Imago Templi by NAOS

"Imago Templi"
(Martinesiste/Saint-Martiniste-inspired art and music montage on YouTube, by NAOS)--

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'In France itself, which was the citadel of the new rationalism associated with Descartes and Wolf, the Eighteenth Century was witness to Martines De Pasqually, reviver of certain of the Traditional sciences and a Christian and a Freemason at the same time.'

Seyyed Hossein Nasr, 'Knowledge and the Sacred' 1981

'Imago Templi' by NAOS. This art video induces in the viewer who contemplates it in the right inward disposition, a symbolic-initiatory meditative vision: the Primordial Adam, Cosmic Anthropos as the universal Temple, the Archetypal Reau-Croix and Homme-Dieu emanated in his original station of Quaternary virtue at the Centre, the Terrestrial Paradise, preceding the Fall: the 'Mirific Name' of IHShVH is the Eternal Logos, the 'Word Made Flesh', the Divine Repairer and Regenerator of all Creation, the New Adam whose salvific Mysterium heralds the ultimate 'Restitution of All Things' in the Apocatastasis, the transfiguring vision of the Heavenly Paradise, the New Jerusalem, the Celestial City.

'This is the essential thing to bear in mind in our phenomenology of the Imago Templi: the intention to rebuild the Temple of Jerusalem was common both to the knights Templar and to the mystical brotherhoods, variously designated as the Brothers of the Thebaid desert, the Knights of the Morning and of Palestine...To both of them is ascribed the secret intention of establishing, with the new Temple, a gnostic Church of the Elect, a universal metropolis corresponding, perhaps, to "the secret dream of the oriental patriarchs"...J.B Willermoz professed a profound spirituality which was centred on the Imago Templi. In this sense his "instructions" are worthy of long study, as a textbook of Temple spirituality. They lead to an interiorization that could profitably be compared to Philo's...Proceeding along this way, we come to the meeting-point of Celtism and Templarism, of Celtic tradition or hierology and Hierosolymite tradition or hierology...Celtism and Templarism come together: in Wolfram's "Titurel", the Temple is conceived and the building of it directed by Merlin, the Celtic prophet, who was initiated by Joseph of Arimithea into the mystical measurements of the temple-archetype, the Temple of Solomon.'

Henry Corbin, 'Temple and Contemplation' chapter 5, 1980.

This video is dedicated to the true preceptors, compagnons and upholders of the Judaeo-Christian mysteriosophy and esoteric Chevalerie of the Temple: Henry Corbin, Jean Baptiste Willermoz, Martines de Pasqually.

'Tableau Universel: Map of the Visible and Invisible Worlds' which features in this video is available via 'Naos Fine Arts' as a limited edition gallery-quality print, 12 x 17 inches rendered in fine white line and delicate lettering upon a midnight blue ground on superior quality paper.

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