Welcome to the blog of the United Grand Lodge of Memphis-Misraïm.
The Tablets of Horus explore themes dear to our tradition: esotericism, hermeticism, mysteries of East and West, great ancient myths, and everything that cracks the overly smooth surface of reality. Each month, this blog simply opens a door: offering points of reference, avenues for reflection, and insights to those who sense that reality is not limited to what we see and that there is another level of understanding the world.
Historical elements from a continental European perspective: Is the Memphis-Misraïm Rite regular or recognized within so-called "classical" Freemasonry? Ah, the famous Masonic regularity…
Born in early Greco-Egyptian Alexandria, the Corpus Hermeticum traveled from scriptoria to printing houses, from alchemists' workshops to humanist libraries.
There are books that do not seek to explain the world, but to teach us to look at it differently. Her-Bak belongs to this discreet category. In the form of a narrative
The terms ‘gnosis’ and ‘Gnosticism’ are often confused. This article distinguishes between Christian origins, ancient schools, and modern reinterpretations in order to understand each tradition in its own context.
From the loom to the fabrics of life, this article explores the world as a vast tapestry of warp and weft. Man himself appears as a weave within it.
In the depths of the longest night, the days begin to grow longer again. From Rome to Iran, from Scandinavia to China, the winter solstice celebrates victory.
In La Voie du Mage (The Way of the Mage), Arnaud Thuly restores magic's spiritual dimension: discipline, balance, self-knowledge. Essential reading for contemporary Hermeticism.
A figure from Greek mythology, Kairos refers to the right moment, the instant. Between Hermeticism, Gnosticism and Kabbalah, this text explores the breath of that moment that can change a life.
At the gates of Athens, the Eleusinian Mysteries offered initiates a symbolic journey: dying to the old in order to be reborn to the essential. A lesson that is still relevant today.
Science measures, tradition contemplates. When physics speaks of energy and vibration, Hermeticism responds with Light and unity. Two languages, one intuition.