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What is Universal masonry and what role does the York Rite play in relation to other forms of

rituality in today's panorama of the Italian obediences?

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Universal Freemasonry is a communion of initiates that unites

within a sacred path. the two essences of Man: the spiritual

essence with the material essence, daily. It is the synthesis of

representation of the Sephirotic Tree, a way that is therefore

not modern but ancient and of great Wisdom. A Gnostic way of
knowledge in which the value and centrality of man is exalted

through the instrument of the “word” as a synthesis of

transformation of thought and action. It is unfortunately a

minority path - if we evaluate it on numbers - it is a

fundamental path - if we measure it on values-because the
strength of Freemasonry is in the testimony and in the capacity

it has.

To be able to read, describe, devise in an unusual way what

happens in the social consortium. Masonry works for the good of

Man and mankind. What do we mean for the good of man and

humanity? The first good of man is freedom. This aspect is
combined not only as a value but also as a force to make it free

from its material need. The work is dignity, the choice possible

to say in my new book that will be released in September, is

"Masters without Aprons." The York Rite is a rite of perfection

of the Masters of The Grand Orient of Italy and represents the

most widespread and numerous ritual body in the World. It is a
ritual that has only one degree: The Master of the Royal Arch.

Inside it has other rooms that complement the path of Initiatic

knowledge which are Cryptic Masonry and Templar Freemasonry.

This aspect, that of the Master of the Royal Arch, can pass

underlines, actually testifies to the other element of the

Masonic way: Equality between men and respect for the nature of
man i.e. free will. The possibility then through the work of

being free among the equals and choose according to their own

feelings of doing, or not doing, in respect between the like, but

it is also, as mentioned in the American constitution, the right

to happiness. The happiness of Man is not the "joy" but the

quality with which he lives, in the context of Values, his life
and therefore the value of the environment, the value of beauty,

the value of nature, the value of research, the value of the

study, the value of morality.

When Man was created, he was placed at the centre of creation

fundamental element that through the "Word" became an event of
Knowledge, of the Distinction between "all that is nature" and

"all that is created".