Jakob Böhme – 𝐀𝐗𝐈𝐒 ֎ 𝐌𝐔𝐍𝐃𝐈

Auras and inner lights

Published on: December 17 2019 Last updated on: December 18 2019 Written by: Alexander Gabetta Categorized into: Anthropology, Philosophy, Psychology, History, History of Religions

Since the perception of a light characterizes the apparition of the divine, the luminous has always been associated with the numinous. The great dilemma that Walter Benjamin proposes is whether the visual impression is determined exclusively by the biology of the human eye or is also characterized by cultural and historical specificities. This contribution seeks to reconstruct how the experience of light in the West has changed over the centuries in intensity and suddenness and how its modes of manifestation have changed.

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The Second Half of the Paradise Age: Some Preliminary Concepts

Published on: April 7 2019 Last updated on: October 6, 2020 Written by: Michael Ruzzai Categorized into: Anthropology, Esotericism, Mito, History of Religions

In this new appointment of the "Manvantara" cycle we pass to analyze the passage between the first Great Year and the second and, consequently, the 'fall' in form and time and the separation of the two principles male (Adam) and female (Eve) .

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The Demiurge and the positive possibility: shaping

Published on: January 28 2019 Last updated on: October 6, 2020 Written by: Michael Ruzzai Categorized into: Anthropology, Esotericism, Mito, History of Religions

In this fifth appointment of the "Manvantara" cycle we are going to analyze, after the "negative way of the Demiurge" outlined in the previous article, the specular "positive way": the shaping of man or anthropogenesis.

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The Demiurge and the Negative Possibility: Fall

Published on: January 23 2019 Last updated on: October 6, 2020 Written by: Michael Ruzzai Categorized into: Anthropology, Esotericism, Mito, History of Religions

In this fourth appointment of the “Manvantara” cycle, we analyze the theme of the fall of being into matter, starting with its most famous symbol: the rebellion of Lucifer and the Fallen Angels.

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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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Luitzen EJ Brouwer: when Mathematics meets Mysticism

Published on: 12 September 2018 Last updated on: December 2 2020 Written by: Valentino Bellucci Categorized into: Characters, Science

The most advanced physics now gives reason to 'heretical' scientists like Brouwer, who in his work tried to reconcile mathematics and mysticism, leading him to perspectives that are nothing short of unusual, albeit influenced by the Pythagorean School of ancient Hellas and by oriental mystics.

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