A Procura da Verdade Oculta: Textos Filosóficos e Esotéricos

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O Estádio Filosófico

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philosophy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaphysics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology

O Estádio Neopagão

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neopaganism

O Estádio Gnóstico

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiritism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeticism
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occult_science
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freemasonry
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucianism


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Os Segredos da Alquimia

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O Pequeno Grande Livro da Alquimia

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http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/160869.Francis_Melville
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O Fantástico Mundo da Alquimia

Author Bio Article
(In french. If you don't understand, use Google Translator - Although the translation is always kinda bad... But i'm sure you know better sites for that matter...):


Carole Sédillot est une pédagogue jungienne.


Elle est conférencière, formatrice en symbolique et mythologie. Elle œuvre à une diffusion de la psychologie jungienne, mieux nommée psychologie des profondeurs. On la dit "jungienne" car cette psychologie a été fondée par Carl Gustav Jung (1875 - 1961).

Elle est l'auteur d'une douzaine d'ouvrages dans ce domaine et elle a donné des conférences en France et à l'étranger qui l'on fait connaître auprès du grand public.


Ecrits

La figure de l'homme primitif et son analyse


Carole Sédillot dans son ouvrage, " La quête du soi : les 12 travaux d'Hercule", Éditeur Dervy, 11 juin 2007, a mené une recherche de sens sur cette représentation, en particulier au travers de celle de Hercule.

Cette dénomination d' homme primitif est issue de la psychologie analytique pour désigner des processus psychiques inconscients, ayant une importance dans la vie psychique du sujet. Ces processus se nomment des archétypes.

« ... L'objectif de cet ouvrage consiste à mettre en parallèle, d'une manière nouvelle et originale, l'aventure mythique d'Hercule et ses 12 Travaux avec le fonctionnement du processus d'individuation initié par Carl Gustav Jung[1]. »

Pour rappel, Héraclès (en grec ancien Ἡρακλῆς / Hêraklễs), de son premier nom Alcide, fils de Zeus et d’une mortelle, est un des héros les plus vénérés de la Grèce antique.

La mythologie grecque lui prête un très grand nombre d’aventures qui le voient voyager à travers le monde connu des Doriens puis de toute la Méditerranée à partir de l’expansion de la grande Grèce, jusqu’aux Enfers, et dont les plus célèbres sont les douze travaux, qui ne représentent pourtant qu’une petite part de sa geste héroïque.

Il correspond à l’Hercule romain.

Selon Carole Sédillot le travail sur soi est une quête au cours de laquelle, le patient rencontre de multiples épreuves :

« ... La rencontre avec soi-même et son évolution s'accomplissent symboliquement par les épreuves, les affrontements et les victoires vécus par le héros, auquel chacun peut s'identifier. Jung a expliqué ce processus, menant à la réalisation du moi en Quête du Soi, en le juxtaposant avec, entre autres domaines, l'alchimie et le mandala.

La personnalité d'Hercule, demi-dieu qui gagne son immortalité, dans sa perspective humaine et divine, se prête à tout individu en recherche d'équilibre psychique et d'harmonie intérieure. Le parcours éprouvant qu'il choisit, en effectuant les 12 Travaux, reflète sa volonté de vivre l'expérience intime de la découverte du moi profond par la confrontation avec sa part la plus obscure, révélatrice des contenus inconscients.

La structure, les lieux, les animaux, les adversaires et les types de combats exposés dans les 12 Travaux s'associent étonnamment avec les concepts jungiens : persona, ombre, anima-animus, Soi... et offrent la possibilité de porter un regard différent sur l'épopée du héros et sur son objectif[1]. »

Pour rappel, l' homme primitif est présent dans l'animus principalement de la masculinité de la femme il est ce que l'on nomme un archétype.

Les images et pensées psychiques associées et à laquelle s'identifie la femme, tout entièrement ou en partie le sont au travers des positions intellectuelles, psychiques, d'émotions, d'actions qui renvoient inconsciemment à un modèle auquel il faudrait se tenir : un homme primitif ou en rapport a un homme primitif.

Cet "homme" est proche de modèle culturel tels que : tarzan, de l'athlète, de Dionysos ou évidemment : Héraclès (Hercule).


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A Essência da Alquimia

Mini-Bio Obituário do Autor:

Falecimento do Rev. Murillo Nunes de Azevedo


É com pesar que informo o falecimento do Rev. Murillo Nunes de Azevedo, um dos pioneiros do Buddhismo no Brasil. Eis a nota escrita pelo Rev. Ricardo Mário Gonçalves:

Caríssimos Irmãos no Dharma,

Com o coração consternado, estou cumprindo o doloroso dever de vos dar ciência do Regresso à Terra Pura Ocidental do Buddha Amitabha de um dos mais ilustres pioneiros da propagação do Dharma no Brasil, o Rev. Murillo Nunes de Azevedo, Ministro do Dharma da Verdadeira Escola da Terra Pura, Ramo Honpa (Nishi Hongwanji).Conheci o Rev. Murillo em 1965, quando ele já era conhecido como o primeiro divulgador do Budismo Zen no Rio de Janeiro, por ter publicado a tradução brasileira do livro "Introdução ao Zen Budismo" de Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki. Foi ele o primeiro brasileiro a entrevistar Sua Santidade o Dalai Lama. Em 1969, colaborou com o Museu de Arte e Arqueologia da USP na montagem da primera exposição de arte budista tibetana realizada em nosso país. Fundou a Sociedade Budista do Brasil, que se tornou posteriormente a primeira organização a representar o Budismo Theravada em nossa terra. Ministrou cursos de Introdução ao Pensamento Oriental e ao Budismo na PUC - Rio e outras universidades, no rio e em Brasília.Colaborou com as Escolas Soto Zen e Shingon e posteriormente tornou-se Ministro do Dharma do Honpa Hiongwanji, tendo atuado por vários anos no Templo do Honpa em Brasília. Escreveu vários livros sobre o Dharma, dentre os quais destado "O ôlho do Furacão" e "O Paraíso é Aqui".

Texto retirado de Folhas no Caminho (blog)

Site da editora do livro Pensamento-Cultrix

A Tradição Hermética

The Author of the Book:

Barone Giulio Cesare Andrea Evola (May 19, 1898 – June 11, 1974) also known as Julius Evola, was an Italian philosopher and esotericist. Evola regarded his stances and spiritual values as aristocratic, masculine, traditionalist, heroic and defiantly reactionary.


Evola believed that mankind is living in the Kali Yuga, a Dark Age of unleashed materialistic appetites, spiritual oblivion and organised deviancy. To counter this and call in a primordial rebirth, Evola presented his world of Tradition. The core trilogy of Evola's works are generally regarded as Revolt Against the Modern World, Men Among the Ruins and Ride the Tiger. According to one scholar, "Evola’s thought can be considered one of the most radically and consistently antiegalitarian, antiliberal, antidemocratic, and antipopular systems in the twentieth century."[1] Much of Evola's theories and writings are centred on spiritualism and mysticism; the inner life. He authored books covering themes such as Hermeticism, the metaphysics of war and of sex, Tantra, Buddhism, Taoism, mountaineering, the Holy Grail, the essence and history of civilisations, decadence and various philosophic and religious Traditions dealing with both the Classics and the Orient.

Though never a member of the National Fascist Party itself, or advocate of the term to describe his stances — Evola regarded his position as that of a sympathetic right-wing intellectual, who saw potential in the movement and wished to guide or reform its errors through criticism, to a position inline with his own views. One of his successes was in regards to the racial laws; his advocation of a spiritual consideration of race won out in the debate in Italy, rather than a solely materialist reductionism concept popular in Germany. Since World War II many Radical Traditionalist, New Right, Conservative Revolutionary, Fascist and Third Positionist groups have taken inspiration from him.

This restriction must be kept in mind. What I am about to say does not concern the ordinary man of our day. On the contrary, I have in mind the man who finds himself involved in today's world, even at its most problematic and paroxysmal points; yet he does not belong inwardly to such a world, nor will he give in to it. He feels himself, in essence, as belonging to a different race from that of the overwhelming majority of his contemporaries. -Evola, Ride the Tiger, 1961


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Re-criações Herméticas

Info Sobre o Autor do Livro:

José Manuel Anes (1944), é professor universitário convidado e Criminalista. Foi Grão mestre da GLLP.

Licenciado em Química na Faculdade de Ciências de Lisboa, nos anos 70, trabalhou em Investigação científica no Laboratório de Química Física e Radioquímica, tendo feito uma Pós-graduação como bolseiro nesse domínio, em Madrid, no "Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas e na Universidade Complutense". Doutoramento em Antropologia Social e Cultural na Área da Antropologia da Religião, Novos Movimentos Religiosos, na Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa em 2009. É Sócio Honorário do MIL: Movimento Internacional Lusófono.

Biografia

Foi Docente de Biomatemática em 1976-77 na Faculdade de Medicina de Lisboa e ingressou, em 1978, nos quadros do Laboratório de Polícia Científica da Polícia Judiciária (LPC/PJ), como Perito Superior de Criminalística, tendo desenvolvido a área de Análise de Vestígios diversos – incluindo os de explosões. No LPC/PJ (onde esteve durante cerca de 20 anos) investigou vários casos relacionados com explosivos, entre os quais os atentados das FP-25 e o “caso Camarate” tendo, no âmbito deste último, coordenado duas Comissões de Inquérito na Assembleia da República. Está reformado da Função Pública, desde 1997.

Foi, desde o ano lectivo de 1986/87 até ao de 2004/05, Docente Convidado do Departamento de Antropologia da Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas da Universidade Nova de Lisboa/FCSH-UNL (e também do seu Departamento de Ciência Política e Relações Internacionais), onde leccionou na área dos Métodos Quantitativos e, nos últimos anos, Antropologia da Religião.

É também Docente, desde 1998, no Instituto de Sociologia e Etnologia das Religiões (ISER) da mesma Faculdade, de cursos na área dos Novos Movimentos Religiosos e Espiritualidades Alternativas – sendo Doutorando nestas áreas. Tem um artigo, sobre este tema, a publicar ainda este ano, num número especial dedicado às Religiões, da revista “Fórum Sociológico” (do ISER/FCSH).

É um especialista de Correntes Esotéricas Ocidentais, sendo membro da ESSWE- European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism, dirigida pelos Profs. Wouter Hanegraaff (Univ. Amsterdão) e Antoine Faivre (Jubilado da EPHE-Sorbonne).

Escreveu prefácios para vários livros, os últimos dos quais para “O Pensamento Maçónico de Fernando Pessoa” de Jorge de Matos (Sete Caminhos, Lisboa, 2006) e “La Franc-Maçonnerie comme Voie d’Éveil” de Rémi Boyer (Rafael de Surtis/Éditinter, Monts, França, 2006).

Para além da sua formação em Criminalística, desde 1999, tem-se dedicado também, no quadro da Socio-Antropologia, particularmente no domínio do estudo da Violência em “Seitas” e grupos religiosos radicais, tem sido Docente de cursos sobre Violência Religiosa e Terrorismo Religioso, quer no ISER, a partir de 2001, quer já em 2006, na Reitoria da Universidade (Clássica) de Lisboa, na Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa e na Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Nova de Lisboa, num curso de Pós-graduação e Mestrado em Estudos Avançados de Segurança e Direito, onde lecciona as cadeiras de Violência Religiosa e de Criminalística. É co-autor no livro “As Teias do Terror” (Ésquilo, 2006).

É (desde 2004) Vice-Presidente do OSCOT- Observatório de Segurança, Crime Organizado e Terrorismo (Presidido pelo Dr. Rui Pereira) e Director da revista para o grande público, intitulada “Segurança e Defesa”, e cujo conselho editorial integra, Rui Pereira, Ângelo Correia, José Lamego, entre outros.

É presidente do Conselho Directivo do OSCOT- Observatório de Segurança, Crime Organizado e Terrorismo desde 20 de Janeiro de 2010.

É professor de Criminalistica e Metodologia da Investigação Criminal do curso de Criminologia na Universidade Lusíada do Porto.

Publicações
 
"Re-creações Herméticas", Hugin ed., Lisboa, 1º. ed. 1996, 2ª. ed. 1997.

“Re-criações herméticas – II – Lisboa, Hugin, 2004.

“Fernando Pessoa e os Mundos Esotéricos” – Lisboa, Ésquilo, 1ª. E 2ª. Eds., 2004.

“Os Jardins Iniciáticos da Quinta da Regaleira” – Lisboa, Ésquilo, 2005.

Co-autoria, de entre as quais “As Tentações de Bosh e o Eterno Retorno”, Lisboa, Museu de Arte Antiga, 1994.

“Poesia e Ciência”, Lisboa, Cosmos/GUELF, 1994.

“Caos e Meta-Psicologia”, Lisboa, Fenda/ISPA, 1994, “Religião e ideal maçónico”, Lisboa, ISER, 1994.

“Seminário sobre Newton”, Évora, Universidade de Évora/CEHFC, 1995.

"Masoneria y religión", Madrid, Ed. Complutense, 1996.

“A Vivência do Sagrado”, Lisboa, Hugin, 1998.

“A Quinta da Regaleira: história, símbolo e mito”, Fundação Cultursintra, 1998.

“Portugal Misterioso”, Lisboa, SRD, 1998.

"L'Âme secrète du Portugal", Paris, L'Originel, nº 9, 2000.

“L’Homme à venir - Mémoire du XXe.siècle – nº.2”, Paris, Rocher, 2000.

“Discursos e práticas alquímicas - I”, Lisboa, Hugin/CICTSUL, 2001.

“Esoterismo e Humanidades” – Colibri/Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa, 2001.

“Discursos e práticas alquímicas – II” – Lisboa, Hugin/CICTSUL, 2002.

“O Homem do futuro – um ser em construção” – São Paulo –Br., Triom/USP, 2002.

“A Creação – La Création” – Lisboa, Atalaia/Intermundos, 2003.

“Le Sacré aujourd’hui – Paris, Éditions du Rocher, 2003.

“Templiers: les yeux du Baphomet” – Monts (Fr.), Rafael de Surtis/Editinter, 2004.

Extratos Retirados Daqui: http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Manuel_Anes

Coletânea Hermética

Related InfoLinks:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wynn_Westcott
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermeticism

Allen Greenfield Selected Works

Info On Allen Greenfield:

Allen H. Greenfield (born 1946), also known by his ecclesiastical name Tau Sir Hasirim, is an American occultist, ceremonial magician, UFOlogist, writer, editor, and Gnostic Bishop of Ecclesia Gnostica Universalis[1] who resides in Atlanta, Georgia. His book The Story of the Hermetic Brotherhood of Light is one of the few sources of information on this subject. His book The Compleat Rite of Memphis is a comprehensive history of an Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry, and he edited an authorized, annotated edition of the work Liber Thirty-One by Charles Stansfeld Jones.

He was elected and consecrated a Bishop by the Holy Synod of the Neopythagorean Gnostic Church in 1986. In 1987 he was extended recognition as a Bishop within the Gnostic Catholic Church - Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) and was consecrated in New York in November 1988.[2] His episcopal title "Tau" is sometimes abbreviated as "T" and prefixed to his legal name, and thus he may also be referred to as T Allen Greenfield. A former editor of the OTO journal LAShTAL, Greenfield has more recently become a critic of the Order's upper management. In February 2006, he called for their resignation and stepped down from all managerial duties in protest, issuing a strong criticism of the current Outer Head of the Order, William Breeze.[3]

A past (elected) member of the Society for Psychical Research and the National Investigations Committee on Aerial Phenomena (from 1960), he has twice been the recipient of the "UFOlogist of the Year Award" of the National UFO Conference (1972 and 1992). He is a Borderland Science Research Associate (BSRA), and has conducted on-site UFO and alien abduction investigations in Brooksville, FL, Pascagoula, MS and Brown Mountain, NC. His book Secret Cipher of the UFOnauts was reviewed by Robert Anton Wilson in his book Everything is Under Control. This review discusses how Greenfield builds on the principles established in Carl Jung's 1952 book, Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Sky. He is also a past President of the Atlanta Science Fiction Organization (ASFOII), and the editor of the periodical The Paraufologist.

He is the father of three sons. His eldest son, Alex Greenfield, is a network television writer and producer.[4]

Quotations

"The future must be built from the best material of past and present, and on the grave of those elements in both which were/are adverse to human life and living." (quoted in Adler, p. 375)

"We are dulled by technological overload." (quoted in Adler, p. 393)

"The scientific establishment is an organized faith that contributes heavily to our present sorry state as a civilization." (quoted in Adler, p. 397)


Extract Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allen_H._Greenfield


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http://www.amazon.com/Secret-Rituals-Black-Allen-Greenfield/dp/1411667646/ref=pd_sim_b_1
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Biosofia

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Thelema

Thelema is a religious[1] philosophy that was developed[2] by the early 20th century British writer and ceremonial magician Aleister Crowley. He believed himself to be the prophet of a new age, the Aeon of Horus,[3] based upon a religious experience that he had in Egypt in 1904.[1] By his account, a possibly non-corporeal being that called itself Aiwass contacted him and dictated a text known as The Book of the Law or Liber AL vel Legis, which outlined the principles of Thelema.[1][4]

Thelema is essentially a polytheistic religion, with the deities adopted from Ancient Egyptian religion, namely Nuit, Hadit and Ra-Hoor-Khuit. The faith follows the idea that the 20th century marked the beginning of the Aeon of Horus, in which a new ethical code would be followed; "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law". This statement indicated that followers, who are known as Thelemites, should seek out and follow their own True Will[5] rather than their ego's desires.[6] The religion also emphasizes the ritual practice of Magick as well as mysticism.

The word "Thelema" itself is the English transliteration of the Koine Greek noun θέλημα: "will", from the verb θέλω: to will, wish, purpose. As Crowley developed the religion, founding an organization known as the A∴A∴ to propagate it,[7] he wrote widely on the topic, producing what are collectively termed the Holy Books of Thelema. He also included into it ideas from occultism, Yoga and both Eastern and Western mysticism, especially the Qabalah.[8]
Thelemites — and other people — have interpreted and applied Crowley’s work in widely different ways,[9] sometimes leading to harsh disagreements.[10][11]


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Temple

A temple (from the Latin word templum) is a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities, such as prayer and sacrifice, or analogous rites. A templum constituted a sacred precinct as defined by a priest, or augur.[1] It has the same root as the word "template," a plan in preparation of the building that was marked out on the ground by the augur. Templa also became associated with the dwelling places of a god or gods. The word "temple" dates to about the 6th century BCE.[2] Despite the specific set of meanings associated with the religion of the ancient Rome, the word has now become quite widely used to describe a house of worship for any number of religions and is even used for time periods prior to the Romans.



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Thoth

Thoth[1] was considered one of the more important deities of the Egyptian pantheon. In art, he was often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon; these animals were sacred to him. His feminine counterpart was Seshat.[2] His chief shrine was located in the city of Khmun,[3] later renamed Hermopolis Magna during the Greco-Roman era[4] (in reference to him through the Greeks' interpretation that he was the same as their god Hermes) and Eshmûnên in the Coptic rendering. In that city, he led the local pantheon of the region known as the Ogdoad, and its eight principal deities. He also had numerous shrines within the cities of Abydos, Hesert, Urit, Per-Ab, Rekhui, Ta-ur, Sep, Hat, Pselket, Talmsis, Antcha-Mutet, Bah, Amen-heri-ab, and Ta-kens.[5]

He was often considered as the heart, which, according to the ancient Egyptians, is the seat of intelligence or the mind, and tongue of the sun god Ra; as well as the means by which Ra's will was translated into speech.[6] He had also been related to the Logos of Plato[6] and the mind of God[7] (see The All). In the Egyptian mythology, he has played many vital and prominent roles in maintaining the universe, including being one of the two deities (the other being Ma'at, who was also his wife) who stood on either side of Ra's boat.[8] Later in ancient Egyptian history, Thoth became heavily associated with the arbitration of godly disputes,[9] the arts of magic, the system of writing, the development of science,[10] and the judgment of the dead.[11]


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