Month: December 2021
The divine service of the Greeks
The ancient Hellenic religion βlived on the harmonious and reciprocal response of reality and of the divine will. The faith of the Greek man is in the cosmos, in the ordered rhythm of the stars; and the intertwining of their motions can only supervise the god Β». The Hellenic conception of the Sacred is in fact based on a dense network of mythical-historical-astrological correspondences, which allows the historian of religions to consider it under various aspects linked to each other: Theogony, esoteric history of the cosmos and human lineages, eschatology of the Mysteries, Hyperborean shamanism.
βDuneβ: an esoteric analysis. Cosmism and the latent powers of man
Behind the universe of Dune, a parallel reality is hidden, which has its roots in the myths, symbolism and archetypes of our world. Here we will analyze the hidden meanings in Frank Herbert's epic, bringing to light the links with the Eastern and Western esoteric traditions, which make Dune, a real initiatory novel.
βCarcosa unveiledβ: conference in Florence for the Eumeswil Association
Florentine presentation for "Carcosa unveiled. Notes for an esoteric reading of True Detectiveβ(Mimesis Edizioni, 2021) by Marco Maculotti, Friday 17 December starting at 18:00.
Live video: "Nymph in the labyrinth". Meeting with Susanna Mati
On Wednesday 15 December our live news returns AXIS mundi TV. Our guest this week will be Susanna Mati, with whom we will have the opportunity to dissect the essay of which she is the author "Nymph in the labyrinth: epiphanies of a divinity on the run", originally published in 2006 for Moretti & Vitali and just reprinted.
Around the sacred spatiality
The sacredness of temenos and the suspension of time alone give that order of meaning to the initiates and their living outside the temple itself, directing and decontextualizing them into something super-temporal and not linked to the contingent. Meditations around sacred spatiality: on the divine as center and circumference, the analogy between temple and heart, the symbolism of the sacred mountain and the omega point, the act of building and ordering as an imitatio of.
PDF / SLIDES: Parallelisms between Dante's infrworlds and the Indo-Buddhist and shamanic tradition of Asia
We make available for download the slides we used in the two conferences on Dante and the inframondi in the oriental tradition - that of yesterday for UniTreEdu and that of today at the General States of Psychedelia in Italy 2021. The notes are based on our essay with the same title forthcoming in the annual register of the magazine Β«ARTHOSΒ», n. 30 / year 2021.
The Cup, the Crown and the Wheel
The crown is not only overflowing power, it is also being in the center, the hollow axis in the middle of the wheel movement. And this axis is hollow, it is an empty center, like that of the cup: a mighty void. The center is the union of emptiness and luminosity, of movement and stillness, of the circumference and of the point at its center, rotates and hubs together: a paradoxical encounter, impossible for common reason, a coincidence of opposites that makes your head spin.
