose is that of the Holy Grail, the cup with the blood of Christ, or the receptacle, always with the idea of ​​being a container of the spiritual essence.

The flower, in fact, evokes by its shape the idea of ​​being the receptacle and we speak of the chalice of the flower. In the East, the symbolic flower par excellence is the lotus; in the West, the rose often plays this same role. We do not mean that this is the only meaning of the latter, nor of the lotus.

All this is directly associated with the figures of the radiant heart or the celestial rose covered by flames or light.

The internal fire is a purifying agent (as is pain, or thorns). And hence the phrase I.N.R.I of the hermeticists, who translate it as: Igne Natura Renovatur Integra (Through the fire (of life) nature is reborn whole.)

The rose in the heart symbolizes the spiritual awakening of man, through purification, and reception of the divine presence in the center of the Being. Let us meditate with a rose opening in our chest, awakening the divine presence.

Rosy cross. Rosicrucian.

18th degree secrets dear brother.

May our roses bloom and may they be pollinated by the Spirit of the All mighty.

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