Illuminist Lodge

May all evil be bound. May the good, the beautiful, the One be victorious. May the world be filled with joy, blessings, and harmonious glory.

Regarding the symbol for sulphur: Rene Guenon in his essay Christ and The Heart In Ancient Trademarks writes, “Let us digress a moment to point out another parallel: the schematization of these figures gives a known Hermetic symbol, which is none other than the reversed position of alchemical sulphur.

We find here the inverted triangle, whose equivalence with the heart and the cup we have already noted. Isolated, this triangle is the alchemical sign of water, whereas the upright triangle with the point directed upward, is that of fire. Now among the different meanings ascribed to water in the most diverse traditions, the one that is of particular interest here is that of Grace and the regeneration effected by it in the one who recieves it. Let us recall in this respect baptismal water, the four fountains of fresh water of the Terrestrial Paradise, and also the water escaping from the Heart of Christ, inexhaustible source of Grace. Finally, and this also corroborates this explanation, the reversal of the symbol of sulphur signifies the descent of spiritual influence into the ‘world below’. that is, into the terrestrial human world: it is in other words the ‘celestial dew’ of which we have already spoken……”

Regarding the circle or wheel: Rene Guenon in his essay Studies in Freemasonry and The Compagnonnage writes, “Knowledge of the ‘lesser mysteries’, or of the laws of ‘becoming’, is acquired in traversing ‘the wheel of things’; but knowledge of the ‘greater mysteries’, being that of immutable principles, requires unmoving contemplation in the ‘great solitude’ at the fixed point which is the center of the wheel, the fixed point around which the manifested Universe revolves.”