I predatori del manoscritto perduto. Alla ricerca della Germania di Tacito.

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.

Prato, Aurora Boreale Ed. 2021, cm.15x21,5, pp.616,ill.bn.col.nt. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Coll.Telesterion. Questo nuovo saggio di Nicola Bizzi, frutto di anni di ricerche, potrebbe essere definito un viaggio nella scienza. Ma non in quella scienza "laica" - allo stesso tempo materialista e dogmatica - che affonda le proprie radici nell'Illuminismo settecentesco, bensì in quella autentica antica Sapienza, che l'autore, libero muratore e iniziato ai misteri eleusini, conosce piuttosto bene. Quegli antichi eruditi e ricercatori che la moderna cultura definisce asetticamente "scienziati", non solo appartenevano a quella élite colta alla quale solitamente rivolgevano i propri insegnamenti, ma erano anche e soprattutto dei grandi iniziati. Nell'antichità, infatti, non esisteva una netta separazione tra ricerca spirituale e ricerca scientifica. Esisteva una Conoscenza realmente onnicomprensiva che si fondava principalmente sulla matematica, sull'astronomia e sulla geografia, ed attraverso di essa gli antichi popoli mediterranei perfezionarono le tecniche di costruzione delle navi e l'arte della navigazione, arrivando ad esplorare tutto il mondo. A tali popoli era ben nota quindi l'esistenza di un grande continente al di là dell'Oceano Atlantico, che a più riprese visitarono e colonizzarono.

Prato, Aurora Boreale Ed. 2022, cm.15x21, pp.58,ill.col.nt. brossura copertina figurata a colori. Coll.Telesterion. The long history of the European, Mediterranean, and Near Eastern religious experience, since the most remote ages, has been characterized by the presence and diffusion of mystery religions. These were marked by a common order, a general rule, consisting in the fact that all the beliefs of the cult, the foundational myths, the religious practices, and the nature of the teachings and the revelatory message of the Gods, they all had to be reserved, with different ranks, to the initiates, who have become part of an exclusive community of new men. Thus, the initiated were distinguished from the uninitiated, those who could not have access to the Mysteries. The initiated, as such, had to keep a solemn oath and were obliged to make a vow of silence, they could not reveal the secrets, which had to remain unspeakable. Many were the mystery religions, but, historically, the primacy and superiority of Eleusinian Mysteries can be well summarized by a passage offered by Plutarch: «…and all the men whose land he visited, how he met with holy writings and was initiated into all the mysteries, it would take more than one day to enumerate as he did, well and carefully in all details...».

Prato, Aurora Boreale 2020, cm.14,8x21, pp.142, brossura. Collana Telestérion. Testo in Inglese