The “Caucasian Yoga Manuscript” by Count Colonna Walewski: an esoteric and literary enigma (part I)

The "Book of the Dead" of the ancient Egyptians (part II)

Second part of the study on Egyptian Book of the Dead (follows from the first). A focus on the "solar monotheism" established by the pharaoh Akhenaten and on the probable contacts between the Egyptian solar cults and the Jewish religion, through the analysis of Egyptian and Judeo-Christian sources.

The "Book of the Dead" of the ancient Egyptians (part I)

The so-called "Book of the Dead" in ancient Egypt accompanied the sacrificial offerings of food for the happy outcome of the otherworldly path of the deceased's soul: the welcome in the "circle of the Gods", eternal life in the "Hotep fields" and possibility of "going out in the day", that is to return to see the living and nature in our world. Nevertheless, in addition to collecting ritual, magical and religious formulas for these ceremonies, the aforementioned papyri also seem to contain interesting parallels with the phenomena of "experience on the threshold of death" and "out-of-body experience", as well as formal and content analogies with other sacred traditions .

Hendaye's Cyclical Cross: a coded calendar?

The so-called "Cyclical Cross" is an enigmatic monument located in the Basque town of Hendaye, in the French Pyrenees Atlantiques. Its esoteric symbolism was analyzed in the XNUMXs by Fulcanelli, the "last of the Alchemists", who saw in the Latin inscription on the arms of the cross and in the bas-reliefs on its pedestal the revelation of the Four Ages of humanity and the prophecy of the cataclysm next future that will come to put an end to the deadly Iron Age.

“The Shining”: in the labyrinths of the psyche and time

From the careful analysis of Stephen King's novel (1977) and of the film counterpart by Stanley Kubrick (1980), readings emerge that we can define as "esoteric": the Overlook Hotel as a labyrinth / monster that swallows its occupants and as a space outside of time; the superimposition of the past with the present in a similar perspective to that of the so-called "Akashic memory"; the "shimmer" as a supernatural capacity to insert oneself into this flow outside of time and space; a conception of the United States of America as a single, huge Indian cemetery (and not only).

The humanism of the ancient Egyptians and its relevance (II)

In the two dimensions of Being for the ancient Egyptians, wnn (absolute existence) and ḫpr (the relative existence of individual beings), the spirit, the vital breath, ankh, acts, whose hieroglyph is the famous crux ansata; the other fundamental Egyptian cosmic principle was Maat, translatable as "Justice-Truth", "Order" or cosmic "Balance", as opposed to isft, chaos, disorder, degeneration.

The humanism of the ancient Egyptians and its relevance (I)

The examination of the hieroglyphs reveals to the reader interesting implications, sometimes assonances and possible linguistic roots common between different and distant civilizations, as well as the spiritual, psychological, socio-cultural coordinates on which the average man of ancient Egypt oriented his decisions, the his relationship with himself, with nature, with others and with the pharaoh, the way of understanding religion and death.