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Reveals how the art of memory is the origin of the Masonic method
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FOREWORD
The Influences Leading to the Art
by Francis Bardot
FOREWORD
The Art of Memory
The Origin of the Masonic Method
by Patrice Corbin
INTRODUCTION
The Night of Origins
CHAPTER ONE
The Temple of Images
From Operative to Speculative Freemasonry
CHAPTER TWO
The Evolution of the Art of Memory
CHAPTER THREE
From the Decline of the Image to the Advent of the Letter
Gutenberg’s Victory
CHAPTER FOUR
The Mason Word as Survival and Renewal of the Ancient Art of Memory
CHAPTER FIVE
The Meeting of Conceptual Thought and Analogical Thought
APPENDIX A
Hieroglyphs of Memory
Emergence and Transformation of a Hieroglyphic Script in the Arts of Memory during the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
by Claudie Balavoine
APPENDIX B
The Ancient Sources of Initiatic Transmission in Freemasonry
The Royal Art and the Classical Art of Memory
by Charles B. Jameux
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Charles B. Jameux was Grand Chancellor of Foreign Relations of the Grand Lodge of France and the chief editor of the Masonic Journal of the Grand Lodge of France, Initiatory Perspectives, from 1998 to 2001. He is currently the director of the Living Stone collection for the French publisher Dervy (Tredaniel Group). He lives in France.
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Reveals how the art of memory is the origin of the Masonic method
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“Memory Palaces and Masonic Lodges is a masterpiece of research on two topics: the art of memory and the lost Word of Freemasonry. Jameux’s examination of Bruno’s theories of the memory palace as a means to accessing celestial realms, coupled with how its application transforms Masonic trestle boards and temples into veritable talismans, is indispensable to understanding the history and practice of the transmission of knowledge in all its forms. This is a book I was planning on writing. Now I do not have to. Jameux has done the job for each of us--now all we need to do is apply it!”
