Henry Corbin – 𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐒 ֎ 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈

Esoteric and exoteric characteristics of the Occultation of the Mahdi in Shiite eschatology

Published on: November 4, 2023 Last updated on: November 4, 2023 Written by: Antonio Bonifacio Categorized into: Esotericism, Islam, History of Religions

Just as Herod two thousand years ago was desperately looking for a newborn baby who would be that future "king" who would deprive him of his temporal power, so the Herod of our times is also looking for a prodigious child destined to put an end to "history ”, who, once his advent has come, “will fill the Earth with harmony and justice as it is now filled with tyranny and violence”. The characters of this mysterious figure, the absolute fulcrum of faith in Iranian Islam expressed as the religion of the Expected, will be discussed briefly in this article.

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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 Pole, the incorporation, the Androgyne

Published on: December 20 2018 Last updated on: October 6, 2020 Written by: Michael Ruzzai Categorized into: Anthropology, Esotericism, Mito

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

Published on: June 15 2018 Last updated on: 20 September 2018 Written by: Daniele Capuano Categorized into: Anthropology, Philosophy, History of Religions

Nine glosses (and an appendix) on the intimate meaning of “hypocrisy”, on the mask as a form of sacred discipline, on the personification of Yeats's “daimon” or anti-self; and again on the Rite, on the “Fall”, and on Love.

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The myth of concealment in Eurasian traditions

Published on: May 8, 2018 Last updated on: December 2 2020 Written by: Daniel Perra Categorized into: Anthropology, Christianity, Esotericism, folklore, Islam, Mito, History of Religions

Brief excursus along the historical, philosophical and religious path through which the theme of the concealment of the divine in the great Eurasian space developed: a theme that once again demonstrates the primordial spiritual unity of this vast inner continent

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