Month: December 2018

The "revival" of Astrology in the 900s according to Eliade, Jรผnger and Santillana

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The revival of the astrological discipline in the last century has aroused the attention of some of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, who analyzed the phenomenon philosophically and from a mythical-traditional point of view: from Ernst Jรผnger to Mircea Eliade, up to the "Fatalism" by Giorgio de Santillana.

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J. Evola: "Dionysus and the Way of the Left Hand"

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Evola considers Nietzsche's Dionysus in relation to the so-called "Way of the Left Hand", an initiatory path that involves "the courage to tear off the veils and masks with which Apollo hides the original reality, to transcend forms to get in touch with the elementary nature of a world in which good and evil, divine and human, rational and irrational, just and unjust no longer have any meaning ยป.

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The Pole, the incorporation, the Androgyne

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The mythical traditions from all over the world speak of an auroral golden age in which Man lived "in the company of the gods": this can perhaps be related to creation "in the image and likeness of God" and to tradition of the Platonic primordial Androgynous, homologue of the kabbalistic Adam Kadmon?

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Interview with Giuseppe Lippi: "The fantastic is the exception, not the rule"

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Following the recent death of Giuseppe Lippi, which took place on Saturday 15 December, we want to share this interview released a few years ago to Andrea Scarabelli for the Antarรจs magazine, focused on the work of HP Lovecraft and on the role and importance of the Imaginary of the Fantastic in today's world. Our heartfelt thanks go to Lippi for everything he has done.

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The lonely path of cinnabar

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"Misunderstood by friends and enemies, he fought alone against the modern world": this obituary to Julius Evola highlights the 'Promethean-Luciferian' daimon that accompanied him throughout his entire earthly journey, making him a unique thinker in the panorama of ' 900, as clearly emerges from his most autobiographical work, "The journey of the cinnabar", recently reprinted by Edizioni Mediterranee.

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The cyclopean ruins of Nan Madol in Pohnpei, in the Caroline Islands

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The archaeological enigma of the "ghost site" in the archipelago of Micronesia, made up of about 100 small artificial islets connected to each other by a network of canals, has bewitched "mystery investigators" over the centuries, from Irish sailor James O'Connell to Colonel James Churchward, to neuropsychiatrist Oliver Sacks.

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Astronomy and Mathematics in Ancient India: The Insights of Brahmagupta and Bhฤskara Acฤrya

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Centuries before Galileo and Newton some Indian scholars such as Brahmagupta and Bhฤskara Acฤrya, heirs of the millenary knowledge of the Vedas,ย they had already theorized the heliocentric model and the force of gravity; and again, calculus, second degree equations and the number zero.

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The Sacred Wood of Bomarzo: an initiatory journey

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Visiting the "Parco dei Mostri" of Bomarzo, conceived by Pier Francesco Orsini in memory of his late wife Giulia Farnese and created by Pirro Ligorio, is equivalent to making a real metaphysical journey, stimulated by the numerous hermetic-alchemical suggestions, in the abysses of the human interiority.

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