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โ€œAt the wall of timeโ€: Ernst Jรผnger's prophecies about the Age of the Titans

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125 years ago, on March 29, 1895, Ernst Jรผnger, one of the most important and original thinkers of the short century, was born in Heidelberg. Sixty years have passed since the publication of his work "At the wall of time" which, reread today, can only amaze us at the punctuality of the prophecies it contains about the world to come, the world in which we find ourselves living today: from the figure paradigmatic of the "unknown soldier" to the advent of the so-called "mass-man", passing through the phenomenon of the "disappearance of borders" and finally coming to highlight the work of destruction of the natural rhythms in which man has always been inserted, accomplished by means of the "titanism" of Science.

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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 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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