I- ARAB ECUMENICAL GRAND ORIENT

Ranging from the fact that some French and European Muslims attending Obediences and Masonic Lodges (Grand Orient de France, Grand Lodge of France, GLNF ...) (see below), which meets the wishes of Many of them, the Grand Master of the Grand Arab Orient Jean-Marc Aractingi developed a new ritual: the Ecumenical Rite (former name ROAR).

Knowing that the current rituals all refer to an inspiration only "JEWISH-CHRISTIAN", the new rite is based on former Muslim operative Freemasonry and the various rituals known, filling a gap (although fair Masonry religion and politics are at the gates of the lodge, in the secular world), in wanting to be more ecumenical in the ritual and symbols referring to the three great monotheistic religions, Judaic, Christian and Muslim.

You should know that:


- The ARAB ECUMENICAL GRAND ORIENT works to the Glory of the Great Architect of the Universe.
- The Three Great Lights are placed on the altar of the Lodges: the Square, the Compass and the Book of the Sacred Law (which may be either the Old Testament or the Gospel according to Saint John or the Koran).
- Bonds of Masons are lent on these three Enlightenment. The choice of the Book of the Sacred Law is left to personal choice of an insider.
- The ARAB ECUMENICAL GRAND ORIENT is an Independent and Sovereign Masonic power, practicing Rite Ecumenical developed by Jean-Marc TIF Aractingi.

For those wishing to learn about Freemasonry according to the rite in which Freemasons who would hone their skills by working at Ecumenical Rite in France and soon in Europe, please send your CV cover letter picture (discretion assured) in:

info@grandorientarabe.org

Workshops: Paris Area: Paris

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III- NEW RITE DRAWN BY THE
TIF JEAN-MARC ARACTINGI
The Ecumenical Rite (former name ROAR)

Ranging from the fact that some French and European Muslims attending Obediences and Masonic Lodges (Grand Orient de France, Grand Lodge of France, GLNF ...) (see why below), and satisfying the wishes of many of them, the Grand Master of the Grand Arab Orient Jean-Marc Aractingi developed a new ritual: the Ecumenical Rite (former name ROAR).

A NEW RITE: The Ecumenical Rite (old naming, ROAR)

This rite is based on former Muslim operative Freemasonry and Ancient Accepted Scottish Rite (EBITDA), which is practiced by the majority of Freemasons. It responds to the wishes of many Freemasons and applicants to Freemasonry mainly those of Islam who want to work in "Lodges" otherwise than rites of Judeo-Christian inspiration.


Why French Muslims they are few in the Masonic lodges?

Whether the Grand Orient of France and the Grand Lodge of France or other French Obediences, there are few "Brothers" of Islam. There is, in our view, three main reasons is this:

The first relates to the idea that conveyed some time and inherited the 19th century to the time of the "Dreyfus Affair" which is the "Judeo-Masonic Conspiracy." This idea also supported by a certain group of people is to be attributed to Jews and Freemasons all the ills of our society: uncontrolled immigration, loss of moral values, delinquency etc. .. In this scheme, the Jew is the cause of moral delinquency by introducing into the political trend of "cosmopolitanism" and the Freemasons, in turn, hatched in the shadows of the boxes, a permanent conspiracy against the Republic.

The second is related to the creation of the State of Israel. There Freemasonry is accused of being Zionist with Jewish roots. The fundamentalist Muslims do not hesitate, moreover, to show it as anti-Islamic, saying that "an institution that celebrates Jewish and Zionist Judaism.

The third and main for us is the rituals practiced in the French lodges. Indeed remind of these rituals for most of them Bible stories, Talmud and Kabbalah. This led some to say that "Freemasonry is the child of Judaism." Indeed, the Hebrew biblical tradition and is very active in cells, and what does not fail to strike the new apprentice, is the abundance of Hebrew words and references to the Old Testament, for example, the character Hiram is from the Bible, the sets of boxes that have biblical evocations and the two pillars at the entrance of the lodge (Yakin and Boaz) are replicas of the columns of the temple of Solomon, etc. ... It is also the same biblical concerns over the "planks" (work) in the boxes. These works give rise, as we know, with subtle debates. It applies to the names of certain cells, which often have a biblical-sounding: "Brotherhood of Solomon," the Ark "," New Jerusalem "etc. .. All this comes from the influence of Protestant Pastor Anderson, the founder of the Constitution of modern Freemasonry. Anderson was fascinated by the Hebrew and sent its biblical references to Freemasonry. The taste of the symbol, the multiplicity of Hebrew words are all inherited characteristics of Protestantism and the influence of Judaism on the latter. As for the Christian influence, it also holds an important place in various rituals, especially in the senior ranks.

To fill a gap and attract candidates who want to work into boxes according to a new rite that is more ecumenical (referencing the three religions: Judaic, Christian and Muslim) Ecumenical Rite. brought more into the ritual, adding the practices of Freemasonry such as Eastern signs of recognition and ensuing years, the symbolic color of Islam, Prophet Mohammed's initiation Travel etc. ...

On July 15, 2010 we received a letter, which comforts us greatly to the creation of a Greater Arab East working at Universal ecumenical rite of TIF Jean-Marc Aractingi.
We have held with the consent of its author to reproduce in full:



 

Dear

 

To conduct the study in my candidacy as a mason in

Grand Arab Orient Universal, I thank you in advance for finding

My letter

 

Why become a Freemason?

 

My real motivation is done on a spiritual and personal. I do not say that

culture of my parents, I do not allow it. But I had a feeling, a

... need a query much deeper inside me.

 

Spiritually:

 

To believe in my beliefs and to advance the right and proper way without being judged by a

the third and legitimately.

 

Learning and knowing the cultures of the "Brothers" without prejudice and in this

humility.

 

Personal:

 

My goal is to get to know "self" so that I can

better progress in my personal life and professional everyday.

To undertake a personal search, a kind of introspection (I'm sorry

to write this because it is "selfish" of me to have this kind of reflection).

 

I want to find the "Brothers" of various denominations, professions, to

métisser our knowledge. Moving in fraternal love and mutual respect that.

 

The combination of the two plans, bring me a sound structure, and provide a

balm to my wounds from the past and to help rebuild and build my future. And

next day, my turn to tend to hand out to "other".

 

Why have targeted your entity G.O.A.U. ?

 

In all honesty, I must report to you the following facts:

 

A year ago, I had interviews with 3 "Brothers". Then I was

convened within the G.L.D.F. to respond to various issues under the banner.

After the interview, they admitted me, and I was and am very honored, but I

did not respond.

 

Why?

 

I was not ready to get involved. But the most striking and sad to say is that

the latter does not reflect my needs ... because of my Muslim

maybe? Where I had simply afraid of my integration! However,

feeling of unease settled there and I felt alone in the world.

 

Stronger, confident, I am submitting my application today in the Grand Orient

Arabic Universal.

 

I wish you a good reception and I remain at your disposal

you provide additional information about me.

 

Please accept Madam, my sincere and respectful greetings.

 

Mr. Djillali KANAN









1) The Office of Ecumenical Reflection on Rite

Outline

The layman who asks to be initiated into the mysteries of Freemasonry can imagine what to expect and the tests that it must overcome in order to receive the light? No, but his instinct suggests a "change", a "transmutation" which is preparing for his deepest. The path he has taken is that of initiation, from the Latin meaning Initiare start because it is an initiatory quest that it is undertaking. Why does he seek to be initiated? Perhaps his subconscious theme of most of its shares through a faint whisper that only he who listens with her heart can expect to hear, he showed the ultimate goal of "Rights": the PURIFICATION. Indeed, the Introduction is cleansing, purifying "Cosmic Man" that after the drama of the Edenic Fall, causing his own destruction, seeks to regenerate back to paradise perdu.L ideal for insider is to realize the interplay between the exoteric (the Shariyah in Islam) and the esoteric meaning not only the truth (the Haquiqa) but also the means to achieve it. All of these ways is called "Way" or "tariqa".

The first test that the layman will live to enter Freemasonry will be the firm's thinking, strange name that hides a practice much older than Freemasonry itself. The cabinet of reflection is in our view, one of the most important trials on the path of Initiation or tasawwuf in Islam, for in her womb that will "make some sort of foul up with the intellectual and moral to rid the mind of all that prevents light from reaching him "The firm uses the reflection of the universal language of symbolism, in order to live in layman's first test, which is that of the earth.

It is written somewhere in the Bible, "you're naked out of your mother's womb and naked you shall return in the belly of the earth. You carry nothing away, dying, you will not wash away your wealth with you, "and indeed, before the layman does not fit into the cabinet discussion, he was asked to dispose of his money and put all its objects metal.

Al Ghazali (m.1111) tells the heavenly experience of the Prophet Muhammad as saying:

"When I was carried to heaven, I entered Paradise. And in Paradise I saw a palace carved from a ruby red. I walked into this building. I live in a house made of a white pearl. I went into the house and I live in the center a light box with a lock of light. I said to Gabriel, who accompanied me: What is the safe and contained there? He answered: Cheri God, this chest contains a secret of the Most High that He does not entrust to those whom he loves. I say: Let me in so that lock. He says: I'm a slave commanded inquiry your God will allow me to open it. I asked that the Most High. Then a voice sent by the Almighty was heard saying: "Open to the one I love." And Gabriel opened the lock. I and looked in the trunk were:

     "The HUMILITY AND POVERTY".

Inside the cabinet discussion, profane discover several symbols referring to the death, then the applicant is asked to write his "philosophical testament" because at that moment he will die in his secular life, but before being reborn and live fully its second birth ("If something needs to be astonished by them, you wonder when you hear them say: Is it being turned into dust, then we become a new creation: Quran, The Thunder, XIII , 5), he must take stock and respond in writing to three questions:
What are the duties of man towards himself?
What are the duties of man towards God?
What are the duties of man toward humanity?

Description of the Office of Reflection: The various symbols and their meanings


1) The Office of Ecumenical Reflection in the Rite of TIF Jean-Marc Aractingi

In the Office of Ecumenical Rite reflection, we find the secular one, faced with many symbols and inscriptions that surround it. In the dark as the light source with a single candle which flickers slowly and is subtle and light which symbolizes the fire "philosophy" behind all the changes. His knowledge and his "revelation" allowed by Hermetic Middle Ages to the transmutation of elements, principle of alchemy.
a subtle fire "philosophical and divine"; transformer and generator of the mind.
This symbol is found among the Druze: The Flame subtle and light which occupies the highest tip of the flame, which is red and blue melee, which sometimes appears and sometimes disappears is the emblem of the Intelligence and is associated with Hamza (A founder of Ministers and the UNITAR or Druze).
* This symbol among the Druze is developed more fully in the ritual Oecuménique.Nous have given here a quick overview.
Other symbols are also present, we mention here only a few such as the ternary alchemy as it is essential to the formation of alchemical philosopher's stone. Salt, Sulphur and Mercury together express the true balance, which the layman should aim to regenerate.
Sulphur represents the energy expansive, active male and Mercury Energy is attractive, feminine passive principle, while the salt resulting from the action of sulfur on Mercury, is neutral, the result of two principles, it is So balancing agent.
Among the Sufis Red Sulphur ("Kibris Ahmar") is a very high level of play.
Salt is the symbol of hospitality ..........
As the inscription "Visita Interior Terrae, Rectificando Invenies Occultum lapidum" that the layman will see face to him and invited him on a journey deep inside himself all these symbols and riddles are as we said previously developed largely in the ecumenical rite.
For this, we invite you to continue our spiritual journey with us assuming the Grand Arab Orient Universal.

2) Initiation





Overview of initiation among Ismailis (branch of Islam) and that strangely resembles the one we know as Freemasonry, as it was described in the mid-eleventh century!

This episode of the Office of reflection which is subsequent to the initiation is well known by Hassan Sabbah, the Lord of Alamut, or Mountain ", the" Chief "Hachachins" or "Assassins".

Below is a short passage from the Introduction of the latter (which is also developed at length in the ritual):

After passing through the Cabinet of Reflection ", a man wearing a white robe opened the door and asked Hassan to follow. It crosses lanes barely lit. Arriving in front of a large door, the guide ordered him to wait and hit three times. Deaf footsteps approaching and the door opens on a character wearing a costume similar to those of the ancient Persians. He beckoned Hassan to enter.
No sooner did he do that not just some distant voice and grave fills the room.
"Hassan Sabbah's son, where are you?
- Looking for the Light
Hassan gradually discovers that surrounds
Seated on benches along the walls of the room, silhouettes gradually emerging from the shadows. Hassan now sees many men quite clearly.
Before him on a throne stands a man who raises his arms towards Hassan and talk to him in these terms:
"Do not worry, you already belong to our fraternity. We are your brothers here.
..................!!!!!

Words and signs of recognition will be disclosed to the initiate, in addition to signs that are disclosed in welcoming the person by the hand, saluted Freemasonry East, which is by far discretely without shaking hands with the Brother person or by pressure but by signs such as "I" for which the index tends vertically arranging for the other noticing this sign, if so, the other responds by stretching .....!!


For more information, you must belong to the Grand Arab Orient Universal (see page admission). According Trimegiste Hermes: "What is High is like what is below," = which applies to material bodies applied to the body spiritual transmutation metal corresponded roughly to the spiritual transmutation; Fire coarse was a reflection



Mixed Lodges in France working at the Ecumenical Rite: Judeo-Christian-Muslim
(From January 2011)

For those wishing to learn about Freemasonry according to the rite in which Freemasons who would hone their skills by working at Ecumenical Rite in France and soon in Europe, please send your CV + photo + letter motivation (discretion assured) to:

info@grandorientarabe.org

Workshops: Paris Area: Paris

              PACA

              Languedoc


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