Tommaso Palamidessi - Knowledge (XXG)

630:(tr.: Icon, Colours and Artistic Ascesis) (published posthumously in 1986) is a real handbook which aims at starting the reader off on the personal preparation of a sacred icon and on meditating on it. By following the rules of the chromatic symbolism as well as the traditional geometry of sacred art, the artist can make of his own icon a "castle of meditation", by which he transcends the formal aspect of the image and becomes sensitive to the divine archetypes hidden behind it. In this sense the icon has a sanctifying effect on the conscience of the artist. 610:(Techniques of Initiatic Awakening) (Ed.Mediterranee 1975) Palamidessi presents a program of integral ascesis where techniques of meditation on the centres of force and on the divine names on the one hand, an intense inner life devoted to transcendence, on the other and finally a cautious use of astral influences in order to determine the most convenient moments for the ascetic practices, converge on the unique purpose of granting a spiritual regeneration in a Christic sense. 563:

his and others' caducity from birth to death. It holds that philosophy was born when man lost his spiritual contact with the Absolute or Arkè, that is as soon as his dialogue and life of union with God became increasingly obfuscated, fragmentary and doubtful. Philosophy became, in a sense, the instrument for formulating the working hypothesis, the theoretical way to return to the Arkè, full of strident contradictions.

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that explains the origin and the end of man and of the cosmos of which he is a part, but it is first of all a pure experimental method; it never loses sight of the fact that philosophy has been the surrogate, often unreliable, for the moral and intellectual support of man, who watches impotently at

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In the following years, he journeyed to India, Kashmir, Nepal, China, and South America, but from 1968 forth his efforts were focused on the archeosophical doctrine and to the organisation of groups of study and experimentation spread over Italy. Then in 1973 he founded a cultural association called

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Towards the end of the 1940s, Palamidessi began to teach astrology and yoga. He became one of the primary Italian astrological authors of the 1900s. In the catalogue of the National Library Service, only six treatises of astrology written by Italian authors appear from 1900 to 1939. For the most

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The archeosophical ascesis aims at solving the religious problem of a correction of human life that does not rely on either one's whim or on chance, but on techniques of spiritual awakening and interior transmutation. The program includes special gymnastics, breathing techniques, psycho-dynamic

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actions on hormones and nerve plexus in order to ascend to what corresponds to body and, though not being body, makes up the whole of the energetic bodies permeating the organic one with the purpose of finally reaching the causal body where the immortal I resides.

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In Italy during the 1900s the first volumes were dedicated to two disciplines: world astrology and medical astrology. At the time, Palamidessi established contacts with exponents of the Hamburg Astrologic School, to whom he dedicated an article in the journal

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Therefore Archeosophy, before being a philosophy, is continuous experimentation, deep knowledge of ourselves (gnosis), of nature and of God; it is the reinstatement in the Primordial Tradition, as a true, real and living contact with the supersensible

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In 1947 Tommaso Palamidessi married Rosa Francesca Bordino (1916–1999), with whom he had a daughter, Silvestra (1948–1996). In 1949 a spiritual crisis drove him to convert to Christianity and consequently he decided to suspend his yoga publications.

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Palamidessi was born in Pisa on 16 February 1915 to Carlo Palamidessi, an army officer, and Luigia Tagliata, a poet. In 1920, Palamidessi moved to Sicily. As a child, he studied

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Il Cappello del mago.I nuovi movimenti magici, dallo spiritismo al satanismo, Milan: Sugarco, 1990, p. 330-332 (French translation: La magie: les nouveaux mouvements magiques,

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or "inner knowledge of one's heart) and exercises of remembrance of some past lives are part of the itinerary of self-awareness and of the journey towards God. suggested by

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In Alexandria, Egypt he visited archaeological sites that he claimed to have already seen during his paranormal experiences, by which he had remembered to have been

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these are general introductions and often mixed with chiromancy, physiognomy and occultism. In these years Tommaso Palamidessi wrote six astrological treatises:

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a free school for free scholars, who must not feel like pupils nor apprentices, but brothers who listen to the living voice of other brothers.

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in Rome, which is still active and has several thousand members in Italy and the rest of Europe (mainly in Germany, Portugal, and France).

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A list of sections of the Archeosophical Society in Italy can be seen on the Associazione Archeosofica Site (retrieved on 14 April 2015)

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L'icona, i colori e l'ascesi artistica: dottrina ed esperienze per una Via verso l'autosuperamento ed una coscienza divina nell'arte

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L'icona, i colori e l'ascesi artistica: dottrina ed esperienze per una Via verso l'autosuperamento ed una coscienza divina nell'arte

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A special form of ascesis is carried out through art. Deeply interested in the mystical, theological and artistic tradition of the

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directly linked with the three principles of the immortal Ego (such as the meditation on the heart defined by Palamidessi as

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L'alchimia come via allo spirito: l'autorealizzazione magica e la psicologia del profondo, svelate dalla tradizione ermetica

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in 1957 and Jerusalem in the Easter of 1966, where he allegedly had special revelations on the Mt. Golgotha and in

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La Tentation du secret, Groupes et sociétés initiatiques entre ésotérisme et politique du XVIIIème au XXème siècle

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La Tentation du secret, Groupes et sociétés initiatiques entre ésotérisme et politique du XVIIIème au XXème siècle

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Francesco Baroni, "Julius Evola e Tommaso Palamidessi. Con una lettera inedita di Julius Evola", 2009 (

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Il Corso degli astri e le malattie nell'uomo: trattato teorico-pratico di cosmopatogenesi con 22 figure

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Another important key for the mystic and initiatic self-realisation included in the ascetic program of

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La potenza erotica di kundalini yoga: lo yoga del potere serpentino ed il risveglio dei ventuno chakra

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It is a call addressed to all, and it does not matter if they belong to the different communities (

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and the study of hieroglyphs, the latter carried out in collaboration with the director of the

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Lo yoga per non morire: metodi sperimentali indù per realizzare l'immortalità autocosciente

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In 1953 he moved to Rome with his family and contributed to various newspapers including

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Archeosophy is the integral knowledge, it is the archaic wisdom or, in other words, the

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Tecniche di risveglio iniziatico: i centri di forza e la metafisica sperimentale

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Tecniche di risveglio iniziatico: i centri di forza e la metafisica sperimentale

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Tecniche di risveglio iniziatico: i centri di forza e la metafisica sperimentale

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until 1969, when the magazine ceased publication. He visited the monasteries of

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