Next Wednesday 18 January, starting at 21:30, we will present the second paperback of our series on our YouTube channel "HΓ¨speros: European Traditions & Mythsβ, of which we opened presales at the Winter Solstice and which will be available from February: The time Machine. Essay on Archaic Cosmotheology by Andrea Casella.
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ABSTRACT
Since prehistoric times, man has been responsible for reading time, the soul of the world. But there is no knowledge of time without a vision of the sky. The vision of the sky, and in particular of the night sky, the starry Uranus of Orphism, placed before man the limited horizon of his own transience. And yet, human life seemed to be inscribed in a coherent design of a higher order, while remaining nothing but a fragment of the apparent "suffering" of being. Those terrestrial images that the myths have handed down to us had their origin in the sky. There is a common thread that unites the submersion of Atlantis, the fall of Phaeton, the description of Tartarus and the territorial divisions of the polis recommended by Plato. Places of heavenly rest, flights of doves, wanderings in labyrinths are silent images for us, or at best worthy of being relegated to the world of fantasy, but the fact is that they constitute the translation on a figurative level of the rhythm, of the great musikΓ© of the universe, which as such only the disembodied soul can receive. But there is no metaphysics, not yet. Before the dramatic rift between the cosmos and the extra-cosmic world, before the planet Saturn was transformed into the transcendent God, even the soul of man had to behave according to the great soul of the world. The inexorable fate of the soul was to return, by order of Ananke, to the notes of the celestial circles. Because, says Plato, reincarnated souls fall back to earth in the form of stars.
PRE-SALES OPEN: https://axismundi.blog/prodotto/axs002-andrea-casella-la-macchina-del-tempo-saggio-sulla-cosmoteologia-arcaica/
SHIPPING FROM FEBRUARY
ANDREW BOX
Born in Vallo della Lucania (SA) on 2 September 1986. He began as a scholar of esotericism, with a particular fondness for Gnosticism. In this period he writes articles for ABRAXAS, an online magazine dedicated to the analysis and dissemination of historical Gnostic thought. His writings of the period are "Albert Caraco" and "Plotinus: against the Gnostics". He then approaches the study of ancient cosmology and classical mythology, advocating a cosmotheological and astral reading of myths. He has published several articles for the traditional studies journals AXIS MUNDI and ATRIUM, including "Saturn, the Black Sun of the primordial" and "Saturn, metronome of the archaic cosmos". He has also published literary articles for AXIS MUNDI, dedicated to authors dear to him: βEdgar Allan Poe and the critique of reality in humorous farcesβ, βThe house on the abyss, by William Hope Hodgsonβ and βIn the beginning was the Word: the fanta-gnosis of Philip K. Dick in Ubikβ. He also proposed a 'saturnising' reading of Sauron, the famous Tolkienian antagonist, in an article entitled "Sauron, the Demiurge of Middle-earth". He also manages a Facebook group, which currently has about 2500 members, entitled "Cosmology, symbolism and tradition", dedicated precisely to cosmology, the cosmotheological interpretation of mythology and traditional symbolism.
ARTICLES BY ANDREA CASELLA
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ASTROTHEOLOGICAL THEME:
β Cyclic time and its mythological meaning: the precession of the equinoxes and the tetramorph http://axismundi.blog/2017/02/05/il-tempo-ciclico-e-il-suo-significato-mitologico-la-precessione-degli-equinozi-e-il-tetramorfo/
β Star symbolism and solar symbolism http://axismundi.blog/2017/04/01/simbolismo-stellare-e-simbolismo-solare/
β From Cybele to Demeter, the different faces of Mother Earth, or the ecliptic http://axismundi.blog/2020/03/24/da-cibele-a-demetra-i-diversi-volti-della-madre-terra-ovvero-delleclittica/
β Saturn, the Black Sun of the primordial http://axismundi.blog/2018/03/03/saturno-il-sole-nero-dei-primordi/
β The astronomical significance of the Golden Age: Astrea and the "fall" of Phaeton http://axismundi.blog/2017/05/30/il-significato-astronomico-delleta-delloro-astrea-e-la-caduta-di-fetonte/
β The βHeavenly Fireβ: Kronos, Phaeton, Prometheus http://axismundi.blog/2017/06/09/il-fuoco-celeste-kronos-fetonte-prometeo/
β A science in tatters: survivals of the doctrines of cyclical time from the Timaeus to the Apocalypse http://axismundi.blog/2017/03/04/una-scienza-a-brandelli-sopravvivenze-delle-dottrine-del-tempo-ciclico-dal-timeo-allapocalisse/
β Astrological considerations on the Gospel: a soteriology on a solar basis http://axismundi.blog/2017/11/08/considerazioni-astrologiche-sul-vangelo-una-soteriologia-su-base-solare/
β Astrological considerations on the Gospel: the Passion and the Resurrection http://axismundi.blog/2017/12/20/considerazioni-astrologiche-sul-vangelo-la-passione-e-la-resurrezione/
β The cosmological meaning of the laughter of the gods: on the myth of BaubΓ² and its surroundings https://axismundi.blog/2021/05/11/il-significato-cosmologico-del-riso-degli-dei-sul-mito-di-baubo-e-dintorni/
