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The Mythos and the Logos: Greek wisdom in the Platonic myths

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Knowing oneself and the world of ideas through myth, or, in other words, reaching the Logos through Mythos: this is the main idea that supports Greek wisdom, as Plato has divinely illustrated in his works. The myth of the cave, the myth of Er, that of the charioteer and of Eros show us that in what we call "reality" nothing is certain, everything is in constant motion: the truth lies outside the fire, beyond out of the cave and of the mind itself, therefore in the world of ideas, which Plato calls "hyperuranium"; that is, "beyond the sky".

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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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"Ancient hypocrisy" and "modern hypocrisy": the mask and the "daimon"

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Nine glosses (and an appendix) on the intimate meaning of โ€œhypocrisyโ€, on the mask as a form of sacred discipline, on the personification of Yeats's โ€œdaimonโ€ or anti-self; and again on the Rite, on the โ€œFallโ€, and on Love.

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The "tapas", the libido and the victory over necessity

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The stages of the development of consciousness are contained in the myth, which leads to the conscious realization of the individual destiny, the cure as a re-actualization of the myth becomes mythbiography in a path that from Jung, through Neumann and Bernhard reaches Romano Mร dera.

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G. de Santillana: โ€œHistory to be rewrittenโ€. Reflections on "Ancient Fate" and "Modern Affliction"

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(image: Gilbert Bayes, ananke, sculpture)

Extract from the essay by Giorgio de Santillana ยซHistory to rewrite", Written in 1968 and published the following year by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, later (1985) translated and published in Italy by Adelphi in the collection of writings entitled"Ancient fate and modern fateยป.

Preface and notes by Marco Maculotti. Our italics.

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Cyclic time and its mythological meaning: the precession of the equinoxes and the tetramorph

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di Andrew Casella

It will certainly not go unnoticed by those who are at least a little accustomed to sacred science, a Christian symbol that has always stood out on the facades of churches, adorns manuscripts and is even found on a tarot blade: the tetramorph. This symbol draws its origin from the famous vision of Ezekiel (Ez. 1, 4-28) which St. John later poured into his own Apocalypse. These are four figures that surround the throne of God: the first has the appearance of a lion, the second of a bull, the third of a man and the fourth of an eagle in flight (Ap. 4, 7). Traditionally, these strange figures (which the Apocalypse calls the "Living") are attributed a literary value: in fact, they are the four evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John. These figures, however, as mentioned, can be found (even more strangely, one might say) also on a tarot blade, and precisely the number XXI, which designates the world.

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