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.

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 :-On the subject of formal Masonic toasts the format of these vary with the lodge but there is always a toast to the Queen and to The Grand Master followed by others which vary according to the ceremony. For instance when there is a new initiate he is toasted and often responds. In some lodges they sing the Initiates song. Masonic Toasts – The Loving Cup

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. Interact or examine over 60% of the items in game for a real immersive experience. Can you find everything within the world?The final shot of Parra’s Molina, encompassing what he does best, sums up the film perfectly. Is The Initiated (Los Iniciados) worth watching? Historically, The Initiates of the Flame has had two distinct prior lives—this edition is its third. As noted, Hall published his concise, evocative volume in 1922, six years before his “Great Book,” The Secret Teachings of All Ages. I see Initiates as the germination of that larger effort. 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 very old custom, but which still takes place in some lodges, even with the passing of the snuff. This is a ceremony handed down through the ages and not necessarily limited to initiations..It represents sharing, coupled with protection, which helps to reinforce the ancient Masonic bond. But everywhere, even in the rise and fall of nations, we see through the haze of materiality, justice; everywhere we see reward, not of man but of the invincible One, the eternal Flame.

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. 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? The Initiates of the Flame is not only Manly P. Hall’s literary debut but it is also a framing of the teacher’s philosophical approach to life, set down at an early, intellectually powerful, and even gestational phase—yet consistently held to throughout his career. Within symbol, the budding sage wrote, you discover not only an image of yourself but the continuum between your psyche and the cosmos. “As above, so below,” as the Hermetic dictum goes.