Tag: Adam

Considerations on the question of hierolanguage in the Middle Ages (I)

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The true origin of verbal language is a mystery that is lost in the mists of the most remote past of mankind. This universal and transversal theme (which is linked to that of the arcane power of the word and in particular the evocation of Divine Names) in Western civilization has been the subject of speculative and theological reflection since the times of Greek philosophy, maintaining its centrality also in the philosophical culture of the Christian Middle Ages.

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North-South: the first human dichotomy and the separation of the southern branch

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Peoples almost totally devoid of material techniques, such as Pygmies and Bushmen, retain a background of rather complex religious structures that have not passed through the stage of an "original totemism", presupposed by a certain cultural anthropology of an evolutionary setting as one of the obligatory stages. of a hypothetical progressive trend. Hence the hypothesis of a very ancient diffusion of these pygmoid populations, perhaps to be put in relation with the Old Testament figure of Lilith and with other mythical characters of the archaic traditions, such as Vamana, the fifth avatara of Vishnu, who significantly appears in the sacred iconography with the likeness of a dwarf.

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The pilgrimage to the subtle body: a little-big book by Annick de Souzenelle

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In "Va 'verso te", recently published in Italian by Edizioni Tlon, Gallican Catholicism, Alexandrian Gnosticism, Jewish Kabbalah, Greek myths and depth psychology converge, among other things. loci privileged incarnation of the eternal archetypes.

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The sexual bipolarization, the "feminine" and the advent of human corporeality

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In this new appointment of the cycle of articles β€œManvantara” we will investigate the cosmological-traditional meaning of the two sexes, as well as the modalities and consequences connected to their differentiation, with particular regard to the human level.

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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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The end of the primordial age and the "Fall of Man"

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Notes of a mythical-traditional nature on the esoteric history of humanity in the present Manvantara: from the Golden Age to the "Fall", from the "Sleep of Adam" to the "Original Sin", from the tripartition Adam-Eve-Lilith to the revolt of the Bear against the Boar.

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