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TS Eliot's "Devastated Land" and the Way of the Tarot

Published on: 28 September 2021 Last updated on: 28 September 2021 Written by: giobiga62 Categorized into: Esotericism, Poetry, Psychology

On the eve of the centenary of the publication of the Eliotian masterpiece, his devastated land today demonstrates all its relevance and evocative power. Narrative fragments that the reader composes and reassembles in a continuous game of investigation on himself and the world, just like those who walk the Way of the Tarot do: "With these fragments I have propped up my ruins".

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The Heart and the Vulva: a journey into common symbols

Published on: October 1, 2020 Last updated on: October 8, 2020 Written by: Luke Di Giacomo Categorized into: Anthropology, Christianity, Esotericism, History of Religions

This article aims to investigate the analogies between some of the preeminent symbolic and esoteric values of the heart and the female genital organ. In the different traditions of human history and, not infrequently, even in mere common language, the two organs, in fact, have often been associated with the same symbolic representations, such as those of the triangle with the apex down, the vase and the cave. Representative communities, these, which cannot but intuitively refer to a common area of meanings.

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Blood Metaphysics

Published on: March 18 2020 Last updated on: November 11, 2020 Written by: Robert Eusebius Categorized into: Anthropology, Christianity, Esotericism, folklore, Mito, History, History of Religions

Blood has always been considered, in the history of ideas, the vector of a powerful magical force and the vehicle of a complex and varied symbolism, starting with the rock paintings dating back to the Paleolithic to reach the three "book" religions (Christianity, Islam, Judaism), passing through the cosmogonic myths of ancient traditions (Babylonian, Hindu, Norse, etc.), obviously without neglecting its use in traditional oriental medicine and its sacrificial value within ceremonial practices.

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Uttara Kuru, the Boreal Paradise in Indian cosmography and art

Published on: July 3 2019 Last updated on: 14 September 2020 Written by: Marco Maculotti Categorized into: Esotericism, Mito, History of Religions

Giuseppe Acerbi examines the theme of the Boreal Paradise in the Hindu tradition, framing it in the doctrine of cosmic cycles and highlighting its correspondences with the Hesiodic and Platonic tradition, finally analyzing the symbolisms that are found in the artistic representations of this locus amoenus.

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The Green Ray

Published on: June 24 2019 Last updated on: June 25 2019 Written by: Alexander Gabetta Categorized into: Esotericism, Italian Literature, Psychology, History of Religions

If The Green Ray enjoys a certain fame following the cinematic success of Eric Rohmer's film of the same name, less known are other appearances, both literary and esoteric, of the light that returns hope and confirmations to those who dare to go. over after losing course and landmarks.

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The apocalyptic humor of Josef K., the anti-Parsifal

Published on: November 7, 2018 Last updated on: November 7, 2018 Written by: Daniele Capuano Categorized into: Anthropology, Esotericism, Philosophy, Italian Literature

The parody does not destroy the chivalrous tale, it confirms it by overturning it: Kafka was the knight of the destructive absolute and at the same time of the irony that damn and save.

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