2016
The year when I was initiated in masonry. A whole new world of symbols and spirituality opened in front of me and it was meant to stigmatize me.
At 2021 I have started to produce handmade aprons for brothers all around the world. I consider that they are pieces of high aesthetics, while they also serve ritual needs. A new passion was incubated via masonry; this is the philosophy.
2021 I sat on entry exams for the Department of Philosophy in Philosophic Faculty of Ioannina University; hence, once more I returned to studying. I am especially attracted to the scientific field of semiotics.
I can still remember my day of initiation as if it were today. The closest lodge to me is on a 45-minute distance away by car. At first, the day of my initiation was set. My trip towards the near city was full of labyrinthine thoughts and torturous questions, while also something deeper urged me towards my staying on this path. Reaching the neighboring city, I informed that I had arrived and from then on I got into a waiting process of about 4 hours. As the time passed, my thoughts became high and unapproachable walls. My strong will for mental enlightenment kept me still in my position. I was in a busy city, yet, I felt totally alone. I had already began to feel my initiation process. After a long waiting process, I was given the address of the lodge, where the initiation was about to take place.
The symbols overwhelmed me. The requiem of Mozart playing in the space, signaled the mystagogy of the atmosphere, while it also prepared a death and a birth which I had to experience. I had to sacrifice my old self and get reborn. Then some lyrics came into my mind; the ones form Dante Aligieris’ first song of Inferno: “In the middle of my life path, in a dark forest I found myself because I had lost the correct path”. Then I put all my hope and my life to my Tester, who as another Virgilio would take me to the occult path.
This is how I was initiated in the mysteries of the Saint John lodge which stills functions under the typical of the Ancient Proven Scottish type.
I still feel proud of my choice and I keep on supporting that the masonry that I experienced is the best possible thing that has ever occurred to me, except for my family and my studies.
Today, I belong to the crew of a historic lodge with remarkable brothers who work under the protection of the Great lodge of Greece and it is the “Etaireia ton Filikon” n. 116 from East Athens. Today my age is 33 years old and I own the title of “Prince Rosicrucian, Knight of the Eagle and the Pelican”. The experience I have gained so far from my amazing trip is huge and even higher than my expectations. I feel surrounded by a very familiar environment with beloved people. I have had strong bonding with my brothers. I feel fulfilled.
I can still remember my day of initiation as if it were today. The closest lodge to me is on a 45-minute distance away by car. At first, the day of my initiation was set. My trip towards the near city was full of labyrinthine thoughts and torturous questions, while also something deeper urged me towards my staying on this path. Reaching the neighboring city, I informed that I had arrived and from then on I got into a waiting process of about 4 hours. As the time passed, my thoughts became high and unapproachable walls. My strong will for mental enlightenment kept me still in my position. I was in a busy city, yet, I felt totally alone. I had already began to feel my initiation process. After a long waiting process, I was given the address of the lodge, where the initiation was about to take place.
The symbols overwhelmed me. The requiem of Mozart playing in the space, signaled the mystagogy of the atmosphere, while it also prepared a death and a birth which I had to experience.
I had to sacrifice my old self and get reborn.
Then some lyrics came into my mind; the ones form Dante Aligieris’ first song of Inferno:
“In the middle of my life path, in a dark forest I found myself because I had lost the correct path”. Then I put all my hope and my life to my Tester, who as another Virgilio would take me to the occult path.
This is how I was initiated in the mysteries of the Saint John lodge which stills functions under the typical of the Ancient Proven Scottish type.
I still feel proud of my choice and I keep on supporting that the masonry that I experienced is the best possible thing that has ever occurred to me, except for my family and my studies.
Today, I belong to the crew of a historic lodge with remarkable brothers who work under the protection of the Great lodge of Greece and it is the “Etaireia ton Filikon” n. 116 from East Athens. Today my age is 33 years old and I own the title of “Prince Rosicrucian, Knight of the Eagle and the Pelican”. The experience I have gained so far from my amazing trip is huge and even higher than my expectations. I feel surrounded by a very familiar environment with beloved people. I have had strong bonding with my brothers. I feel fulfilled.
I am very delighted that my work has promoted these humanistic values, which are safeguarded through masonry.
I feel that I have the duty to contribute to the improvement of our society to the biggest possible extent I am able to.
I have the sense that the instruments of masonry are we ourselves, all the brothers who serve the great plan of the Architect of the Universe.
Our only duty is to be quick, alert, composed, equipped and willing to greatest possible degree.
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