Knowledge of the Symbol E-Book

Arturo Reghini

• Herausgeber: Edizioni Aurora Boreale
• Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2022

Beschreibung

Arturo Reghini understood not only the distinction between the authentic Western Tradition and its degenerations and contaminations, but also that between the initiatory and traditional Freemasonry of the origins and the modernistic and pseudo-initiatory Freemasonry of his time, devoted to a generic “progress of humanity” at the expense of the personal/individual initiatory elevation of its members. He was determined to give battle to contribute to a return of the free-masonry institution to its most ancient and authentic origins.
Arturo Reghini, as a Freemason and as a Pythagorean, was undoubtedly a master of Symbology. And his essay Knowledge of the Symbol, published for the first time in 1927 in the magazine Ur, still constitutes a milestone for the study of Symbology and its deeper meanings.
An authentic initiate cannot fail to know the secrets of Symbology, because symbols are everywhere around us. We see them, we perceive them in every moment of our life, and they speak to us, they are not mute. We only have to listen to their voice and interpret their messages. The studies of Arturo Reghini can be of great help in this great and infinite journey.

Leseprobe

Τεληστήριον

ARTURO REGHINI

KNOWLEDGE

OF THE SYMBOL

Edizioni Aurora Boreale

Title: Knowledge of the Symbol

Author: Arturo Reghini

Publishing Series: Telestèrion

With a preface by Nicola Bizzi and an appendix by Stella Picarò

English translation by Stella Picarò

ISBN e-book version: 979-12-5504-078-1

Cover image: Piero Di Cosimo: The Myth of Prometheus, 1515

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ARTURO REGHINI, A MASTER AND A GIANT OF WESTERN INITIATORY TRADITION

By Nicola Bizzi

As the Italian scholar Moreno Neri rightly stated in his books, it is always good to keep alive the memory of Arturo Reghini and it is even more excellent to re-propose his writings, as drinking water from Italic spring is not only healthy but decisive for to have the right point of spiritual orientation in one’s inner search.

Reading the works of Arturo Reghini - Pythagoricus Latomusque Insignis (Pythagorean and distinguished Freemason), as his tombstone is engraved in the Budrio cemetery - cannot fail to remind us how he was an absolute giant of Western initiatory thought, a giant whose memory today he is inexplicably clouded and neglected, also and above all in that free-masonry environment which would also have the moral duty not only to remember and rediscover him every day, but to treasure his studies and his precious teachings. But precisely in certain areas, which still owe him so much today, his figure is today considered “uncomfortable” or “cumbersome” and is therefore wronged by not remembering it, condemning it to a sort of tacit damnatio memoriae. But why does this happen?

Perhaps because Arturo Reghini, better than anyone else in his time, was able to attack a certain model of post-Enlightenment Freemasonry, a Freemasonry no longer having as its goal the perfection of man, of the single man (on the basis of a real individual initiatory process and interior), but the more generic one of humanity as a whole, of the human “collectivity”, a Freemasonry transformed into a reconciliation halfway between a ramshackle “army of salvation” or a charitable association, and a mere business circle more interested in political and social issues than in initiatory elevation. A Freemasonry in which, as he rightly denounced in his writings, «the perfection of the individual is inexorably placed in the background, if not neglected, forgotten and ignored».

Or perhaps because for Reghini the concept of Imperium implied the firm will to restore those principles of serene tolerance of all cults (an essential feature of Roman nature, understood as the authentic root of European culture), suffocated by the affirmation of intolerance brought by monotheistic faiths. In fact, with the philological tools of his time, as the great French initiate Jean Marie Ragon knew how to do a century before him, he was able to demonstrate in his writings how Freemasonry derives its origin from the ancient Mystery Traditions, and from that Pythagorean in particular.

Or perhaps, again, because Reghini had the undisputed merit, with his 1928 essay Sulla Tradizione Occidentale (On the Western Tradition), of being the first intellectual of the twentieth century to affirm with courage and determination the clear alienation of Christian doctrine from the context of the most authentic Spiritual tradition of the West. And he did it as authors of the caliber of Julius Evola and René Guénon were unable to do it completely, for different reasons.

Arturo Reghini understood not only the distinction between the authentic Western Tradition and its degenerations and contaminations, but also that between the initiatory and traditional Freemasonry of the origins and the modernistic-Enlightenment and pseudo-initiatory Freemasonry of his time (and, unfortunately, also of ours), devoted to a generic “progress of humanity” at the expense of the personal/individual initiatory elevation of its members. This great Florentine initiate was determined to give battle to contribute to a return of the free-masonry institution to its most ancient and authentic origins.

Arturo Reghini, as a Freemason and as a Pythagorean, was undoubtedly a master of Symbology. And his essay Knowledge of the Symbol, published for the first time in 1927 in the magazine Ur, still constitutes a milestone for the study of Symbology and its deeper meanings.

I firmly believe that an authentic initiate cannot fail to know the secrets of Symbology, because symbols are everywhere around us. We see them, we perceive them in every moment of our life, and they speak to us, they are not mute. It is up to us to know how to listen to their voice and interpret their messages. The studies of Arturo Reghini can be of great help in this great and infinite journey.

I want to publicly thank my friend and scholar of Esotericism Stella Picarò for her English translation of Arturo Reghini’s essay. A very important work, which will contribute to making the thought and ideas of this great Master known on a more international level.

Stella Picarò is also the author of the second appendix of this book, entitled Let there be light on the Luz, and of the English translation of the first appendix, the Life of Arturo Reghini by Giulio Parise. This short but profound and inspiring biography of Arturo Reghini that we present today to our English-speaking readers was written in 1947 by Giulio Parise, a close friend and main collaborator and disciple of the great Florentine initiate. It was published by Parise the same year in the magazine of initiatory studies Mondo Occulto (Occult World), a few months after the death of its Master.

Giulio Parise (born in Vicenza on February 27, 1902 and died in Rome on June 27, 1969) was an Italian teacher, esotericist and freemason. He was one of the protagonists of that Italian cultural area which, in the first three decades of the twentieth century, worked for the rediscovery of occultism and the genuine Italian initiatory tradition. He was one of the co-founders of the Ur Group along with Julius Evola and Arturo Reghini.