I worked on my first translation from Il Mistero dell’Amor Platonico in a period I meant to translate only the part strictly concerning the Eleusinian Mysteries, [Read more…] about Rossetti and the Mystery of Platonic Love. Part 1 Corrected
Immortality-Palingenesis-Imaginary Universe
Hans Memling’s Altarpiece with Boar and January 17
Is the presence of St Anthony the Abbot enough to hint at the date of January 17 in the scene? And why Hans Memling turns the saint’s pet pig into a bristly boar? [Read more…] about Hans Memling’s Altarpiece with Boar and January 17
Testamentum Fraternitatis Roseae et Aureae Crucis. Part 6
Neither to be taken literally nor to be rejected as gruesome and foolish, these parts are to be thoroughly studied in the quest of the Nosce Te Ipsum concept in Alchemy. [Read more…] about Testamentum Fraternitatis Roseae et Aureae Crucis. Part 6
Testamentum Fraternitatis Roseae et Aureae Crucis. Part 2
In this first operative chapter we grab the meaning of Know Yourself motto and deep the use of parts of oneself to prepare the Mysterium Magnum. [Read more…] about Testamentum Fraternitatis Roseae et Aureae Crucis. Part 2
Testamentum Fraternitatis Roseae et Aureae Crucis. Part 1
Testamentum or coded biblical preface, constitution and secret operations of a Roseae et Aureae Crucis brotherhood according to a german manuscript. [Read more…] about Testamentum Fraternitatis Roseae et Aureae Crucis. Part 1
Elias Ashmole and the Prophetic Red Stone
A greedily curious man with intriguing statements, though not an alchemist, Elias Ashmole presents a Philosophers Stone aspect we are not used to read. [Read more…] about Elias Ashmole and the Prophetic Red Stone
Louis de Broglie and the Memory of an Immortal Particle
Electrons never die. Their life time draw on dimensions we seem to be denied. Can electrons behave as if they had consciousness and memory? [Read more…] about Louis de Broglie and the Memory of an Immortal Particle
The Last Lady of Rennes
The sense of an eighteenth century retiring, yet combative, noblewoman to not die with her secrets: a portrait of Elisabeth d’Hautpoul, Lady of Rennes. [Read more…] about The Last Lady of Rennes