Gaudì. Introduzione alla sua architettura.

Translated from the Spanish by Jack Sage. Foreword by Herbert Read. London, Routledge & Kegan Paul 1962, cm.14,5x22, pp.LIV,400, numerose ill.in bn.nt.e XXXII tavv.in bn.ft., legatura ed.in buckram, titoli in oro al dorso, sopraccop.fig. (due strappetti alla sopraccop.e firma di appartenenza al frontesp.ma copia in buono stato.) Symbolism was an essential part of the ancient art of the Orient and of the mediaeval tradition in the West. It has been lately revived in the study of the unconscious, both directly in the Field of dreams, visions and psychoanalysis, and indirectly in art and poetry. The basic aim of this work is to create a "centre" of general reference for symbological studies by clarifying the under varying essential meaning of every symbol. The author uses the comparative method, specifying the precise sources of information taken from a great number of widely varying fields.

Barcelona, Ediciones Omega 1950, cm.18x24, pp.49,(3), 54 tavv.in bn.ft. e IV tavv. a col.ft. applicate, legatura ed.in mz.tela, titoli al piatto ant. e al dorso, sopraccop. con ill. a col. applicata. (due strappi di ca. 4 cm. alla base della sopraccop.; piccole abrasioni al rivestimento del piatto anteriore.)

A cura di Renzo Fantappiè. Firenze, Polistampa 2000, cm.25x30,5, pp.365, num.figg.bn.e col. legatura ed.soprac.fig.a col.

Roma, Alberto Stock Editore 1924, cm.14,5x20, pp.252, brossura intonso cop.fig. A p.1 dedica autogr. dell'A.

Traduzione in inglese di Umberto Visani. Prato, Aurora Boreale ed. 2024, cm.15x21, pp.98, brossura copertina figurata a colori. Coll.Telesterion. English text. What exactly is ecstasy (from the Greek ??stas??, literally "being outside"), that psychic state of suspension and mystical elevation of the mind, which is perceived by those who experience it intensely as "estranged" from the body? What are its links with Philosophy (to be understood as Sacred Knowledge or as love for Divine Wisdom) and above all with mystical death and the initiatory experience of the ancient Mysteries? What is thought and how to control it to rise to higher levels of consciousness? All the great initiatory schools of the past taught that one must die and be reborn in order to then ascend. But can this ascension be comparable to Philosophical Ecstasy? Great philosophers of antiquity, from Plotinus to Porphyry, spoke to us about the experience of Philosophical Ecstasy as a reunion with the Absolute, with the Supreme End. And what if it also and above all involved a full connection with the Anima Mundi or with the Akashic Records? From Giordano Bruno to Tommaso Campanella, up to Arturo Reghini and Amedeo Rocco Armentano, some authentic Initiates have attempted to answer these questions.