Our Order’s Communication Policy and Email Address
The first step you should take to contact our Order in an effective way is to read Nicolas Laos’s book entitled Freemasonic Enlightenment in the Context of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). We communicate with media representatives (for interviews, press conferences, etc.) and with persons who come to us through referral. However, we do acknowledge and respect all who approach us. If you have read the aforementioned book and you want to contact us, then you are invited to submit a brief letter of intent to the following address: office@mprsmgrandlodge.it
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Here, you will find information about the
Autonomous Order of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry
(A∴O∴M∴P∴R∴S∴M∴)
By design, this website is a brief introduction referring you to the following book:
Nicolas Laos
Freemasonic Enlightenment in the Context
of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry
This book details a philosophical approach to Freemasonry and a Freemasonic approach to philosophy. It provides a system of esoteric work, interdisciplinary education, philosophical reflection, and social and political thought, and a method of understanding the reality of the world and the reality of consciousness. The actual state of Freemasonry is overtaken by inherent old conceptions, but this book looks to take Freemasonry from where it is to where it has never been. Thus, it exposes the Ritual of the “Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry,” composed by the author, and it explains the ethos, the structure, and the substantive content of the Autonomous Order of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry, of which the author is the Founder and Grand Master. The book expresses a keen longing for unifying, all-embracing knowledge and for instituting a Freemasonic system that creates, unites, and supports polymaths for the sake of knowledge and a better world order. As such, it presents a creative synthesis between Western esotericism, philosophy, psychoanalysis, sociology, political theory, political economy, mathematics, physics, and biology.
The contents of the aforementioned book consist of the following sections:
List of Illustrations – p. ix
List of Tables – p. xii
Acknowledgements – p. xiii
Foreword I: The Definition of Freemasonry by Professor Giuliano Di Bernardo – p. xvi
Foreword II: A Visionary Approach by Dr. Enrico Colombatto – p. xxi
Foreword III: A Perceptual Approach by Nia Foes – p. xxv
Foreword IV: Mythological and Mystical Aspects of Freemasonry by T.Allen Greenfield – p. xxxi
Foreword V: Movements of Esoteric Freemasonry in the Context of the Egyptian Rite
by Alexander Rybalka – p. xxxvi
Foreword VI: A Transformative Approach by Pierpaola Meledandri – p. xxxix
Foreword VII: The Dynamic Interpretation of the History of Freemasonry
by Slobodan Škrbić – p. xlii
Preface – p. xlvi
Frequent Abbreviations – p. lix
Chapter 1: The Philosophy of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry – p. 1
Chapter 2: Entered Apprentice of the M∴P∴R∴S∴M∴ – p. 113
Chapter 3: Fellow Craft of the M∴P∴R∴S∴M∴ – p. 241
Chapter 4: Master Mason of the M∴P∴R∴S∴M∴ – p. 302
Chapter 5: A Course of Mathematics and Natural Sciences for the Members of the
Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry – p. 352
Bibliography – p. 475
Publisher’s Link: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/pages/contact
Book's Link: https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-5275-9207-0
Dr. Nicolas Laos was born in Athens, Greece, on 2 July 1974, he was intellectually masculinized in the context of America’s liberal education system (he matriculated at the University of La Verne, California, in 1992), and he expanded his intellectual horizons in several scholarly and business institutions around the world. He is rigorously educated and internationally published in mathematics, philosophy, political economy, and social psychology. His way of thinking is characterized by a peculiar grand synthesis of rationalism (Descartes, Kant, Bachelard, etc.), structuralism (Durkheim, Saussure, Lévi-Strauss, etc.), the “school” of hermeneutics (Gadamer), Marxism–Leninism, Alexander Bogdanov’s universal science of organization (“Tektology”), Anatoly Lunacharsky’s theory of “God-Building,” mathematical modelling, Norbert Wiener’s and Aksel Berg’s cybernetics, and the psychoanalytical “schools” of S. Freud, J. Lacan, and E. Fromm. On the basis of the aforementioned synthesis, Dr. Laos has articulated the theory of the “dialectic of rational dynamicity” as well as the theory of “critical rational socialism” (a morally aristocratic and scientifically rigorous variant of socialism). Moreover, he has an extensive international background in Freemasonry and, generally, Western esotericism. He is the creator of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry (in Greek, “Νεωτερικός και Τελεσιουργικός Τύπος του Συμβολικού Τεκτονισμού”). At the beginning of his book Freemasonic Enlightenment in the Context of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry, he explains how his scholarly and Freemasonic qualifications gave him courage and the substantive and formal legitimacy to undertake the bold intellectual project that is the subject of this book.
Dr. Nicolas Laos has created a new Freemasonry ― namely, the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry ― guided by his systematic, philosophical and scientific engagement with fundamental questions such as: What is being, and what is the reason of being? How can we study the whole as a whole? How does the cosmos unfold? What are the dynamics of thought, and which are the fundamental laws of thought? He is proud to be known to his peers and interested parties as the founder of “Scientific Freemasonry” and as a person who experiences thinking as a supreme source of joy. The Autonomous Order of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry is a philosophical and scientific fraternity that, in addition to studying and defending modernity, seeks to develop modernity further and lead it to its logical conclusion and integration, in accordance with this Order’s research program. For more information, you may download “A Note on Masonic Esotericism” (PDF) by clicking here, and you may contact our Order.
Our Order’s Communication Policy and Email Address
The first step you should take to contact our Order in an effective way is to read Nicolas Laos’s book entitled Freemasonic Enlightenment in the Context of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry (Cambridge Scholars Publishing). We communicate with media representatives (for interviews, press conferences, etc.) and with persons who come to us through referral. However, we do acknowledge and respect all who approach us. If you have read the aforementioned book and you want to contact us, then you are invited to submit a brief letter of intent to the following address:
- Membership Policy -
The Autonomous Order of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry offers two variants of membership: Full Membership and Squireship.
Full Membership
Procedures of joining the Autonomous Order of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry as a full member: Full membership is usually by invitation, requiring sponsoring by two existing members (a “Proposer” and a “Seconder”) and the approval of the corresponding Lodge’s Officers. Nonetheless, we are always willing to consider unsolicited applications for full membership by suitably qualified men and women. If you want to become a full member of the Autonomous Order of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry and you think that you are a suitable candidate, then, please, download the "Application form for full membership" (PDF) by clicking here, print it and complete all sections by hand. When you have your printed application form ready for submission, please, ask us (via the aforementioned email address) to tell you which postal address you should post your application form to (in your email, you should ask us for a postal address without sending your application form electronically; we consider application forms only in printed form sent to us by post).
After we receive your application form, you will be contacted within a short period with a confirmation of receipt of the application form and a projected date of the next Order meeting to decide if we shall take your application further. We hold meetings of this nature approximately monthly. If we decide to take your application further, then we shall put you in touch with two of our Order’s human resources officers, and, after approximately twelve months of mutual communication, if it is ultimately decided to accept your application, the date of your initiation into our Order will be set. Please, note that, in order to protect its ethos and internal rules and regulations, the Order runs a background check on every person who applies to join it as a full member; and, therefore, by submitting your full membership application form to the Order, you ipso facto authorize the latter to run a background check on you, to store your data, and communicate with you. However, before sending us your application, please, make sure that you understand and endorse Nicolas Laos’s book entitled Freemasonic Enlightenment in the Context of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry (originally published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2023).
Squireship
Whereas the full members of the Autonomous Order of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry are the Order’s Masonic Brothers and Sisters, and they are organized into Masonic Lodges, the squires of the Autonomous Order of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry are not considered as Masonic Brothers or Sisters of the Order, but they are considered as external collaborators, students, and supporters of the Order. The squires of the Autonomous Order of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry are organized into a special esoteric institution called the Lyceum of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry, and, upon admission to it, they receive a special ID Card and a special lapel pin. The Lyceum of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry operates mainly as an international reading club and discussion forum, and its members receive a monthly philosophical, scientific, and political newsletter issued by the Office of the Order’s Grand Secretary. The curriculum of the Lyceum of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry is personally guided and consists of study, psychological projects, correspondence course work, and group work. Its studies center on philosophy, psychoanalysis, esotericism, mathematics-natural sciences, political theory, and political economy. If you want to become a squire of the Autonomous Order of the Modern and Perfecting Rite of Symbolic Masonry, then, please, download the "Application form for squireship" (PDF) by clicking here, print it and complete all sections by hand. When you have your printed application form ready for submission, please, ask us (via the aforementioned email address) to tell you which postal address you should post your application form to (in your email, you should ask us for a postal address without sending your application form electronically; we consider application forms only in printed form sent to us by post).